Utsch AG

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Erich Utsch AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1961
Seat Siegen , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Tilman Schwinn, Dominic Höffgen (Management Board)
Ulrich Waldschmidt (Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
Number of employees 183 at the Siegen site (2018)
sales 35 million euros (2018)
Branch Traffic and identification technology
Website www.utsch.com
Status: February 26, 2020

The Erich Utsch AG is one of the world's leading producers of motor vehicle registration . The company is based in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

The company was founded in 1961 as a small family business by Erich Utsch, who gave the company its name. In the initial phase, a converted wine press was used as the stamping press. In 1969, after the death of his father, Manfred Utsch took over the management of the company. In 2001 Erich Utsch KG was converted into a non-listed stock corporation, the majority of which are family-owned. Today Erich Utsch AG is active in over 130 countries and currently has almost 400 employees in the Utsch Group worldwide.

In 1991 the subsidiary Utsch-Recycling was founded, which specializes in the disposal of end-of-life vehicles and license plates. In the same year Ireland, as a pioneer in the EC, introduced the then new Euro plate. Utsch supplied the sample plates for the government bill and equipped the Irish embossing companies in Ireland with the technical aids.

Since 1995 Erich Utsch AG has been offering labels with additional security features such as national emblems, laser codes, watermarks and holograms to prevent counterfeiting for the international market. In 2002, export sales exceeded domestic sales for the first time.

In 2008, the Egyptian Ministry of Finance in Cairo commissioned Erich Utsch AG with the production and delivery of nine million license plates. The sales volume for this was EUR 24.8 million. After the revolution in Egypt in 2011 , the former members of the government involved in this deal were charged with corruption , as the award was allegedly carried out without a tender and at inflated prices. On July 12, 2011, ex-prime minister Ahmed Nasif, ex-interior minister Habib al-Adli and ex-finance minister Yussuf Butros Ghali were convicted by an Egyptian court in Cairo. In February 2015, Ahmed Nasif and Habib al-Adli were acquitted of the alleged corruption in an appeal process. At the same time, the judgment against a German employee of the license plate manufacturer Utsch was overturned.

Also in 2008, an order worth EUR 8.5 million was signed with the Iraqi government. In another major order with a volume of 20 million euros, Erich Utsch AG delivered four million license plates to Romania from 2009 to 2012.

In 2012 Erich Utsch AG produced around 50 million license plates worldwide.

In 2016 the majority of shares previously owned by Manfred Utsch was sold to a Swedish and an Australian group of companies.

As part of its strategic realignment, Erich Utsch AG acquired the majority of the shares in the Australian LicenSys Pty Ltd. at the end of 2018. ("LicenSys") and became the market leader in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. At the beginning of 2020, Erich Utsch AG entered into a partnership with the British company Hills Numberplates Ltd. Both partners together now form the largest group of companies in the world in the license plate market.

Products

Since the foundation, the core business has been the production of license plates . While initially only the German market was served, the international market was added later. In addition, machines, tools and systems for manufacturing license plates are produced. This includes block and counter pressure tools, embossing presses, hot stamping machines, laminators and laser coding devices.

The automatic embossing press (APP) developed and patented by Utsch enables the computer-controlled, fully automatic production of license plates in large numbers. The previously entered legends for pairs of signs are processed automatically by the system. The APP is used all over the world, for example in the Italian state printing and minting establishment, the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Foggia , labels for all of Italy are produced.

The network-compatible U-Press introduced by Utsch in 2013 offers innovations such as biometric login, optical control of the circuit boards used and complete documentation of all work processes. The U-Press closes the gap between manual and automatic embossing presses and is intended to prevent conscious and unconscious incorrect embossing.

Since 1985, Erich Utsch AG has also been offering license plate frames for screwless fastening of license plates on vehicles from almost all manufacturers. In 2008 Utsch launched an illuminated license plate holder called Erulux.

Participations (selection)

Erich Utsch AG is currently involved in around 25 companies worldwide. The most important are listed here:

  • Ketner-Utsch A / S in Denmark
  • Utsch International Ltd. in Ireland
  • LicenSys Pty Ltd. in Australia
  • Utal Sp.zoo in Poland
  • Utsch España SLU in Spain
  • Hills Numberplates Ltd in the UK
  • Faab Fabricauto in France

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint. utsch.com, accessed March 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ https://www.bundesanzeiger.de
  3. ↑ https://www.bundesanzeiger.de
  4. ↑ Anja Müller: Der Schilderkönig von Siegen , in: Handelsblatt , No. 132 of July 14, 2014, p. 24f.
  5. ↑ About UTSCH. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Consolidated balance sheet of Erich Utsch AG 2017 www.bundesanzeiger.de
  7. ↑ Major order for German license plate manufacturer from Egypt. autokiste.de, July 3, 2008, accessed November 6, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Doing business with a German company. Egyptian prosecutors indict ex-ministers. Spiegel online, April 17, 2011, accessed April 22, 2011 .
  9. ↑ It will probably not be elected until later. taz.de, July 14, 2011, accessed on November 6, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Mubarak-era politicians acquitted of allegations of corruption. Deutsche Welle online, February 24, 2015, accessed April 8, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Smart signs. welt.de, March 26, 2014, accessed on March 31, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Utsch AG is sold. Swedes and Australians take over. Siegener Zeitung, September 9, 2016, accessed on September 21, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Put the company in good hands. Website Utsch AG, accessed on September 21, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Erich UTSCH AG is making progress with strategic realignment. In: M&A Review. Retrieved on February 15, 2019 (German).
  15. ↑ Utsch AG and Hills Numberplates Ltd: License plate sizes go together. Retrieved February 26, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Consolidated balance sheet of Erich Utsch AG 2017 www.bundesanzeiger.de

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