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BERGER GROUP – History

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BERGER GROUP – History

The keys to the future are to be found in a living past. Here we uncover the foundations on which the BERGER GROUP has grown and has continued to develop to this day.

1905 – FOUNDING YEAR

The origin of the BERGER GROUP lies in agriculture, in a small farm near Vilshofen, farmed by Nikolaus Berger. In 1905 his son, the master builder Johann Berger, inspired by the entrepreneurial spirit of the age in Imperial Germany, decided to become a businessman. In the town of Vilshofen Hans Berger's small building business quickly began to succeed in the face of established competitors. He soon started trading in sand and gravel on the Danube.

1905

1910 TO 1930 – LEAN TIMES IN THE BUILDING TRADE AND RENEWED ENERGY

The successful establishment phase ended abruptly with the outbreak of the First World War. Certainty in uncertain times came from the agricultural holding on the estate in the Ortenburgerstrasse, which secured their livelihood. However, thanks to attractive orders, in the 1920s BERGER energetically resumed his success story in Vilshofen, and proved himself to be a capable, reliable and quality-conscious business.

1910

1930 – 1960 THE WAR YEARS AND MECHANISATION

Along with the economic miracle after the Second World War came the first major growth stimulus for the company: contracts from outside the region increasingly strengthened the economic ground below the entrepreneurial feet. With the establishment of the road construction branch, BERGER increasingly spread beyond the borders of Vilshofen. A contributing factor was progressive mechanisation: lorries and construction machinery gradually began to replace the use of horse carts. The acquisition of the first concrete mixer lorry and a scraper dozer also occurred during this period, as did investment in a Barber-Greene asphalt mixer plant from America – a top-modern machine for those times.

1930

1970s to 1980s – WIESHOF PLANT

By the mid 1970s BERGER had reached an impressive size and the builder's yard in Vilshofen town centre had become too small. BERGER consolidated his attachment to Vilshofen with the future-oriented relocation of the builder's yard from the Ortenburgerstrasse to Wieshof outside the gates of the town. In 1974 building began there on a modern plant with its own prefabricating facilities as well as workshops and warehouses. The prefabricating plant was also the basis for establishing the bridge construction division in 1975.

1970

1980 TO 1990 – OPTIMISED ADMINISTRATIVE FACILITIES

By the 1980s, the ready-mix concrete division had grown so much that, in 1982, BERGER BETON GmbH was established, operating as an independent company alongside the construction sector from then onwards. Despite several moves, the office space was also no longer adequate for the company's development. From 1986, staff from three locations found a new home with optimal conditions for efficient administration in a newly built head office in Passau. The main office had to be expanded once more in 1996.

1980

1990 TO 2000 – GERMAN REUNIFICATION AND GROWTH IN EUROPE

The political changes in the 1990s had a huge effect on the the Group as it is today: the Berlin branch was established in 1991 immediately after reunification. At almost the same time, BERGER expanded further into Eastern Europe with the subsidiaries BERGER BOHEMIA in Pilsen (1992) and BERGER BAU POLSKA in Breslau (1995). The building boom after reunification was also the incentive for setting up a number of new ready-mixed concrete plants which are now the basis of a steadily growing supply network.

In this historic period of change, BERGER also succeeded in making a strategic entry into raw material extraction with the acquisition of several gravel works, quarries and a holding in the Slovakian cement works at Ladce. This was an important step for boosting construction capability and guaranteeing the sustainable development of the company.

In 1997 a venture into new project territory got off to a dramatic start: as the lead member of an SME working group, BERGER won the prestigious contract for building the new Nuremberg–Ingolstadt/Los Süd section of the ICE.

1990

2000 – GROUNDBREAKING MILESTONES

Further large-scale projects followed after the turn of the millennium: from the complete reconstruction of large sections of highway in Poland and the Czech Republic; to entry into the PPP business model in Germany where BERGER, as a member of an international project consortium, is responsible for the construction, maintenance and operation over 30 years of the A8 Munich–Augsburg PPP pilot project and A94 Isental motorway.

The BERGER GROUP took further future-oriented development steps in 2012 with the start of the special foundation engineering division by BERGER Grundbautechnik GmbH and, in 2013, the development of the "north" working group with ready-mixed concrete plants in Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein.

In 2016 a modern office complex was completed in Werneuchen – a landmark step to be able to guarantee long-term optimum administrative and engineering services in the metropolitan area of Berlin. In addition to this the Group also prepared itself for the future from a legal perspective by changing the main parts of the company from German GmbHs to European incorporated companies.

2000

TIMELINE

1905  Hans Berger establishes a building company in Vilshofen
1909 Hans Berger purchases the building yard Ortenburger-/Aidenbacherstrasse in Vilshofen
1958 Berger builds barracks in Freyung and Regen. Subsidiary established in Munich
1959 Berger builds the first asphalt plant in Blindham/Neustift
1960 Berger starts the road construction division
1963 Berger sets up the first concrete plant and purchases his first 3.5 cubic metre concrete mixer lorry
1964 Berger purchases the first scraper dozer
1970 Berger sets up the asphalt plant in Maierhof
1974 Berger starts building the Wieshof plant
1975 Berger founds Berger Bau GmbH and builds up the bridge construction division
1978 Berger completes the Wieshof production facility
1982 Berger establishes Berger Beton GmbH
1986 Berger moves into its new head office in Passau
1991 Berger sets up a branch office in Berlin
1992 Berger starts in Czechoslovakia with the subsidiary Berger Bohemia a.s.
1993 Berger begins building its plant in Werneuchen
1995 Berger starts in Poland with the subsidiary Berger Bau Polska sp. z o.o.
1997 Berger wins the large-scale order for the new ICE section Nuremberg – Ingolstadt/Los Süd
1999 Berger purchases a significant shareholding in the Slovakian Ladce Cement Works
2007 As part of the consortium "autobahnplus", Berger wins the contract to build the PPP model "A8 München – Augsburg“
2008 Berger wins a contract to build the approx. 27 kilometre highway S3 between Szczecin and Gorzow
2012 Berger starts the special foundation engineering division by acquiring the company Eurosond GmbH Grundbautechnik (now BERGER Grundbautechnik GmbH)
2015 As part of the consortium "Isentalautobahn", Berger wins the contract to build the PPP model "A94 Forstinning – Marktl“
2016 Completion of a new office complex in Werneuchen near Berlin
2017 The main BERGER companies change their legal forms from German GmbHs into European companies (SE) to sustainably strengthen and continue the company’s growth strategy
2018 BERGER takes over Würzinger Tiefbau GmbH and expands its promising business segment into the BERGER Netzbau GmbH
2019 By the purchase of Emil Väth GmbH Schotterwerke, BERGER extends its regional presence in northern Bavaria and enlarges its mineral resources division
2020 Completion of a new office complex in Pilsen
2021 Acquisition of the railway construction company ZPK in the Czech Republic
2022 The long-term planned change of generations in the Executive Board announced in spring 2020 is completed. All new Executive Board members are long-standing employees of the BERGER Group

 

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