Willi Betz

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International shipping company
Willi Betz GmbH & Co. KG

logo
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1945
Seat Reutlingen , Germany
management Rainer Bisinger, Wolfgang Bisinger
Number of employees 30th
sales EUR 10.58 million
Branch carrier
Website www.willibetz.com
As of December 31, 2017

The Internationale Spedition Willi Betz GmbH & Co. KG is a German freight forwarding company based in the Swabian Reutlingen . During the best of times, the company had more than 50 locations in Europe and Asia employing around 8,000 people. With around 2,000 tractors and around 3,000 trailers, Willi Betz was one of the world's largest freight carriers with its own fleet.

history

The forwarding company was founded in 1945 by Willi Betz († December 12, 2015 ) in Undingen and has since developed into an international logistics group. The expansion of the company was made possible in particular by the close contacts that Willi Betz established with the state transport company SO MAT in Bulgaria in the 1960s . The takeover, which finally took place in the 1990s, enabled the company to develop into one of the leading transport service providers in Southeast Europe and the Near and Middle East.

In 2008 the company had branches in 25 countries and achieved sales of over one billion euros and 8,000 employees. As a result of the global economic crisis , the company's turnover and number of employees decreased significantly in the following years. In 2014 around 3,000 people were still employed. As a reaction, the group was restructured, so Willi Betz separated from its subsidiary LGI at the end of 2011 in order to concentrate on the core business of forwarding and transport services as well as the expansion of activities in Eastern Europe. In 2012, Wolfgang Bisinger and Martin Rilling were appointed as managing directors; in June 2015, Rainer Bisinger succeeded Martin Rilling. Company founder Willi Betz died on December 12th, 2015 at the age of 88.

development

Willi Betz's sales in million euros
year Sales
2007
  
 974.42
2008
  
 1,003.79
2009
  
 689.27
2010
  
 727.35
2011
  
 777.73
2012
  
 448.75
2013
  
 77.69
2014
  
 48.20
2015
  
 32.31
2016
  
 22.22
2017
  
 10.58
Data source: respective annual or consolidated financial statements in the electronic Federal Gazette

Business areas before restructuring

Truck of the Willi Betz forwarding company

Before the restructuring from 2010, three major business areas were operated:

  • Forwarding : The forwarding division employs around 400 people at 54 locations. The range of services extends from normal piece goods transport to automobile logistics, refrigerated transport and vehicle transport to special transports and combined transports.
  • Transport : 2,000 tractors and 3,000 trailers are used in international freight traffic . The department creates individually developed timetables and transport concepts for its customers.
  • Vehicle trade : Vehicles are marketed in Eastern Europe at eleven locations with around 800 employees. Willi Betz sells the brands Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler, Jeep, Smart and Mitsubishi in Bulgaria and Macedonia and, in addition to selling the vehicles, also offers related services.

Criminal proceedings

Since Willi Betz mostly drives with Southeastern European workers, the company has come under fire. In March 2003 there was a major raid on the Reutlingen headquarters and other European locations due to social security fraud , in which more than 600 officials were involved. On March 17, 2008, Thomas Betz was sentenced by the Stuttgart Regional Court to five years in prison and a fine of 2.16 million euros for bribery and social security fraud. The sentence was suspended after the trial was over due to the long pre- trial detention (2.5 years).

Move to Switzerland

In 2009, the management announced that the international activities of the group of companies would be directed by a new holding company, Avelli AG , in St. Gallen, Switzerland . The company's headquarters are to remain in Reutlingen.

Web links

Commons : Willi Betz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Annual financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ^ A b c Ralph Bausinger : Betz: 28 employees lose their jobs. Südwestpresse , March 14, 2014, accessed July 22, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Reutlinger Generalanzeiger: "Willi Betz died at the age of 88" , December 14, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b Two brothers at the head of Willi Betz , at www.gea.de , accessed on September 18, 2015
  5. ↑ Willi Betz sells subsidiary LGI , at www.gea.de , accessed on September 18, 2015
  6. ^ Spedition Willi Betz with new bosses , on www.gea.de , accessed on September 18, 2015
  7. ^ Reutlinger Generalanzeiger: Willi Betz died at the age of 88 , December 14, 2015.
  8. ↑ Five years imprisonment and a heavy fine for haulier Betz , Tagesspiegel of March 17, 2008, accessed on January 21, 2015.
  9. ↑ Freight forwarder Betz released millions in fraud , at www.manager-magazin.de , accessed on September 18, 2015
  10. ↑ Forwarding agent Thomas Betz leaves Germany , on www.verkehrsrundschau.de , accessed on September 18, 2015