Cartechnic 57740 (577400078) 77Ah battery

With 38 shareholders and 275 trading firms in 58 countries and sales by ATR members of over 26,6 billion euros, ATR can look back on half a century of rapid development and can look forward to an equally successful future. The course has been set. As early as the 1950s, a catalog association involving a number of wholesalers existed on the spare parts market in Germany. Leading the way were Matthies in Hamburg and STAHLGRUBER from Munich, which are still part of ATR to this day. In the mid-1960s, oil companies Esso and BP pushed their way onto the market with car accessory shops at service stations, thus creating considerable competition for the established companies on the spare parts market. The established companies therefore decided to pool their resources on the procurement market for car parts, car accessories and workshop equipment by founding a purchasing cooperative to strengthen their market position. And so in 1967, Auto-Teile-Ring GmbH, or ATR for short, was created. The founding members were wholesalers Auto-Steiger in Stuttgart, Matthies in Hamburg, Merkur in Wuppertal and Wessels in Osnabrück, joined soon after by STAHLGRUBER from Munich.