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50 jahre froede
  Company History

1885 August Fröde launches his furniture transport business in Bischofswerda, Saxony.

1889 Georg Epp launches his forwarding company in Stuttgart.

1948 August Fröde company is disappropriated by the National People's Army.

1959 '1st February', the Fröde Company is founded by Werner Fröde and Doris Fröde-Epp in Lörrach

1960 Fröde Möbelspedition AG is founded in Basel, Switzerland

1964 Georg EPP in Stuttgart is taken over by Werner Fröde and Doris Fröde-Epp

1968 New furniture transportation begins in Germany and Benelux

1977 New logistics site purchased in Weil am Rhein

1988 New furniture transportation begins throughout the EU

1989 Georg Schmidt (Fröde Group truck fleet company) taken over

1992 MLiS (furniture logistics in the system) is founded

1993 Logistics site expanded to 3000 sq m

1998 Fröde works with regional distributors in the hub system

1999 Mach 3000 is founded in Weil am Rhein: "The European Furniture Transport Network"

2000 3000 sq m container logistics centre opened

2003 Introduction of a new forwarding software

2004 Expansion of logistics concept to include the new EU member states

2006 Franchisee in the Deutschen Textil Logistik (DTL) (German Textile Logistics Company)

2006 Founding member of Cube³ with 3 companies for the distribution of small shipments of new furniture

2007 Franchisee in the Bike-Logistik (Bike Logistics)

2007 Fröde Möbelspedition AG Basel is awarded the status of "zugelassener Empfänger" (ZE) (authorised consignee)

2009 '1st February', the 50-year anniversary of the Fröde Company

 

   
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