Webasto Group Overview
Company Headquarters: Germany
Founded: 1901
Workforce: ~12,800
Company Working: Webasto Group manufactures, develops, and supplies roofs, ventilation, heating, cooling, charging systems, and air conditioning systems for the automotive companies. Its business segments are batteries and charging solutions, roofs, and heating and cooling. The batteries and charging solutions business segment offers charging station (hardware), installation and maintenance together with further supplementary services, such as the processing of payments for battery charging. It offers its solutions for cars, trucks, ambulances, and buses; and light-duty, off-highway, rail, marine, recreational, and special vehicles. It operates in 66 locations and 30 manufacturing plants across 34 countries, such as Germany, the UK, Italy, India, and the US. The key subsidiaries of the company are Webasto-Edscha Cabrio GmbH, Webasto Product Italy Srl, Webasto Thermo and Comfort UK Ltd, and Webasto (Schweiz) AG.
Strategy
Webasto Group strategizes to strengthen core fields of business and opening up new fields of business that match its competency. This helps the Group gain momentum in the automotive industry. It focuses on products and solutions for electromobility. In the batteries and charging solutions business, it has been considering extensive research & development projects for enhancing the charging capacity. For instance, Webasto Group developed a new electric charger that operates via mobile network or Bluetooth and, thus, is controllable via Webasto LiveApp and supports the activation of charging processes via Plug & Charge and dynamic load management. It offers its charging products through online distribution channels to strengthen its brand and generate revenue.
