Zeppelin (Group)

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Zeppelin GmbH, headquartered in Friedrichshafen and headquartered in Garching near Munich, is the holding company of an international trading, engineering and service group that offers products in the areas of sales and service of construction machinery, rental, drive and energy systems as well as engineering and plant construction.

The Group has around 11,000 employees at 220 locations in 43 countries and regions. In fiscal year 2021, sales of approximately 3.7 billion were recorded. EUR (as of March 2022) generated. The shareholders of the group are Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH with 96.25% and the Zeppelin Foundation (in administration of the city of Friedrichshafen) with 3.75%. Since Luftschiffbau Zeppelin is in turn fully owned by the Zeppelin Foundation, the foundation is indirectly the sole owner of the Group.

History
The roots go back to the development of the first airship LZ 1 by Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (1838–1917) and the founding of the Zeppelin Foundation in 1908.

In Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance at the beginning of the 20th century For several centuries, airships were manufactured and later operated the first commercial airship line between Europe and America. With the accident in Lakehurst, in 1937 the airship Hindenburg near New York was destroyed, the business activity in the field of airship construction came to a standstill.

After the destruction of the Zeppelin production facilities during the Second World War, Metallwerk Friedrichshafen GmbH was founded in 1950, which was later renamed Zeppelin-Metallwerke GmbH. This initiated a reorientation of business activities in the field of container and component construction. In 1995, Zeppelin Metallwerken GmbH became the current Zeppelin GmbH. In 1954, the company secured the distribution and service rights for construction machinery of the American manufacturer Caterpillar for West Germany; Since 1990, the partnership has existed for the entire, reunited Germany.

Over the years, Zeppelin-Metallwerke GmbH has been able to expand its business activities in large parts of Western and Eastern Europe. In 1994, Zeppelin-Metallwerke GmbH, today's Zeppelin GmbH, took over the tasks of a management holding company. The operating business was taken over by newly founded or existing companies in Germany and abroad. 2003 saw the expansion of the rental business with construction equipment and construction site equipment and in 2006 the bundling of all activities around Caterpillar and MaK engines into one company, Zeppelin Power Systems GmbH & Co. KG. In 2010, the Group divided its operating divisions into five Strategic Business Units, which was supplemented by another – Construction Machinery Nordics – in 2020. At the same time, the Z Lab Strategic Business Unit, founded in 2016, was merged into the Zeppelin Digit Strategic Management Center.

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