Gardening Events

The Aebi Schmidt holding (ASH) with seat in Bussnang (TG) gained last year a net turnover of EUR 302 millions (CHF 471 millions). In the previous year EUR 241 millions were reached, whereby the range Schmidt was considered with nine months in the financial year 2007 only. Projected both the group conversion as well as the number of employees constant remained. To this pleasing result numerous large orders led at home and abroad. Particularly to mention are the orders of airport operators, that strengthen the position of the ASH as world-wide number 1 in this market segment. Appropriate dedicated systems have the British Ministry of Defense, the Turkish airport authorities (TR) under others and the airports Athens (GR), Stockholm (s) and Vilnius (LV) orders.
Very pleasing also the service business developed, while the conversion with agricultures and public utilities vehicles of Aebi remained constant. The paragraph of winter services products was easily declining due to the mild winter 2007/08. In hard could market shares contested market of the compact sweeping machines be made up for.
Also the firm’s structure was adapted to adjustments with firm’s structure and StandortenIm connection to the fusion between Aebi and Schmidt and the enterprise in three divisions was again grouped: the product divisions Aebi and Schmidt as well as the division sale and service with the help of this adapted organization, operating group far, are on the one hand the market to be better served and on the other hand the development, marketing, the purchase and production to be further optimized. The reorientation of the division Aebi made regular progress. On the one hand the Produktportfolio was settled and on the other hand the foundation-stone for a new production work in castle village with total investments was put by CHF 30 millions. The new areas are referred end of 2009. Frameworks of the group-far simplification of the right structure of the ASH became 3 Swiss Aebi companies only one society under the existing name Aebi & amp; CO. AG engine works with seat in castle village fuses.
View beside the new factory in castle village invests the ASH in the year 2009 also in the three other production locations pc. Blasien (D), got (NL) and Kielce (PL). A goal is it to optimize production further and to deepen punctually the eigenvalue creation. This will permit it to reduce the dependence from suppliers to strengthen the own innovative ability the efficiency to increase and the jobs effectively to secure.
„ I am proud, which reached the ASH in this short time since the fusion. There is a good and motivated crew at the work, which understands it to place the customers with its needs in the center. \ " peter Spuhler, Mehrheitsaktionär of the ASH says, obviously pleased.
Although the effects of the current difficult economic situation are hardly foreseeable, the management is confident that owing to the met measures the conversion be held and profitability can be further improved. It sets in particular on innovative and to the customer needs aligned products, so for example on the Viatrac Aebi VT 450, which stands in the middle in the introduction on the market. This vehicle sets new yardsticks in the segment of the multipurpose transporters owing to modern technology.
Aebi Schmidt HoldingIm April 2007 tuned the shareholders of the Aebi group (castle village, CH) and the Schmidt group (pc. Blasien, D) of a fusion of their enterprises too. Majority shareholder of this new group is Peter Spuhler. Schmidt with production locations in Germany, Holland and Poland is prominent in the winter services technology (snow removal machines, snow ploughs and spreading equipment), in the environmental technology (road cleaning, local devices and road repair), in the airport technology (evacuation of snow, smoothness fight and turning technology), in the course technology (evacuation of snow) as well as in the vehicle technology (electronics and software, equipment and hydraulics, vehicle change). Aebi (castle village) is the prominent manufacturer for the mechanical treatment and care of extreme tendency situations and particularly fastidious area as well as for the cleaning from traffic routes to each season.