{"id":2771,"date":"2024-06-05T13:50:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T11:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mw1group.com\/history\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T16:43:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T14:43:59","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mw1group.com\/en\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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History<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our origin. Our milestones.<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Our history.\nTransformation for innovation. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Entrepreneurship has existed in the Grotebrune family for generations: the willingness to change things and help shape them.\nTo influence what happens in certain areas of the economy.\nThe family attaches great importance to sustainable business practices and fair treatment of employees.\nThey always have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with so many family businesses with a long tradition, our path was not a straightforward one: what began as a laundry in the late 19th century became the cornerstone of today’s group of companies for individual logistics solutions a good 100 years later with the founding of the first freight forwarding company.\nAnd we want to continue to successfully write this story.\nIn Lage and worldwide. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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1874 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foundation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

DBL Kotzenberg, Grotebrune family<\/p>\n<\/div>

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1982<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foundation: Spedition Reibchen, Helmut Grotebrune.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

As a classic truck forwarding agent with 30 trucks, goods from large companies such as BASF, Hoffmann’s St\u00e4rke and Dorus Leime (now Henkel) were transported to customers and also stored.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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1993<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foundation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

RedLine with Helmut Grotebrune as shareholder and managing director.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foundation: Spedition mw1, Jens Grotebrune and Klaus Grotebrune.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The sudden death of Helmut Grotebrune at the age of 58 left the family wondering what to do next – especially as the business model of a trucking company with a few major customers was no longer viable.Jens Grotebrune brought new impressions and ideas with him from his training at K\u00fchne & Nagel, and so Klaus and Jens decided to put these ideas into practice.\nAt the time, Klaus was managing an industrial laundry with 150 employees in H\u00f6velhof, but trusted his cousin’s ideas and joined the new company.\nmw1 was founded at Meierweg 1 – hence the name. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchase & revitalization of the Bergmann M\u00f6bel industrial sector into a modern logistics and commercial site, Jens Grotebrune and Klaus Grotebrune.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Klaus and Jens became aware of the old furniture factory in Kachtenhausen due to the constantly growing need for space and the demand for modern, approved storage space.\nHere they found a total of 98 (!) buildings, almost all of which were in a desolate state; internal working title: “Vereinigte H\u00fcttenwerke”.\nHowever, two large hall buildings were so appealing that the two entrepreneurs decided to buy the entire complex and modernize it from the ground up.\nAll requirements relating to building law, fire protection, occupational health and safety were to be implemented at the highest level. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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