| Type | GmbH |
|---|---|
| Industry | Material handling |
| Founder(s) | Ludwig Szinicz Heinz König |
| Headquarters | Wels, Austria |
| Key people | Georg Kirchmayr President Harald Schröpf MD Werner Töpfl MD |
| Revenue | 296,8 Mio. Euro (2010/11) |
| Employees | 1169 (2010/11) |
| Website | tgw-group.com |
TGW Logistics Group is supplier of material handling equipment and automated storage and retrieval systems for warehousing, production, picking and distribution, headquartered in Wels, Austria. The company engineers, produces and installs material handling solutions in different sizes, from small conveyor installations to complex distribution centers. The company name TGW comes from its original German name Transportgeräte Wels.
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TGW Logistics Group is a holding company which has operational subsidiaries in different countries in Europe and North America:
Among the top 20 materials handling systems suppliers published by Modern Materials Handling in 2009, TGW takes position No. 13. [1].
The company was founded in 1969 by Ludwig Szinicz and Heinz König in Wels, Austria, with a staff of 10 people. Its headquarters are still in Wels.
In 1987 the company opened its first subsidiary (TGW Transportgeräte GmbH) in Siegen (Germany). In 2001 TGW, Inc. was founded as subsidiary in the USA. Four years later TGW acquired the US material handling equipment supplier Ermanco, which is now known as TGW Systems, Inc.. The Austrian supplier of automated logistics systems Ecolog was acquired by TGW in 2007[2]. The company's subsidiary in France TGW France SAS was opened in 2010[3].