Rethmann

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RETHMANN SE & Co. KG

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legal form SE & Co. KG
founding 1934 (since 1989 as Rethmann AG & Co. KG and 2014 as Rethmann SE & Co. KG)
Seat Selm , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Martin Rethmann, Chairman of the Supervisory Board; Klemens Rethmann, board spokesman
Number of employees 78,000
sales 15.4 billion euros (Group)
Branch Logistics, recycling, service, water, public transport / SPNV
Website www.rethmann-gruppe.de
As of August 30, 2019

The Rethmann SE & Co. KG is the parent company of the internationally active company groups Remondis (recycling, servicing, water), Rhenus (logistics) and Saria (processing of animal by-products and organic residues). The head office has been located at the family company's former headquarters in Selm, Westphalia , since 1934 . The Rethmann SE & Co. KG does not engage in operational activities, but also acts as a pure holding company.

In the ranking of the 500 largest family businesses in Germany by the Wirtschaftsblatt magazine , the company ranks twelfth.

The divisions

The Rethmann Group operates in four corporate groups:

  • The Remondis Group is one of the world's largest private service companies in the water and circular economy. The company's services range from water supply and treatment to the extraction of raw materials to the development of recycling products and the provision of alternative energy sources .
  • The Rhenus Group is one of the leading European logistics service providers and is responsible for the management of supply chains with the business areas of contract logistics , freight logistics, port logistics and public transport .
  • The Saria Group is active in the recycling of animal and vegetable residues as a manufacturer of products for human and animal nutrition , for agriculture , for aquaculture and for industrial applications. Saria also produces new energies and provides services for the agriculture and food industry.
  • The Transdev Group claims to be the world's leading private operator of public transport . In addition to the Rethmann Group, the shareholder is the French state-owned financial institution Caisse des Dépôts .

Company history

In 1934, Josef Rethmann laid the foundation stone for the family business: he took over a rail freight forwarding company and a haulage company that was responsible, among other things, for the ash disposal of some households in Selm. After winning a tender, this contract was extended to the entire city in 1959 - and thus became the foundation of the Remondis Group.

In 1961, Norbert Rethmann (born 1939) took over the management of the family company. In 1977, with the takeover of Gebrüder Schaap KG, the range was expanded for the first time to include the services of today's Saria Bio-Industries AG . In 1992, Norbert Rethmann transferred almost all of the company shares to his four sons working in the company and moved to become chairman of the supervisory board. Hermann Niehues , who has been with the company since 1978, became CEO. Under his leadership, the group experienced enormous growth after restructuring in divisions and regions. In 1998, with the acquisition of Rhenus AG & Co., the Group's logistics division was further strengthened. When he took office, sales amounted to 800 million marks. In 2007, the Rethmann Group achieved consolidated sales of 7.2 billion euros in all three divisions with 36,100 employees in 41 countries.

After the fatal accident in Niehues in summer 2008, Reinhard Lohmann, who studied business administration, became chairman of the board on October 1, 2008 . Born in 1948 in Lüdenscheid , he has been with the group since 1979, in 1989 he was promoted to Chief Financial Officer and in 1992 to Deputy CEO. The brothers Ludger and Klemens Rethmann complete the three-person committee.

In September 2009, Norbert Rethmann also transferred the remaining four percent of the company shares to his sons and retired to the position of honorary chairman of the supervisory board and his Gut Dessin in Kobrow- Wamckow, Mecklenburg . His youngest son Martin Rethmann, his deputy Peter Nölke and another member of the supervisory board Georg Rethmann became the new chairman of the supervisory board. All three had been part of the then six-member committee since 1999.

In 2010, Rethmann took part in the bidding process for the fifth largest German energy supplier Steag , which was to form the fourth pillar of the group and was to be greatly expanded, but was subject to a municipal holding company of several municipal utilities from the Ruhr area.

On December 31, 2014, Peter Nölke left the Supervisory Board. Also at the end of 2014, Reinhard Lohmann resigned from the Executive Board and was appointed to the Supervisory Board as Deputy Chairman. Martin Rethmann (chairman) and Georg Rethmann will remain the other members of the supervisory board. Klemens Rethmann (board spokesman) and Ludger Rethmann remained on the board.

In October 2018, Rethmann acquired a 34 percent stake in the internationally active transport group Transdev from Veolia . Rethmann's previous transport subsidiary Rhenus Veniro will thus become part of Transdev.

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Individual evidence

  1. Company figures according to the organizational chart of the company group on the company's website, accessed on December 5, 2019.
  2. The largest family businesses in Germany
  3. Generation change in the supervisory board and executive board of the RETHMANN Group completed. (PDF) Rethmann SE & Co. KG, December 19, 2014, accessed on July 25, 2016 .
  4. Torsten Storks: Rethmann invests in the railway market. In: Ruhr Nachrichten (online), October 3, 2018
  5. ↑ The Transdev / Rhenus Veniro merger is apparently imminent . In: Bus & Bahn , January 9, 2019

Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 42.8 "  N , 7 ° 29 ′ 4.7"  E