Surplex

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• Michael improvement
• Ulrich Stalter

The Düsseldorf Surplex GmbH is a trade company that is committed to the trading of used machinery.

The company buys and sells used machinery and industrial equipment, performs industrial auctions and provides expert opinions and reviews on.

Surplex is one of the few companies in the former New Economy, which is now in the black.

History

Foundation

The Surplex.com AG was founded by the brothers Bruno and Florian Schick end of 1999 as a typical start-up companies in the dot-com era. The core idea was the development of an online market place that should facilitate the trading of used machines and make the highly segmented used machine market more transparent.

This business model attracted numerous institutional and private investors. International venture capital consortia such as the Carlyle Group or the French Vivendi group awarded a total of EUR 50 million. Also prominent private investors such as Schlecker Lars, Lars Windhorst, Marc Schrempp or Fiat President Paolo Fresco boarded at Surplex.

Crisis

With the bursting of the dotcom bubble and the Surplex.com AG fell into a severe crisis. Offices were closed, return its headquarters were transferred from Berlin to Dusseldorf and dismantled most of the approximately 140 jobs. In March 2003, the Management Board chaired by Michael worker was taken, who had come from traditional engineering group Deutz Surplex.

Consolidation

Only the " shoulder to shoulder with the old economy" led to the consolidation of the company that writes constantly in the black since 2004. Today Surplex no longer limited to "virtual" business processes, but also provides all the "real" services around the recycling of used machines, such as personal advice, expertise and warehousing. Used machines and production lines are marketed worldwide. In addition, performs Surplex large industrial auctions ( live and online), such as Linde, ABB, ThyssenKrupp and Bayer.

Products

The B2B platform Surplex is the European market leader in the distribution of used machinery and equipment and in 2001 was recognized by Forrester Research as the best platform. In the top of the platform possessed more than 8,000 customers and 12,000 machines.

Surplex was editor of the world's largest trade magazine for used equipment and machinery (. Communicator ). With a circulation of 45,000 copies and more than 100,000 readers, the magazine reached interested in more than 100 countries.