1974 | Establishment: Harry Bertrandt opens an engineering office in the Swabian town, Möglingen. |
End of the 1970s | Automotive development: entry into the design of vehicle components. |
1980 | Establishment of first office: Bertrandt Ingenieurbüro GmbH in Sindelfingen. |
1982-2011 | Expansion in Germany, Europe and the USA. Further additions to our range of services, for example Rapid Prototyping, modelling, testing, vehicle construction. |
1993 | Management buy-out: Dietmar Bichler and Heinz Kenkmann acquire the shares held by Harry Bertrandt. |
1996 | Stock exchange listing: The listing on the Frankfurt stock exchange on the regular market. |
1997 | Segment change 1: New market. |
1999 | Complete development: First driving prototype. |
2000 | Entrance into the aviation engineering: Subsidiary opens in Hamburg. |
2001-2004 | Equity participation: 2001 Porsche 25.01 per cent. 2004 ThyssenKrupp 25.2 per cent. |
2001 | New executive committee structure: Dietmar Bichler becomes CEO. |
2003 | Segment change 2: Prime Standard, Automobile. |
2004 | Strategy and organizational alignment: Cross-linking know-how through group wide organised competence centres, new services along the automotive value-added chain. |
2005 | Aviation: New Bremen subsidiary. |
2007 | New industries: Supporting Services for customers in the electrical engineering, energy, mechanical/plant engineering and medical technology sectors. |
2008 | Major shareholdings: Porsche 25.01 per cent (since 2001); LBBW Unternehmensgruppe (SüdKB) 24.99 per cent. |
2009 | Stock exchange: Bertrandt share in SDAX. |
2011 | Major shareholders: Porsche 25.01 per cent (since 2001); LBBW Group 5.29 per cent; Boysen 14.9 per cent; management/employees 13.88 percent. Expansion of our range of services relating to all aspects of electromobility. |
2012 | Targeted expansion of facilities and range of technologies along the entire process chain of product development. |
Since 2013 | Further expansion of our range of services relating to all aspects of the market trends of environmentally friendly mobility, safety, comfort and connectivity. |