Zapf removals
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1975 |
| Seat | Berlin-Neukölln , Nobelstrasse 66 |
| management | Sven Reinholz |
| Number of employees | 250 (Berlin), in the network 700 |
| Branch | International specialist shipping company |
| Website | www.zapf.de |
| Status: 2019 | |
The Zapf removals AG (proper spelling: peg-removals ) is an international forwarder based in Berlin . In addition to the AG, there are other companies that belong to the zapf franchise network .
The company was founded in 1975 by Klaus Zapf as Klaus EH Zapf GmbH in what was then West Berlin as a moving company and expanded into one of the leading, specialized German moving and forwarding companies.
The founder Klaus Zapf withdrew from the operative business in 2002. Zapf umzüge continues to preserve original ideals and attentions - for example on equality for women - right up to current company policy.
Sven Reinholz has been the company's director since 2015. Annkathrin Herwig has been the second member of the board since 2020.
Companies
After the first few years based in Neukölln, the company moved from 1985 to 1995 to Köpenicker Straße 18-20 and from 1995 to 2015 to Köpenicker Straße 14 in Kreuzberg . Zapf umzüge has been back in the Berlin district of Neukölln at Nobelstrasse 66 since mid-2015. The square on the Spree in Kreuzberg existed for a few years as a “moving shop”.
Locations
- Berlin (since foundation 1975)
The head office in Berlin houses a car workshop, carpentry, vehicle fleet, file and high-bay warehouse and the training center. A branch (relocation shop) is located near the S-Bahn station and the center of Berlin-Schöneweide .
zapf umzüge has been a franchise company since 2000 , the locations operate independently with their own management in coordination with the head office. The zapf locations act as a nationwide moving group that work together with the same quality and performance standards. Frag zapf GmbH acts as the franchisor, organizing the processes, monitoring quality and managing various services such as nationwide advertising, the central purchasing of moving materials, etc.
- Freiburg (1984)
- Hamburg (1984)
- Frankfurt am Main (1985)
- Munich (1986)
- Stuttgart (1995)
- Mannheim (2007)
- Krefeld (2010)
Specialty of locations
- The Mannheim location is in Mühlauhafen and specializes in archive, library and laboratory relocations.
- Zapf Freiburg : The company zapf removals in Freiburg is a provider of complete logistics solutions in the field of warehouses and commercial real estate and offers self-storage, with a flexible term in separate compartments for private and commercial customers. Since 2016 offering pin-removals at several locations in Freiburg, the " Self Storage on."
Range of services
In addition to private removals, Zapf has also been offering the relocation of complete (office) workplaces for companies, authorities and institutions with all their facilities since the late 1990s.
On behalf of large companies, zapf umzüge carries out complex changes of location (centralization) in such a way that work processes or production chains are optimally maintained - for example with Deutsche Bahn , as in 2006 on 4 weekends in a 3 shift system 24 hours a day 14 locations with 2500 Jobs were relocated to the headquarters in Berlin.
Today the zapf group acts as a logistics service provider .
Technical-structural development (selection)
- 1991: Introduction of the interchangeable container .
- 1996: Certification of the zapf system according to quality management standard ISO 9002 across the group (recertification of the group according to ISO 9001: 2000 in 2005).
- 2000: Franchising : Conversion of the zapf group to a franchise system .
- 2002: Entry into warehouse management. In addition to storage for private customers, the group is increasingly taking on storage for companies and commercial customers through to order picking , in Berlin there are 60,000 square meters of storage space available (100,000 square meters in total). The expansion of storage capacities is currently in progress, with a focus on Freiburg and self-storage in other locations.
- 2004: Global positioning of vehicles with GPS location.
- 2013: Detection of swap container movements using RFID .
- 2013: Development of an Eco-moving box: Consisting of hollow chamber profiles ecobox is up to 1,000 times can be used, recycled and reduces the CO 2 footprint of the group. The eco box has now largely replaced the corrugated cardboard box.
- 2016: Expansion of the range of services in the field of warehouse logistics and zapf self-storage .
- 2019: Expansion of the business area “modern file storage”.
- 2020: "For more road safety! Acquisition of a truck with MirrorCam - instead of conventional main and wide-angle mirrors, the system works with digital cameras and displays. "
history
“Klaus Emil Heinrich Zapf, a law student from Baden, came to Berlin in 1975. He bought a used Ford Transit and started clearing out and transporting the piano. ”Since he did not have a driver's license, Zapf was actually forced to work together because of the driver hiring - the driver was of course also the porter and this 'team building' was repeated with almost every additional vehicle. "Moving homes became the main business."
In keeping with the times, the principles of equal pay for equal work were on the agenda in the alternative economy - the initiator or boss was first among equals ( primus inter pares ) - all projects of the time were subject to the “demands on working life: grassroots, self-determined and to be free of hierarchies ”. The slogan on the Zapf trucks: “Owned by the workforce” was immediately apparent to both employees and customers.
The typical reservations of the old and working population towards students did not apply to Zapf, of course, but they had to be “stable on the stairs” and - “after completing their studies as business economists and graduate engineers - formed the company-trained management” (Lothar Uebel, p. 101 f .).
Opportunities in the 1970s
Zapf saw - regardless of the troubles of the transit routes - the advantage of locations in West Germany, because “Employees moving to West Berlin (were) paid for by the employment offices [..]. After the first moves abroad, the European long-distance transport and overseas departments were set up. "
In the second half of the 1970s - triggered by the nationwide, but above all Berlin strikes at universities, technical colleges and educational institutions - the final upheaval from the 'political' 68 movement to the 'practical' alternative movement took place.
"Zapf soon had the reputation of being the 'best moving collective' and was therefore in good company: around 1980, almost 40,000 people in West Berlin were working in so-called 'alternative companies.'"
“In 1979 Zapf's annual turnover exceeded the million mark for the first time. The company reached a size that is unproductive for a culture of constant discussion. […] At Zapf, the conception and implementation of business decisions were reduced to a small core of the core workforce. Although hierarchies remained insignificant, the company was structured and professionalized. "
Professionalisation of the 1980s
In the first half of the decade, the events in West Berlin were shaped by the squatters' movement , who were fighting against the redevelopment of the area and were able to prevent the destruction of the old town through diverse social support with the concept of cautious urban renewal . The release of the forces bound in this conflict from the mid-80s can also be seen in the history of many alternative projects.
Zapf "became a pioneer of 'outsourcing"' - employees set up independent branches abroad, first in 1986 in the alternative stronghold of Freiburg, later in Stuttgart and Munich. In 1985 the head office moved to Kreuzberg SO 36 , which has now been preserved and developed as an 'old building landscape' . (Evil, 104).
The multiplication of the potential with a still uniform concept with locations in West Germany - despite the still considerable hindrance from GDR transit routes and internal German controls - suddenly turned into an advantage with the fall of the Wall in 1989, because the now expected administrative concentrations and employee reunions in other companies and in the political bureaucracy could be organized from different geographical points. In addition, the fleet of vehicles had increased significantly. A special move by Zapf was to collectively take over the drivers of the GDR forwarding company Autotrans :
From 1990: The former 'socialist-inspired' way of working of the company manager Klaus Zapf and his reputation in the eastern part of the city made it possible to take on workers by mutual agreement after the fall of the Berlin Wall: "At that time, Zapf took over many workers from Autotrans ."
The concept now emerged of 'dismantling' complete logistical structures of institutions or companies, transporting them in a coordinated manner and also setting them up again elsewhere.
Large enterprise
"Since 1990, the company grew Zapf moves erratically: Meanwhile, 300 salaried employees moving a fleet of 57 Furniture transport vehicles, 36 trailers and furniture 500, swap bodies '."
In 1993, in addition to the 17,000 "normal" removals, the zapf Group specializes in major customers from business and government.
The business field was expanded to include logistics and storage, zapf umzüge was one of the first moving companies to use swap containers . Long-distance traffic was expanded, the "zapf Group" designed in the direction of a relocation network and specializes in large customers from business and government: The 1998 move of Allianz Versicherungs AG with 2,500 jobs within 3 weekends is what the company calls an "accolade for zapf berlin".
With the loyalty to the local business, however, "Zapf remained the largest freight forwarder in Berlin specializing in furniture removals" and a survey by Tagesspiegel on April 22, 1998 showed that "62 percent of all Berliners know the Zapf company." (Uebel, 104 f. )
As part of the move of the German Bundestag from Bonn to the Reichstag building in Berlin in the summer of 1999 , Zapf Berlin and Zapf Bonn carried out the relocations of a large number of the members of the federal ministries.
Present (21st century)
Withdrawal of the founder
After a long absence due to health problems, Klaus Zapf gradually withdrew from the operative business until 2002. However, he remained the contact person for management.
In 2004 “Klaus EH Zapf Transporte GmbH made a turnover of 20 million euros. She organized 37,000 removals, 17,000 of them in Berlin. Zapf has a total of 850 employees, 320 at its headquarters in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Zapf offers a heated storage capacity of 20,000 square meters for the interim storage of furniture, and negotiations are currently underway to purchase a further 30,000 square meters. "
In 2007 the GmbH was renamed an AG. On June 12, 2015, zapf moved after 30 years in Kreuzberg to Nobelstrasse in Berlin-Neukölln .
- The training area has been developed as a focus of the last decade. In addition to traditional office jobs such as office and freight forwarding clerks , in logistics as a professional driver or vehicle mechatronics technician , zapf umzüge also trains specialists for furniture, kitchen and moving services and specialists for warehouse logistics .
Social Commitment
- 2018: zapf umzüge works together with the Berlin Senate for a cultural change in companies and signs the charter for equality between women and men:
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Sven Reinholz, board member: "Zapf AG pays men and women the same salary for the same work."
Dilek Kolat , Berlin Senator for Health, Nursing and Equal Opportunities : “Our targeted cultural change binds employees to the company and ensures good cooperation in the workplace - factors that are essential for economic success. […] At zapf umzüge AG we know that mixed teams are ultimately more effective and rely on a modern corporate culture with gender equality. "
- Donations of material for children's parties, street parties, homeless shelters, workshops, rotation of the house project K9, Kinderhilfe, Schlesische 27, cardboard campaign in the BIZIM neighborhood, emergency accommodation for arriving people
- Support of the exhibition "Happy Habitat" of the Neurotitan Gallery in Haus Schwarzenberg on the subject of precarious living conditions
- Transport and storage of the exhibition "Room28" - educational project on the subject of "The fate of Jewish girls in the Theresienstadt ghetto "
Awards
- 1999: zapf removals Berlin achieved the best overall rating of eight nationwide moving companies in Berlin at Stiftung Warentest 7/99.
- "Best training company in Berlin" by the IHK Berlin 2008.
- IHK Berlin - At the YOU youth fair under the radio tower, the Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Crafts will honor zapf umzüge as “Best Training Company - Apprenticeships for Berlin 2009”. The award was presented by the Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit , President of the Chamber of Crafts Stephan Schwarz and IHK Managing Director Jan Eder.
- According to the website presseportal.de, zapf umzüge is the test winner of the 2018 study and with the quality rating very good (2017: good) the best moving company. The judgment is based on the overall low prices, the good service, the services of the packing aid, the best e-mail service, the competent advice on the phone and the quick preparation of offers after on-site appointments.
- 2019: Excellent training company 2019–2021 (recertification for excellent training quality).
- In March 2020, zapf removals received the “Live & Living Award” in the “Moving company category as the most popular provider”.
Sponsorship
Since its inception, Zapf Umzüge has supported cultural, school and primarily children and young people-related projects and campaigns, mostly as one-off (non-permanent) projects. Selection 2018:
- Commitment in cooperation with the Hermann von Helmholtz School in Neukölln on the subject of professional orientation - establishment of a specialist room
- Financing of the 1st prize for the best film at the annual youth and children's short film festival KUKI in the Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
- Support of the moving association " Save the Children "
- Sponsorship of the figure skating show "Eismärchen Berlin" of all Berlin ice sports clubs with 180 children and young people on the ice
- Cooperation with the Deutsche Kinemathek / Department of Education and Mediation - construction of a trick table for the holiday program. Planned support with the construction of the scenery
- Sponsoring / support with advertising for the Pop Kultur Festival
- Positioning of an installation at the East Side Gallery - support of the Friedrichshain / Kreuzberg district committee on the occasion of the Open Air Gallery on the Oberbaumbrücke
Remarks
- ↑ The press consistently gives 2000 as the year of retreat, but managing director Peter Zetzsche pointed out at Zapf's funeral in 2014 "that Klaus Zapf [..] withdrew from the operative business twelve years ago." (Kevin P. Hoffmann: The moving company is buried in Friedwald , in: Tagesspiegel , August 25, 2014. After the death of Klaus Zapf . Accessed on May 11, 2020.).
- ↑ Information on the website: 2006, move by Deutsche Bahn . Accessed May 11, 2020.
- ↑ Uebel, Zapf, p. 101. As early as the 1920s, piano transport was considered the basis of a haulage's performance in Berlin, and for Zapf this offer was an absolute must [...] In the 1980s, “six out of a hundred families in East Germany had their own -Berlin over a piano. According to the Berliner Zeitung on the evening of June 20, 1987 in L. Uebel: Moves in the divided and reunified city , in Uebel: From here to there , p. 96 f.
- ^ "After a legal dispute in 1986, the company slogan also had to be changed to Zapf removals with employee participation . In 1998 this addition was also dropped. ”Both quotations in Uebel, 102 f.
Web links
literature
- Lothar Uebel: From here to there. Apartment moves in from to Berlin. Ed .: Zapf GmbH, Verlag Der Goldene Stern, Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-9806759-3-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The founder's legacy is social pricing, internal democratic structures and reliability. For this: Mission statement . Accessed May 11, 2020.
- ↑ On the company's history (information with the year numbers preceded): Innovations and enhancements, accessed on May 11, 2020.
- ↑ L. Uebel, 102 without a date. According to other sources, these foundings took place as early as 1976.
- ↑ Report of the Berlin taz from November 11, 2015 - Exact name: Kombinat Autotrans , VEB supply transports Berlin . (Accessed on May 11, 2020).
- ↑ Website: References with major customers . Accessed May 11, 2020.
- ↑ Website, information under '1998', accessed on May 11, 2020.
- ↑ Berliner Morgenpost: About Klaus EH Zapf , March 13, 2005 Accessed: May 11, 2020.
- ↑ Sabine Beikler: How do more women get to the top? Berliner Tagesspiegel, November 30, 2018 . Accessed May 11, 2020.
- ↑ Press release of the Senate Department for Health, Care and Equality, September 24, 2018 . Accessed May 11, 2020.
- ↑ Information from website, 'press' . Accessed May 11, 2020.
- ↑ Zapf Sponsoring: Overview website .