SPITZKE in Figures
Our employees form the basis of success for all our activities. Following dynamic growth since the start of the nineteen-nineties, the SPITZKE Group now has a leading market position in Germany and is growing within the whole of the European economic area.
| Employees | 1,8000 (date: December 2012) |
| Total result (uncon- solidated) | Business year 2009/2010: 311 million € Business year 2010/2011: 330 million € Business year 2011/2012: 346 million € |
| International | ProRail (Netherlands) CFL (Luxembourg) Banedanmark (Denmark) Banverket (Sweden) Jernbaneverket (Norway) PKP PLK (Poland) ÖBB Infrastruktur (Austria) TCDD (Turkey) |
| National | Deutsche Bahn AG (DB Netz AG, DB ProjektBau GmbH, DB Regio AG, S-Bahn Berlin GmbH, S-Bahn Hamburg GmbH, DB Station&Service AG) |
| Municipal | Local public transport companies in Berlin, Dresden, Frankfurt/Main, Hamburg, Hanover, Halle (Saale), Karlsruhe, Cologne, Mannheim, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, and others. |
| Industry | Docks, sea harbours, goods transfer locations, mining and power companies, private railway track operators |
| 1936 | Formation of the Alfred Spitzke company, civil engineering contractor in Breslau in the then Silesia, today's Republic of Poland |
| post-1945 | Alfred Spitzke restarts his civil engineering and railway construction company in the western part of Berlin |
| 1991 | The present day Chairman of the Administrative Board of SPITZKE SE joins the company with a 50 per cent shareholding, Registration as SPITZKE GmbH, Hoch-, Tief- und Eisenbahnbau (building, civil engineering and railway construction), with registered offices in Berlin |
| 1992 | Setting up and development of the track welding expertise of the present day SPITZKE SCHWEISSTECHNIK GmbH |
| 1993 | Setting up and development of the electrical engineering expertise of SPITZKE GmbH, starting with contact rail installation for Berlin's urban railway |
| 1994 | Setting up and development of a branch office in Kaltenkirchen at the present day northern Germany centre of excellence in Schleswig-Holstein |
| 1998 | Foundation of SLG SPITZKE LOGISTIK GmbH in Berlin, establishment of construction site logistics expertise |
| 1998 | Takeover of a medium-sized contractor and renaming as SPITZKE HOCH- UND INGENIEURBAU GmbH in Berlin, establishment of structural engineering expertise |
| 1999 | Foundation of SCHIENENFAHRZEUGBAU GROSSBEEREN GmbH for the maintenance of track-laying machines and move of the company's registered offices to the Güterverkehrszentrum Berlin Süd (goods traffic distribution centre) in Großbeeren with a modern machine shop |
| 1999 | Foundation of SPITZKE SPOORBOUW BV in the Netherlands, first subsidiary for railway construction abroad |
| 2001 | Takeover of the track-laying company Longo GmbH and renaming as SPITZKE LONGO GmbH in Bochum (North Rhine-Westphalia) |
| 2001 | SPITZKE GmbH converted into a joint stock company and move into the new administration building and move of the group's head office to the Güterverkehrszentrum Berlin Süd in Großbeeren |
| 2002 | Foundation of SPITZKE SCHWEISSTECHNIK GmbH in Grossbeeren |
| 2003 | Takeover of Schomburg Grundbau GmbH and renaming as SPITZKE SCHOMBURG SPEZIALTIEFBAU GmbH with registered offices in Leer, establishment of special civil engineering expertise for the construction of catenary supports |
| 2004 | Foundation of SPITZKE SCANDINAVIA A/S with registered offices in Denmark, development of the railway construction subsidiary in Scandinavia |
| 2006 | Acquisition of a 60 per cent shareholding in KÖLNGLEIS Gleisbau GmbH & Co. KG |
| 2008 | Foundation of SPITZKE YALCO Ltd. Sti. with registered offices in Ankara for the development of railway construction activities in Turkey |
| 2008 | Takeover of the track-laying division of Xaver Riebel GmbH and renaming as SPITZKE RIEBEL GmbH & Co. KG with subsidiaries SPITZKE RIEBEL GLEISLOGISTIK GmbH and GLEISBAUTECHNIK UND BAUSTOFFHANDEL GmbH at the registered offices in Buchloe (Bavaria) |
| 2009 | Foundation of the joint venture NJD SPITZKE AS in Norway, development of railway construction activities in Scandinavia |
| 2011 | SPITZKE AG converted into a european joint stock company |
| 2012 | Majority interest in the firms WSO Wach- & Servicedienst GmbH and FEB Bahndienstleistung GmbH Nord |
