Umbreit (book wholesaler)

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Bez & Roth GmbH & Co. KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding October 15, 1912
Seat Bietigheim-Bissingen , Germany
management Thomas Bez
Number of employees 315
sales EUR 106.94 million
Branch Intermediate book trade ( bar assortment )
Website www.umbreit.de
As of December 31, 2017

Umbreit (holding company: Bez & Roth GmbH & Co. KG), based in Bietigheim-Bissingen, is the third largest book wholesaler ( bar range ) in Germany with a market share of around 9 to 10%.

The company has over 300 employees and an annual turnover of around 107 million euros.

New building with offices and warehouse for G. Umbreit GmbH & Co. KG
View of the Umbreit storage shelves
Umbreit book truck service truck

history

The company's origins go back to 1895 when the publisher Carl Malcomes founded a wholesale and commission business. With the entry of the Leipzig bookseller Gustav Umbreit (* October 6, 1879; † June 2, 1957) as a managing partner, the company was renamed Süddeutsche Grosso-Buchhandlung G. Umbreit & Co in 1912 , followed by Gustav Umbreit's brother-in-law Ernst Bez in 1922 Partner added. When Susanne Bez joined the company in 2011, after Ernst Bez, Max Bez (joined 1957) and Thomas Bez (joined 1976), the fourth generation of the Bez family was active in the management of Umbreit . On January 1, 2019, Solvey Munk and Norbert Udroiu were promoted to the management and now belong to it alongside Susanne Bez and Jürgen Niessen.

For decades the company was based in Stuttgart (Calwer Straße), in 1969 it moved to Maybachstraße in the city center. Due to the steady growth of the company, G. Umbreit GmbH & Co. KG relocated the press wholesale to the green field in Bietigheim-Bissingen north of Stuttgart in 1980 ; in 1987/88 the bar range and the head office followed suit.

In 2009, the company sold the Fleischhauer & Spohn publishing house (founded in Reutlingen in 1830 ), which Gustav Umbreit had acquired in 1918, to the Silberburg publishing house in Tübingen , and in the same year Umbreit took over the Hamburg company Petersen Buchimport GmbH .

The company's own press wholesaling division with sales territory in the north-east of Baden-Württemberg merged with two other press sales companies on May 1, 2015 to form Frankenthaler Pressevertrieb GmbH & Co. KG, based in Frankenthal (Palatinate) .

Since the joint venture of the companies Umbreit and Brockhaus / Commission ( Kornwestheim ) in business Verlagsauslieferung under the umbrella of Brockhaus / Commission on 1 July 2015, focused Umbreit exclusively to the work as a book wholesaler.

Umbreit is a member of the German Book Trade Association .

Fields of activity

The delivery area for the bar range includes Germany , Luxembourg and, since November 2013, Switzerland , too . Umbreit operates its own collection of books . Most of the customers come from the owner-managed and independent book trade, and there is also close cooperation with the book trade cooperative LG Buch ( Munich ). Umbreit has around 400,000 stock titles (books, nonbooks , games and DVDs ) and has been in the directory of available books since 1972 . The own Umbreit title catalog can be integrated into many merchandise management systems via a web interface or local database connection.

Central school book management

Umbreit Buchhandlungen was the first bar assortment to offer the service of central processing of public school book orders: if requested by the ordering bookseller, Umbreit can deliver directly to schools.

Industry software

The BoNus merchandise management system , developed by SoftLevel GmbH ( Zwönitz ) and previously distributed by the company itself, has been offered since 2006 . Two years later Umbreit began to organize regular user meetings in Bietigheim-Bissingen for users. The modular software BoNus Start was developed for bookstores that initially do not want to work with a closed merchandise management system. A web shop solution has been available for the bookstores' websites since 2008 and a download application for audio books and e-books since 2009 .

Digital bar range

The technical basis of Umbreit's digital bar range is the central e-book download platform "ceebo" from Media Control . Umbreit integrates all e-books of the bar range with the titles provided by publishers on "ceebo" in its web shops and ordering applications, so that the sale of e-books by the bookstore with all subsequent business processes in the known processes (granting of discounts, electronic delivery note, etc. ) is integrated between the bookstore and the bar range.
In the area of e-readers, Umbreit cooperates with PocketBook , for which a separate reader shop has been developed. All wlan-capable PocketBook e-readers purchased through Umbreit are automatically delivered with this shop and connected to the respective bookstore. The bookstore is the sole contractual partner of the end customer for all of Umbreit's e-book offers .

Award

The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs and Caritas awarded the Umbreit bar range the title “Socially committed 2009”.

Trivia

  • The industry magazine BuchMarkt publishes the bestseller bar assortments identified by Umbreit in the areas of fiction , non-fiction and children's and young people's books on a monthly basis .
  • As a book wholesaler, Umbreit sends around 130,000 invoices per year. Since the switch to electronically signed invoices in April 2008, only around 40% of invoices have left the company by post.
  • In 2007, one of the largest photovoltaic systems in the region with a capacity of 135.1 kWp was installed on the flat roof of the company building in Höpfigheimer Strasse .

literature

  • K. Gutzmer: G. Umbreit GmbH & Co. KG. In: Lexicon of the entire book system , Vol. 7, Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2007, p. 567, ISBN 978-3-7772-0716-2 .
  • Thomas Bez: intermediate book trade. In: The Stuttgart book trade in the 20th century. Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1997, pp. 91-114, ISBN 3-932001-00-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b K. Gutzmer: G. Umbreit GmbH & Co. KG. In: Lexicon of the entire book system , Vol. 7, Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2007, p. 567.
  2. ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2017 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  3. ↑ Jo Volks: Focus on the range of bars. In: Buchmarkt , May 2004, pp. 22–25, here p. 22. PDF 68 KB .
  4. ↑ a b Silke Huber: Practical example : digital invoice dispatch at G. Umbreit GmbH & Co. KG , July 10, 2008. PDF , 375 KB
  5. ↑ Umbreit: With Susanne Bez, the fourth generation joins the company , dnv-online from November 2nd, 2011
  6. ↑ https://www.buchmarkt.de/mektiven/umbreit-erweitert-geschaeftsleitung/
  7. ^ [1] Company history according to umbreit.de, accessed on January 2, 2012
  8. ↑ Silberburg-Verlag buys Fleischhauer & Spohn . Buchmarkt.de, May 12, 2009
  9. ↑ Umbreit takes over Petersen , boersenblatt.net, July 31, 2009
  10. ↑ http://www.umbreit.de/unternehmen/wir-ueber-uns.html , accessed on October 12, 2015
  11. ↑ http://www.brocom.de/fileadmin/user_upload/jv_bro_umbreit_112014.pdf , brocom homepage, accessed on October 12, 2015
  12. ↑ http://www.umbreit.de/unternehmen/wir-ueber-uns.html , accessed on October 12, 2015
  13. ↑ Umbreit delivers to Switzerland
  14. ^ LG book: Sales partner Umbreit ( Memento from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ UmbreitKatalog on the company website, retrieved 2 January 2012 ( Memento of 6 January 2012 at the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Verena Brandenberg: Legal and economic aspects of publishing school books - with a case study on the Bavarian admission procedure. (Everything book. Studies of Erlanger Book Studies 18), 2006, ISBN 3-9809664-8-8 , PDF ( Memento from July 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 873 KB, p. 71 ff.
  17. ↑ boersenverein.de, detailed description: BoNus-Warenwirtschaft
  18. ↑ First user meeting of BoNus ERP at Umbreit . Buchmarkt.de, June 13, 2008
  19. ↑ boersenverein.de, detailed description: BoNus Start
  20. ↑ UmbreitLoad book trade platform expands its range to include e-books from the Holtzbrinck and Random House publishing groups , Buchmarkt.de, September 12, 2009
  21. ↑ Umbreit bar range and Diderot Media launch “UmbreitLoad” as a sales solution for e-books, videos and audio books , Buchmarkt.de, March 10, 2009
  22. ↑ Digital bar range - sales of e-books in bookstores ( Memento from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Company homepage, accessed on December 22, 2014
  23. ↑ - Update enables mobile commerce buchreport.de, accessed on December 22, 2014
  24. ↑ Pocketbook Readershop company homepage , accessed December 22, 2014
  25. ↑ Umbreit receives the title “Socially committed 2009” . Buchmarkt.de, June 24, 2009
  26. ↑ Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels - Glossary: ​​Keyword market information
  27. ↑ Umbreit GmbH: EVIATEC Sign as a new solution for sending invoices - EVIATEC Systems AG, Ludwigsburg
  28. ↑ Photovoltaic system on the Umbreit building ( Memento from September 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

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