July 2nd, 2009
Brenntag creates new sales region in Germany
Brenntag creates new sales region in Germany: www.brenntag.de 01.07.09
Brenntag, global leader in chemical distribution, has established a new sales region in Southern Germany located in Nuremberg, Bavaria. This will be effective as of July 1, 2009.
As a strategic step Brenntag GmbH, part of Brenntag Group, has terminated the Joint Venture Staub & Co. Chemiehandelsgesellschaft mbH. In addition Brenntag GmbH will take over the activities of Biesterfeld Chemiedistribution GmbH in Nuremberg.
Uwe Schültke, Managing Director Brenntag GmbH: „This strategic step enables us to provide our business partners with considerable advantages: Thanks to the acquisition of the activities of Biesterfeld in Nuremberg we gain a well-experienced team with excellent knowledge of the Bavarian market. Together with our international contacts to world class suppliers and our comprehensive distribution network in Germany we are able to assure a secured supply of Industrial and Specialty chemicals for our customers.“
About Brenntag in Germany
Brenntag GmbH operates via 16 locations throughout Germany and offers its business partners a wide range of products and value added services such as filling services, mixing and blending as well as technical support and services for various industries like Water Treatment or Specialty chemicals.
For more information please visit www.brenntag.de
Comment: This logical move after the announcement of the Stockmeier-Staub merger agreement could mark the beginning of a restructuring of the cross-participations German Commodity distributors hold in other companies operating more or less independently from one another. The Brenntag Group besides Brenntag Gmbh controls several other German distributors operating under their own original names and several medium size distributors or Pentists also hold cross or joint participations in other regional independently run companies. The German commodity distribution market represents a rather unique competitive situation in Europe.