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A COMPANY ON THE<br />

ROAD TO SUCCESS<br />

Milestones at Humbaur GmbH<br />

• 1957 Founded by Anton Humbaur at<br />

Donauwörth as a seller of agricultural<br />

machinery (trailers, ploughs, grain mills, etc.)<br />

• 1978 / 1979 Decline in agricultural machinery<br />

sales. Anton Humbaur decided to include new<br />

products in his sales programme<br />

• 1980 Move to Gersthofen, construction of a<br />

new warehouse and office building<br />

• 1981 Entry into car trailer distribution and<br />

sales. In the initial phase, these were imported<br />

from Italy, converted for the German market<br />

and sold on from Gersthofen<br />

• 1982 Ulrich Humbaur, our present managing<br />

director, joined the company<br />

• 1984 We started manufacturing our own car<br />

trailers<br />

• 1985 Humbaur GmbH company founded<br />

• 1989 We stopped selling agricultural<br />

machines and accordingly increased our<br />

production of trailers for private and<br />

commercial use<br />

• 1998 We started to produce horse trailers<br />

• 2001 We moved into newly-built administration<br />

and production facilities (22000 m²)<br />

at Mercedesring, Gersthofen<br />

• 2004 First presentation of the heavy duty<br />

programme at the IAA in Hannover<br />

• 2005 Construction of a second production<br />

workshop at Gersthofen – state-of-the-art production<br />

technology across more than 23000m²<br />

• 2006 Expansion of heavy duty programme<br />

with 30-tonne flatbed turntable trailer<br />

• 2006 First presentation of the BIG ONE semitrailer<br />

product family at the IAA in Hannover<br />

• 2008 First presentation of the Rexus box<br />

trailer with sporty retro design<br />

• 2008 Expansion of the freight programme,<br />

additional BIG ONE semi-trailer models:<br />

BIG ONE COIL and<br />

BIG ONE CONNECT<br />

• 2009 Introduction of the new SPIRIT production<br />

model in the horse trailer product sector<br />

• 2009 Introduction of the new LOADY production<br />

model with innovative steel plate bridge<br />

in the professional trailer sector<br />

• 2009 Introduction of the new ALLCOMFORT<br />

and LEMANS production models with unique<br />

tilting bearing in the vehicle transport trailer<br />

sector<br />

• 2010 First completely bolted construction of<br />

some models in the heavy duty sector<br />

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