1924
Company founded by Anton and Gunda Messingschlager on Pödeldorfer Street in Bamberg.
1930s
Company moves into Brennerstraße 8, just behind the Bamberg train station.
1945
Destruction of the company building by air attack.
1948
Death of Anton Messingschlager. His son, Rudolf Messingschlager takes over the company at the age of 15 years old.
1949
The company moves into a newly acquired site in the “Vorderen Graben“ in Bamberg, Germany.
1957
The company moves again due to space and infrastructural reasons from Bamberg's city center to Lauter.
1969
The final company move to approximately 13,500 m² of purchased land and construction of an office building at the present site.
This relocation was subsequently found to be the right decision, because over the years the company had enough room to adapt our offices and warehouses to growing demand. At this point the new location caters to transportation routes and is ideal as the next motorway exit only is located only 4 km away and the next ICE-Station located only 10 km away.
1970s
Intensification of the cooperation with Kenda.
1989
Benno Messingschlager joins the company after finishing his economics and sports studies as the third generation.
1993
Intensification of the cooperation with Velo.
1995
Sale of the assembly lines and brand Centurion. Focus on bike parts.
1996
Intensification of the cooperation with KMC.
2003
Transfer of management to Benno Messingschlager.
2007
Completion and inauguration of a new warehouse with 1.160 m². Completion of the probably largest warehouse for bicycle parts in Europe with a over 7,000 m² high rack warehouse.
2008
Building up the warehouse in USA.
2012
Extension of stock capacity to more than 14,000 m². Start of automated warehouse system.
2012
Opening of the Concept Bike-Cafe and Bike-Park on the company premises.
2013
N-TV Hidden Champion Award: 1st place in the category "transition from generation to genereation"
2015
Bavaria’s Best 50 Award
2016
Extension of the office complex by 500 m²
2017
Intensification of the cooperation with Brose.
2019
Intensification of the cooperation with Bafang.
2020
Expansion of the high-bay and incoming goods warehouse to over 16,000 m²
2021
The Hama group of companies from Monheim takes over the majority share of the Messingschlager GmbH & Co. KG
