Gebrüder Weiss acquires Deutsche Transport Compagnie
The international transport and logistics company
Gebrüder Weiss is acquiring Deutsche Transport Compagnie Erich Bogdan GmbH & Co. KG (DTC) from Diehl with economic effect from 1 January 2017. The Franconian company with locations in Nuremberg, Loßburg and Lüdenscheid employs about 240 members of staff and is to be integrated into the Gebrüder Weiss network as a wholly-owned subsidiary. Both parties have agreed to keep the purchase price confidential. The acquisition is still subject to approval by the competition authorities.
Denser transport network in southern Germany
"As a member of System Alliance Europe, DTC has been an important partner of Gebrüder Weiss for many years and enjoys excellent customer relations," says Wolfgang Niessner, CEO of Gebrüder Weiss. Founded in Berlin in 1946, DTC has considerable expertise in national and international land transport, warehousing and contract logistics, in project logistics and customs, as well as in air and sea transport. "The integration of DTC into our own network of branches enables us to immediately offer our customers in southern Germany transport services from a single source," says Niessner.
The company will operate under the name "Deutsche Transport Compagnie Erich Bogdan GmbH & Co. KG" plus the suffix "A Company of Gebrüder Weiss". The established team will continue to be led by the current Managing Directors Manfred Heuer and Roland Kuhn.
Hub for Austria and Eastern Europe
The centre of the company's logistics activities is the DTC head office in Nuremberg, which will supplement the Gebrüder Weiss locations in Passau, Memmingen, Lindau, Aldingen and Esslingen. With a handling facility covering 11,500 square metres and a logistics facility of 19,200 square metres, the Franconian location is an ideal hub for transports between Germany and Austria as well as in the direction of Central and Southeast Europe.
About Gebrüder Weiss
With over 6,500 employees, 150 company-owned locations and a provisional annual turnover of 1.36 billion euros (2016), Gebrüder Weiss ranks among the leading transport and logistics companies in Europe. In addition to its core business of overland transport, air and sea freight and logistics, the company also operates a number of highly specialised industry solutions and subsidiaries under the umbrella of Gebrüder Weiss Holding AG, based in Lauterach (Vorarlberg, Austria).
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