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BayWa AG

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ISIN DE0005194062
founding 1923
Seat Munich , GermanyGermanyGermany 
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Number of employees 18,831 (2019)
sales 17.059 billion euros (2019)
Branch Trading company
Website www.baywa.de
As of December 31, 2019

The BayWa AG (until July 1972: Bayerische goods mediation agricultural cooperatives AG ) is a German conglomerate based in Munich .

Business segments

BayWa is an international trading and service group . In the business segments agriculture, energy and construction, trade and logistics form the overarching core competencies .

Agriculture segment

The Agriculture division provides various trade and services for the agriculture and food industry and almost completely maps the agricultural value chain . The agricultural business traditionally accounts for the largest part of the company's turnover. In the 2015 financial year, this segment achieved a rate of almost 70 percent. Based on its geographic core area in Germany and Austria , BayWa is now active worldwide in the agricultural segment. In Austria, BayWa is active in the agricultural business through subsidiaries, and in selected countries in Central and Eastern Europe with its own national companies. In the fruit business, BayWa opened up the New Zealand market through Turners & Growers ( T & G Global Limited ) and gained access to the American continent, Australia and Asia. And also in the agricultural trade, the international activities z. B. through the acquisition of the globally active service, logistics and trading company Cefetra BV and the majority stake in Bohnhorst Agrarhandel GmbH in 2012/2013 as well as through the takeover of the grain trader Wessex Grain Ltd. 2015 and Evergrain Germany GmbH & Co. KG , a company specializing in the international trade in brewing grain, expanded in 2016.

At the beginning of 2016, the Agriculture segment was restructured and has since been divided into the BayWa Agri Supply & Trade (BAST), BayWa Agrar Vertrieb (BAV), Technology, Digital Farming and Fruit business units :

BayWa Agri Supply & Trade (BAST)

The BAST business area comprises the national and international trading, distribution and logistics activities of BayWa for v. a. Cereals and oilseeds. There is a worldwide network for the import and export of agricultural products, including its own inland and sea ports.

BayWa Agricultural Sales (BAV)

This is where the collection business and trading in operating resources such as seeds , fertilizers and pesticides as well as animal feed are bundled.

fruit

In Germany, BayWa is a leading system provider of table fruit for food wholesalers and retailers and the largest single marketer of table fruit and the largest supplier of pome fruit. Organic farming accounts for around 15 percent of the total volume of pome fruit in the BayWa Fruit Division. Local family businesses in the region around Ravensburg produce mainly according to the guidelines of the Bioland and Naturland Association. BayWa has a stake in Obst vom Bodensee Vertriebsgesellschaft and has taken over the pome fruit business of VOG Ingelheim . The international fruit business of T&G Global is also managed in this business area . In November 2014, BayWa announced that it would in future be outsourcing the fruit trade to its own subsidiary BayWa Obst GmbH & Co. KG . In early 2016, the company acquired a majority stake in TFC Holland , a Dutch importer of exotic fruits.

technology

With this division, the company covers agricultural engineering. The product range includes agricultural and forestry technology including milk and feeding technology, municipal technology and the construction of stables and stable equipment. But it also includes systems with specific requirements, as well as specialist agricultural needs and spare parts.

Digital farming

In 2015, the company created the new business field Digital Farming, in which the digital offers are bundled. It includes e-commerce activities as well as smart farming. In order to be able to offer software solutions and integrated services for process-controlled operational management in agriculture, BayWa took over the system service provider PC-Agrar-Informations- und Beratungsdienst GmbH and its sales subsidiary FarmFacts (formerly LAND-DATA Eurosoft ) in April 2015 .

Interlubes

As a 100% subsidiary of BayWa AG , Interlubes GmbH , based in Würzburg, has been active since March 2018 . The online platform serves as an inquiry platform for commercial customers and offers cross-manufacturer and cross-brand products in the field of lubricants. According to Roland Braun, Managing Director of Interlubes GmbH , the aim is to establish an online portal with up to 100,000 articles. In contrast to a classic online shop, Interlubes can only send inquiries about products. The interested party then receives an individual offer with price and delivery date within half an hour.

Energy segment

The Energy segment is the second largest core business of the company. Firstly, it includes the distribution of fossil and renewable fuels, fuels and lubricants and on the other in the holding company re BayWa renewable energy GmbH combined activities in the field of renewable energy.

Sales of energy products

In the field of renewable energies, it offers various products and services ranging from service for biogas plants and trading in photovoltaic systems to the sale of alternative energy sources such as bio heating oil, biodiesel or wood pellets as well as green gas, green electricity and lubricants and operating materials. 100% of the green electricity is generated from run-of-river power plants in the BayWa regions.

BayWa re renewable energy

The BayWa re GmbH renewable energy with photovoltaics, wind power , biogas and geothermal energy is a wholly owned subsidiary of BayWa AG . It has locations in Germany (headquarters in Munich), Austria, France, Italy, Great Britain, Spain, Poland, Denmark, the USA, Australia, Japan, Luxembourg, Croatia, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Singapore and Thailand. BayWa is active as a project developer and trader for systems in the renewable energies sector through BayWa re subsidiaries, which are active throughout Europe, in the USA, Asia and Australia in the fields of biogas, solar and wind power plants.

The energy trading company BayWa re Clean Energy Sourcing GmbH (CLENS), based in Leipzig , has also been part of BayWa re since December 2017 .

Construction segment

With the sale of building materials and construction services, the Construction segment contributed around 10 percent to Group sales in the 2015 financial year. Regionally, the business focus is on southern Germany and Austria. In addition, many locations are operated by franchise partners in Austria and Italy via the Austrian subsidiary AFS Franchise-Systeme GmbH . In Austria the business runs through franchise partners under the umbrella brand Unser Lagerhaus and in Italy under the brand tuttoGIARDINO .

The building materials specialist trade supplies commercial customers and private end customers with all kinds of building materials. But programs for structural and expansion as well as civil engineering are also part of the offer. This business segment also mediates craft businesses, takes on construction site logistics and arranges general contractors. Energy consultants nationwide at numerous locations support private and commercial property owners in the planning of energetic renovation measures with the inclusion of public funding programs.

Organs and owners

Board

The board consists of five people: Klaus Josef Lutz (chairman), Andreas Helber, Marcus Pöllinger, Matthias Taft, Reinhard Wolf.

Previous chairman of the board:

  • 1923–1932 Clemens Löweneck
  • 1932–1935 Josef Haselberger (entrepreneur, Josef Haselberger meat and canning factory in Aichach)
  • 1935–1945 Friedrich Eichinger (SA brigade leader, adjutant of Gauleiter Adolf Wagner in Munich and member of the board of the Landhandelsbundes )
  • 1946–1962 Josef Singer (General Director of the Bavarian Raiffeisen Central Banks, also President of the Bavarian Senate from 1947 )
  • 1963–1972 Siegfried Holzer
  • 1972–1991 Otmar Wasmer (previously 1966–1971 head of the Südvieh-Südfleisch-Lutz Group)
  • 1991-2008 Wolfgang Deml
  • since July 1, 2008 Klaus Josef Lutz (previously managing director at Süddeutscher Verlag )

Supervisory board

The supervisory board consists of 16 people. The chairman of the supervisory board is Manfred Nüssel , his deputy Klaus Buchleitner.

Previous chairmen of the supervisory board:

Cooperative advisory board

The cooperative advisory board consists of 30 people. Manfred Geyer has been the chairman since August 6, 2014, and Manfred Nüssel is his deputy .

Former personalities

  • Stefan Bötzel (Board member until March 4, 2009)
  • Jakob Stöckl (Cooperative Advisory Board until October 5, 2009)

Shareholder structure

34.60% Bavarian Raiffeisen-Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft (BRB) based in Beilngries
25.40% Raiffeisen Agrar Invest GmbH based in Vienna (holding company for LLI and RWA holdings in order to achieve blocking minority )
40.00% Free float

As of March 31, 2020

Company figures

Key figures
identification number 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Sales revenue
[million Euro]		 10,531.1 15,957.6 15,201.8 14,928.1 15,409.9
EBITDA
[million Euro]		 306.6 360.4 264.6 288.3 272.6
Balance sheet total
[million Euro]
(31.12.)		 4,460.2 5,015.1 5,486.3 6,036.7 6,474.9
Employees
(December 31)		 16,559 16,834 15,917 16,229 16,711

history

Clemens Löweneck, first CEO of BayWa

Foundation and first years of development

As during the economic and financial crisis of the Weimar Republic , the inflation always dramatic development, action was taken at the cooperative Bavarian Central Loan Fund (BZDK). She saw the need to protect the trade in grain, machinery and equipment from the incalculable risks of financial transactions. On the initiative of the BZDK board of directors and because of the hyperinflation , the general assembly decided on January 17, 1923 to separate the goods business from the money business and to transfer it to a newly founded company. It was entered in the commercial register on February 16, 1923 as a trading organization of the Bavarian Raiffeisen cooperatives under the name "Bayerische Warenvermittlung Agricultural Cooperatives AG". Although shaped by the ownership structure and composition of the supervisory board, the stock corporation was chosen as the legal form in order to use the advantages of a broader capital base and more flexible management structure. In addition, the acquisition of shares was reserved for cooperative circles. Clemens Löweneck took over the function of the board of directors in the newly founded company, which was quickly referred to by customers and suppliers as BayWa. At the same time, he was in charge of BayWa's goods business and the organizationally separate money business of BZDK. This personal union at the top of BayWa and BZDK was maintained for almost five decades until 1972.

BayWa headquarters on Türkenstrasse in Munich

The company started operations with over 400 warehouses and took on wholesale activities for the cooperative goods business. One of their central tasks was to market the farmers' produce. At the same time, a cost-effective purchase of production resources such as machines, seeds and animal feed should be organized for them. The branches in Augsburg, Bamberg, Nuremberg, Straubing and Würzburg processed the contracts with mills or breweries, and they also controlled the numerous warehouses. From the beginning, the company promoted modern agriculture , for example with its range of machines and repair services. Training courses were also part of the range of services, and even new media such as a film with information about large machines for harvesting, storage and transport were used. Beyond the target group of farmers, BayWa also devoted itself to consumers as a trading partner. It pursued the goal of meeting the basic needs for nutrition, living, warmth and mobility. BayWa's range of products also included coal and building materials.

The economic crisis in Germany during the Weimar Republic as a result of the reparations payments from the First World War also reached BayWa in 1925. This forced the cooperative organization to undertake extensive restructuring with the closure of 40 warehouses and around 100 sub-warehouses, and in this context they had to almost halve the number of employees from 1800 to 960 within one year. In 1925 the company had 100 operations and 110 sub-warehouses, 13 of which were owned by the company, 97 belonged to Bayerische Zentral-Kreditkasse (BZDK) and 100 were rented. In 1927 sales were around 100 million Reichsmarks and, thanks to an increase in profits, also enabled a dividend payment of 6 percent. In order to counter a renewed downturn, BayWa exported grain to Italy , Austria and Switzerland in 1927 . More and more agricultural companies got into existential difficulties after the start of the global economic crisis in 1929 due to sharp falls in prices and sales. Following the cooperative partnership principle, BayWa supported needy customers with solidarity measures. At the same time, during this phase it took the first steps in its corporate history through takeovers. It thus expanded its core area to include other parts of Bavaria. BayWa took over around 40 warehouses from the Raiffeisen-Waren-Hauptgenossenschaft in Nuremberg and leased 25 warehouses from Mittelfränkische Kreis-Loanhenskasse GmbH . In 1931 sales were around 91 million Reichsmarks.

Phase of National Socialist Influence

The takeover of power by the National Socialists also brought about drastic changes for the agriculture and food industry. The Reichsnährstandsgesetz ( Reich Nutrition Act) regulated production and sales from 1933 onwards, while the Reichserbhofgesetz (Reichserbhofgesetz) was used to ensure that all agricultural organizations and planned economy principles were brought into line. In 1934 the Reichsnährstand ordered the unification of the Bavarian cooperative system. The "Gewa" (cooperative goods center) in Regensburg with warehouses in the Upper Palatinate and parts of Lower Bavaria and Franconia was forcibly (synchronized) transferred to BayWa, whose sales area then extended to all of Bavaria. As a result of the merger, sales rose to 172 million Reichsmarks in 1934.

The direct political influence on the company continued in 1935 when the chairman of the board, Josef Haselberger, died and the NSDAP Friedrich Eichinger was appointed as his successor. He led the company until the end of the National Socialist era . From 1936, the NSDAP and SS member Johann Deininger also took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board. In 1937 BayWa had around 3,300 employees and in 1938 a total of 3,700 employees.

After the outbreak of the Second World War , the planned economy requirements for the food industry were intensified. For German agriculture this meant the conversion to a war economy in 1939 combined with additional demands to "secure the Reichsnährstandes". BayWa in particular, on whose supervisory board a Gauamtsleiter was appointed for the first time in the year the war began, should provide more food and operating resources. In order to meet these requirements, BayWa also employed almost 700 people. The company's internal documents do not provide any information about whether forced laborers were employed in this context . Since the company is assuming such a situation today, however, it welcomed the fact that the German Raiffeisen Association (DRV) paid 2.5 million euros into the compensation fund of the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” (EVZ) in 2000 on behalf of its member companies .

During the war, 23 BayWa warehouses were destroyed and the main building in Munich was bombed by Allied aircraft. Around 6,000 people were employed by the end of the war. By the end of the war in 1945, 512 employees had died and 487 were still missing or were in captivity.

Support of the economic development in Germany

With the end of the Second World War in 1945, all board and supervisory board members had to vacate their posts. Their successors initially only came into office on a provisional basis. Josef Singer was appointed Chairman of the Management Board. As part of denazification , the board of directors dismissed a total of 26 department heads and authorized representatives at headquarters and in the branches as well as 131 warehouse administrators by 1946. In the same year, the Bayerische Zentral-Kreditkasse (BZDK), which was run in personal union, was renamed the Bayerische Raiffeisen-Zentralkasse (BRZ). It was also important for BayWa's new start that the US military government recognized the importance of BayWa for agricultural production from the start. It issued permits at an early stage to start business operations and for overland transport. In this way, BayWa was able to bring potatoes, grain and vegetables from the Bavarian fields to customers throughout Germany. A poor harvest in 1947 resulted in severe food shortages. BayWa organized imports of potatoes from the USA, Denmark and the Netherlands.

In view of the economic problems and currency devaluation in the first years after the end of the war, great hopes were placed in the currency reform on June 20, 1948 with the introduction of the German mark. BayWa's associated opening balance sheet showed assets of DM 22.5 million, liabilities of DM 4.8 million and share capital of DM 6 million. In fact, the new currency gave the economy a firm footing and picked up speed again. In 1949 more than 4900 people were employed.

Harvest delivery by farmers at BayWa

The following period in the 1950s was marked by structural change in agriculture, as the growing industry became attractive for many agricultural workers. Consumer needs also changed. This included the increased consumption of meat, which required more animal fattening. On the other hand, there was an overproduction of grain. From 1951, due to the oversupply of potatoes, these were also exported to Italy. In 1952, the company marketed 348 million tons of grain to the trade, and the amount rose to over 550,000 tons by the late 1950s. Due to the increasing meat consumption of the German citizens and the up to then large import dependency of feed, the company's own Raiffeisen-Kraftfutterwerk (RKW) was built in Würzburg in 1955. In December 1956, the 1/1957 issue of the BRZ and BayWa employee magazine, the "Schwalbe", was published for the first time and is still in existence today. The employee magazine has been published throughout the group under the name “BayWa live” since 2015. In cooperation with the agricultural scientist Erich Geiersberger , BayWa also adopted the idea of ​​the machine ring (MR) in 1958 and established three machine ring model projects in Buchhofen, Grafenau and Landau an der Isar.

At the same time, BayWa benefited from the construction boom in the 1950s. BayWa recorded a sharp rise in sales of building materials. Not least thanks to new building materials and heating oil, the company achieved sales of DM 1.123 billion in 1959. The number of BayWa employees at the now around 500 locations exceeded the 8,000 mark. The company has become one of the most important employers in rural areas and has also devoted itself to training, including with its own academy and teachers in Hohenkammer. 1200 apprentices were employed at the end of the 1950s  , the training quota rose to 15 percent.

The company also experienced strong growth in the 1960s. Within a decade, it doubled sales to almost DM 2 billion. The rural structural change with a significant increase in animal husbandry also changed the face of BayWa. From 1966 to the beginning of the 1980s the Research Institute for Animal Nutrition (VAT) and until 2007 the plant breeding and research station for the effective use of pesticides and fertilizers were both set up in Hohenkammer . In 1969 another concentrate plant was opened in Regensburg .

In 1970 their farms produced more than 500,000 tons of compound feed, which was an increase of 200 percent within ten years. The mechanization of agriculture also developed a great deal of dynamism during this phase, so that sales of combine harvesters and tractors increased during the 1960s; the company sold almost 44,000 such agricultural machines during this period.

In the course of the economic upswing and the population's increasing desire for mobility, BayWa built up its own petrol station network . Trading in heating oil and lubricants also developed. According to the annual report for 1970, it made a significant contribution to improving earnings. This also applied to building materials, as the building boom meant that more and more new building material markets and retail markets with assortments for house, garden, car, home and craftsmen emerged. Electronic data processing was introduced within the company's administration. From 1970 onwards, BayWa was the first company in the industry to use automated systems on a large scale, which process over 100,000 receipts every day.

BayWa in the changing economic environment of the 1970s and 1980s

Anniversary newspaper for the 50th anniversary of BayWa

On July 13, 1972, the "Bavarian goods brokerage of agricultural cooperatives" officially received the popularly established name "BayWa". 1972 also the personal union of the board with the Bavarian Raiffeisen-Zentralkasse (BRZ) was given up. The green square, which is still valid today, was introduced as a new logo, which comes from Otl Aicher , who also designed the appearance of the Summer Olympics in Munich.

In January 1973 BayWa celebrated its 50th anniversary in the Herkulessaal in the Munich Residenz . BayWa increased its sales in 1973 from 2.3 billion DM to 2.8 billion DM; in the anniversary year it had around 13,000 employees and more than 2900 trainees. Siegfried Holzer, who was the last chairman of the board of directors at BayWa and Bayerische Raiffeisen-Zentralkasse (BRZ), switched to the supervisory board of BayWa. He was succeeded by Otmar Wasmer, who was then Chairman of the Board of BayWa for 20 years. 1973 BayWa opened the first large-scale building materials market in Regensburg-Bruderwöhrd and in Hoehenrain the first BayWa Autobahntankstelle at the A 95 .

In 1974 BayWa opened the largest central warehouse of that time, which existed until 1980/1981. As a result of the oil crisis , BayWa presented the so-called solar house in 1976, which covers more than 80 percent of its heating requirements with solar energy. In 1976, BayWa built a large tank farm for heating oil and diesel in Aschaffenburg .

An essential characteristic of the 1970s and 1980s was the change from a former warehouse to a versatile trading and service company. Numerous BayWa locations became so-called mixed operations with agricultural trade, machine sales, building materials trade, DIY stores and garden centers, service offerings and petrol stations.

In 1975 BayWa AG and the Bayerische Raiffeisen-Zentralbank acquired the two prefabricated house companies Knödler in Maulbronn and HANSA in Travemünde . Both prefabricated house companies started producing prefabricated houses for Neue Heimat in 1977 . In 1978 the Schörghuber Group in Munich took over the two prefabricated house companies.

In 1976 the headquarters and the goods departments were moved to the Sternhaus in the Arabellapark in Munich-Bogenhausen.

Starting in 1977, employees were employee shares purchase on preferential terms. In 1975 a large garden center was opened in Haar (near Munich) and a large hardware store (hobby market) was opened in the Olympia shopping center in Moosach (Munich) . So-called BayWa centers were built in the 1970s, including in Ansbach, Augsburg-Göggingen, Kempten, Nuremberg, Passau, Schweinfurt-Bergl and, from 1978, in Munich ( Hanauer Straße ) and Schwabing (Hittorfstraße) as well as the largest BayWa to date. Retail business in Würzburg-Lengfeld. The increasing discount-oriented price and business policy prompted the management to give up the centers again in 1979; in cooperation with other retailers, they only kept the centers in Ansbach, Nuremberg and Passau. The DIY chain Praktiker took over nine DIY stores from BayWa in 1979.

In 1979 the company achieved a turnover of 5.45 billion DM with more than 14,000 employees. Although the agricultural trade and agricultural engineering generate the largest part of the turnover, mineral oils, building materials and retail trade have gained in importance. At this point it also became clear that the agricultural trade for BayWa could hardly be increased due to its high market share in Bavaria and the intensive structural change in agriculture. Since the beginning of the 1980s, BayWa has therefore also operated car dealerships and built corresponding car dealerships and garages for the sale of FIAT vehicles with Alfa Romeo and Lancia , Mitsubishi Motors and Volvo. In addition, the cities and municipalities were offered accessories for winter service vehicles, tractors and building yard vehicles. In 1984 a used machine center was opened in Manching.

At the beginning of the 1980s, the main shareholder of BayWa, the Bayerische Raiffeisen-Zentralbank (BRZ), was troubled by speculation on the property market and collapsed. The Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank took over the BRZ's banking business, and the BRZ's investments were brought into the Bayerische Raiffeisen-Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft (BRB) as a financial holding company. Since then, BRB has been the main shareholder of BayWa.

In 1985 the company operated around 76 petrol stations, 58 of which were self-service petrol stations. Due to the economic downturn in the agricultural and construction sectors, BayWa tried to become more efficient by streamlining sales channels, increasing the use of IT and cutting jobs. By the end of the 1980s, around 3800 jobs were lost as a result. In 1986 the divisional organization (divisional organization) was introduced. The segments agriculture, technology, building materials, mineral oils and building & garden centers were created.

Internationalization after reunification

Fully automated BayWa filling station with bio-diesel

After the reunification in the GDR , the company got involved outside of Bavaria for the first time and set up locations in Saxony, southern Thuringia and southern Brandenburg. In doing so, she cooperated with the Bäuerliche Handelsgenossenschaft (BHG) and invested in Eastern German companies. In 1990 sales amounted to around DM 5.7 billion. In 1992, the first operations with the BayWa and BHG logos as a franchise system were opened in the new federal states . The wholly owned subsidiary BHSS ( BayWa Handels-Systeme-Service GmbH ) acted as the franchisor . The first BayWa branch was opened in Dresden.

In 1994 BayWa took over 51 percent of the shares in the Raiffeisen Warenverband Tirol (RMV), then the majority in “Unser Lagerhaus” Warenhandelsgesellschaft mbH (WHG), which dominated the cooperative goods business in Carinthia and Vorarlberg. Through its Austrian subsidiaries, BayWa also gained access to the markets in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Bulgaria and Poland. The Austrian companies RWV, WHG and BayWa Vorarlberg continued to remain legally independent and in 1994 achieved a turnover of around 600 million DM with around 1000 employees.

In 1998, in the year of its 75th anniversary, BayWa established the BayWa Foundation to promote educational projects in the fields of nutrition and energy. At the end of the 1990s, biodiesel and natural gas filling stations were built, and wood pellets and GMO-free animal feed supplemented the range.

In 1999 the European Union gave the green light for a strategic alliance between RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria , based in Vienna, and BayWa. There was a share swap in which BayWa received 50 percent plus one share in RWA, and the Austrian cooperatives and RWA Deutschland GmbH took over 23% of the BayWa shares in return. The turnover of the BayWa group grows from 2.8 billion DM to almost 10 billion DM. The share capital grew by a share split by 21.2 million DM to 127 million DM. The cooperative share in the shares amounted to 72.4%. In 2000 the turnover was around 10.3 billion DM.

In 2002, the Federal Cartel Office approved the takeover of the Württembergische Warenzentrale WLZ Raiffeisen AG (turnover: 1.8 billion euros; 2000 employees) based in Stuttgart. A first attempt at merging was rejected in 1991. However, BayWa had to surrender eight agricultural locations in the Bavarian-Swabian border area due to a requirement by the Federal Cartel Office. In 2007 the largest construction center with a sales area of ​​40,000 square meters was opened in Fürth. The subsidiary AFS Franchise-Systems was founded for Austria and Eastern Europe. In 2002 the Austrian grocery chain "Maximarkt" and in 2007 the snack manufacturer Kelly were sold to the German Intersnack . In 2002, the group subsidiary RI-Solution GmbH was founded for the IT sector . In 2003, the BayWa share was listed on the SDAX for the first time due to increasing stock exchange turnover and market capitalization .

Grain delivery with a BayWa truck

2008 was the best business year in the company's history to date, with consolidated sales increasing by 21 percent to EUR 8.8 billion. Around 4 billion euros of this went to the agricultural segment (agricultural trade and technology) and 2.5 billion euros to the energy segment. The operating result was also increased by 12.7 percent to a record value of 162 million euros. In Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe a total of 5 million tons of grain, 800,000 tons of animal feed, 2 million tons of fertilizers and 260,000 tons of pesticides were marketed or sold. In addition, the North Rhine-Westphalian building materials trading company Voss GmbH & Co. KG in Coesfeld-Lette and Bauzentrum Westmünsterland GmbH & Co. KG based in Ahaus are taken over. In 2008 Klaus Josef Lutz took over the chairmanship of the board from Wolfgang Deml, who was retiring. In the same year, IFS Srl was founded in Bolzano in cooperation with the South Tyrolean cooperative organization. IFS expanded with a network of around 70 franchise partners at 700 locations under the tuttoGiardino brand in northern Italy. The company was represented in the MDAX from 2009 to 2013 and, including franchise and partner companies, had around 3000 sales locations in 16 European countries and the USA. BayWa was considered the largest European agricultural trader.

Starting in 2009, the company bought various companies that are internationally active as project developers and dealers in the field of solar and wind parks, biogas and photovoltaic systems. BayWa re USA LLC , based in Irvince, California, was founded at the end of 2010 as a 100 percent holding by BayWa re GmbH . The product range includes high-quality photovoltaic modules, inverters and mounting systems. On June 7, 2011, BayWa AG entered the wholesale business for solar technology in Great Britain, France and Denmark through its wholly owned subsidiary BayWa re GmbH and took over 90 percent of the solar wholesale activities of Dulas , a wholesaler for photovoltaic systems.

In 2011, the company entered the international fruit business with the majority takeover of Turners & Growers (T&G), a global exporter and producer of fresh fruit based in New Zealand. The Guinness Peat Group Plc. sold its block of shares to BayWa. In addition, in September 2012 BayWa took over the grain and raw materials trader Cefreta BV (sales 2012 around 4.9 billion euros) from the Netherlands with a global logistics network in the agricultural trade; it also took a majority stake in the north German Bohnhorst Agrarhandel GmbH (sales 2011 around 468 Million euros) based in Steimbke , which was mainly represented in East Germany and Poland. In 2014, Bohnhorst Agrarhandel GmbH was completely taken over and renamed BayWa Agrarhandel GmbH in the following year . The last two acquisitions mentioned serve BayWa's strategic goal of opening the gateway to the grain and raw materials markets on all continents. The group-wide trading volume of grain increased from 5.5 million to around 28 million tons.

In January 2012, a total of 56 BayWa DIY megastores with garden centers were spun off into the new BayWa Bau- & Gartenmärkte GmbH & Co. KG . The Semer Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH , headquartered in Salzburg took a 50 percent stake for 28 million euros and planned a wholly-owned acquisition. Since then, the new company has been operationally managed by the Hellweg Group based in Dortmund . 15 DIY megastores with garden centers remained directly with BayWa and were integrated into other business areas,

On December 28, 2018, the sale of the "Don Rodrigo" solar park near Seville to MEAG , asset manager of Munich Re and ERGO Group AG, was announced. In total, around 500,000 solar modules were installed in the facility with an output of 175 megawatts on an area of ​​265 hectares.

Sponsorship

BayWa has been the official main sponsor of FC Bayern Basketball since the 2014/2015 season .

BayWa Foundation logo

BayWa Foundation

The BayWa Foundation, established in 1998, promotes long-term children and youth education projects in Germany and around the world in the areas of healthy nutrition and renewable energies, for example school gardens, wind power and biogas systems in schools. She supports socially committed students with 100 so-called Germany scholarships every year. The BayWa AG doubled donations to the Foundation and enters their administrative costs.

Trivia

The music and cabaret group Biermösl Blosn caused a scandal in 1982 when they published the Bavarian anthem - Parodie Gott mit dir du Land of BayWa , in which the use of chemicals in Bavarian agriculture was criticized. Initially, the song was not played on Bavarian radio . In 1998 the Bavarian Ministry of Education withdrew the edition of a music school book because it contained this parody. A hot off the press edition of 70,000 copies was pulped at the behest of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture .

Web links

Commons : BayWa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Financial Report 2019. (pdf) In: baywa.com. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ BayWa AG: Group Financial Report 2015 . S. 3 .
  3. ↑ a b c BayWa AG: Group Financial Report 2015 . S. 4 .
  4. ↑ BayWa takes over Evergrain KG completely , at www.baywa.de , accessed on August 30, 2018
  5. ↑ Press release on the restructuring of the Agriculture segment. Retrieved December 18, 2016 .
  6. ↑ BayWa AG press release on the BAST business area. Retrieved December 18, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Press release from May 12, 2016. Retrieved December 18, 2016 .
  8. ↑ FOCUS Online: BayWa outsources fruit trading into subsidiaries . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed December 18, 2016]).
  9. ↑ BayWa AG: Group Financial Report 2015 . S. 5 f .
  10. ↑ Birgit Sigl: BayWa Energie: Cross-manufacturer lubricant portal “Interlubes” is launched. In: https://www.baywa.com . March 28, 2018, accessed May 6, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Location overview of BayWa rerenewable energy GmbH. In: https://www.baywa-re.de . Retrieved December 18, 2012 .
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