Company needs capital

Czechs are now also getting involved in Rosenbauer

Rosenbauer and Tatra work together on fire-fighting vehicles used in forest fires.

(Bild: Dostal Harald)

Together with a company owned by Red Bull heir Mark Mateschitz and with the support of Raiffeisen Upper Austria, Stefan Pierer has put together a package to buy shares in Rosenbauer - but will the KTM owner win the race? Tatra has also expressed interest. The truck manufacturer has business ties with the firefighting equipment supplier.

Stefan Pierer has long been associated with Rosenbauer and the upcoming capital increase. In 2006, the KTM boss sold his shares in the fire equipment supplier - now he could be celebrating a comeback as a co-owner.

There is much speculation and conjecture - but the race for the shares in the company, which operates from Leonding (Upper Austria), has not yet been decided.

The capital increase is intended to strengthen equity and enable the Group's further growth.

Der damalige Aufsichtsratschef Rainer Siegel bei der Hauptversammlung am 14. Mai 2024 in Linz

Pierer and Mateschitz hold 66.67%
Pierer has positioned himself: Pierer Industrie AG founded PiMa Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH together with Mark Mateschitz Beteiligungs GmbH, which in turn holds 66.67 percent of Robau Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH, in which two companies of Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich (Raiffeisen Beteiligungsholding GmbH, Invest Unternehmensbeteiligungs AG) together hold the remaining 33.33 percent. But will the Austrian package also be awarded the new shares? It remains to be seen.

After all, the world's leading fire equipment supplier is also arousing the interest of others. Tatra, for example, has expressed its interest. The truck manufacturer is based in Koprivnice in the Czech Republic and has a turbulent company history. There are close ties with Rosenbauer, particularly in the area of fire-fighting vehicles for forest fires.

Green light from shareholders in mid-May
"We need to resolve the financing situation in order to reduce the order backlog again and increase output and profitability," said CEO Sebastian Wolf at the Annual General Meeting in mid-May. There, the shareholders finally gave the green light for the capital increase. Since then, the rumor mill has been buzzing...