The color matches the Fernbusbranche go further. That is, however: The great diversity decreases. In winter, the yellow post buses will disappear from the scene. What has been yellow, then green: On November 1, the No. 1 industry, Flixbus, the postal subsidiary will assume
Only two months we have negotiated, reported Flixbus CEO Andrè Schwämmlein. It has gone quickly because the business for both sides was a good option strategically. In other words: The Post wanted to get rid of a division of the not loomed even after three years, that is to earn their money. And Flixbus – as drivers of continued consolidation in the remote bus market – has launched a competitor to control
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Only one and a half years ago that the pioneers in the newly liberalized Fernbusmarkt – Flixbus and MeinFernbus – joined forces. Flixbus was then the cerulean Busfarbe on, MeinFernbus the brand name -. Also because Flixbus grip appeared for the planned entry into Europe
“We are all on an equal footing”
For two German Home -ups was a European, as Schwämmlein says of one of the founders Flixbus beginning, 2015. “The merger was a spark for us. Just so we could a route network in Germany and beyond to build. “
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Flixbus, the leading provider of coach tours in Germany, accepts the Fernbussparte Deutsche post. Thus, the only recently liberalized market continues to consolidate, as our graph of Statista shows. According to data of the research institute IGES is the market share of nearly 70 percent Flixbus (second quarter). With the acquisition of the post bus lines from 1 November the leader will expand its dominance further. Total currently almost 300 long-distance bus in Germany are served.
The Flixbus chief Jochen Engert, Daniel Krauss and just Schwämmlein then took over the daily operations, the MeinFernbus CEO Torben Greve and Panya Putsathit switched to the advisory board. Thus, the constellation is today. The five young men were all involved in the negotiations with the Post. “We are all on equal footing,” enthused Schwämmlein, who is responsible for the strategy, already a half years ago.
Greve and Putsathit are now about 40, Engert, Krauss and Schwämmlein center 30. The school and college friends founded a few years ago and MeinFernbus Flixbus when it was foreseeable that buses are likely to make on long-distance train and car competition. Schwämmlein and Engert were previously at Boston Consulting, Krauss worked as IT manager at Microsoft, Greve came from the web.
Flixbus operates the buses do not even
The liberalization of Fernbusmarktes, the the conservative-liberal government announced in late 2009 and which came into force in early 2013, the start of a new career was. The business idea: Flixbus operates the buses not even a partner network now about 200 medium-sized bus company accepts the rides
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The yellow will soon disappear: The Post has sold its Fernbussparte to Flixbus
The Flixbus team with around 1,000 employees in Berlin and Munich takes care of the route and network planning, price management and distribution. With the Postbus takeover an office in Bonn is to come – not excluded that soon change some postman in the start-up
Schwämmlein considered the success story of long distance buses still somewhat incredulous.. The expectations of the founders, who had outlined five years ago on a white sheet of paper, as they wanted the buses by Germany, were far exceeded.
A piece of history of mobility?
” We have the opportunity to write a piece of history of mobility that makes us a little proud “2014 went from zero to a hundred. Because drove ten million passengers with the green and blue buses in Germany – or to Amsterdam, Milan, Prague, Vienna , Meanwhile, there are roughly twice as many.
The price war comes, however, to the substance. The industry is consolidating in a rush. Big names such as National Express (with City2City) or the ADAC (post bus) retreated quickly back. Flixbus took until the beginning of July, the company Megabus, a subsidiary of the Stagecoach Group from the UK – an important component in France- and Italy business
As the only major adversary in the long-distance transport remains only the German railway, which on some long-distance routes the so-called. IC bus and uses on Berlin routes to Berlin-bus. When will accepts Flixbus rail buses – or vice versa? Schwämmlein laughs and tries to calm the fears of a rise in prices in this duopoly.
Hard business
The expectation that the concentration in the industry, prices also rise, had not fulfilled, he says. In fact, the bus tickets still cost usually significantly less than the ticket of the web, even if they tried to keep up with special offers step.
From the expansion history is now soon be an economic success story. But to make money in Fernbusgeschäft is difficult. Some medium Buspartnern threatened because slowly assumed the air. Schwämmlein expects black figures in business in Germany this year. Overall, it will not even be enough to come into profit.
utilization is the alpha and omega
These probably the start-up losses and investments in neighboring European countries are still too high. That the remote bus giant economy gains stability, is also the expectation of the American financial investor General Atlantic, the 2015 participated in Flixbus.
The nuts and bolts of the economy is the utilization of the buses. The ratio of 50 percent, which is determined by the Federal Statistical Office as an average Fernbusmarkt, is not enough for profitability. “Flixbus located in Germany about” assures Schwämmlein. “But it is clear: We have to get the bus full.”
The acquisition of Postbus is designed to help improve utilization, as (in time) parallel route offers should be abandoned. Hundreds of thousands of customers are ever driven Postbus says Schwämmlein. You should remain remote bus customers in the reduced competition. Finally Flixbus “samey”.
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