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Autobid.de is a brand of Auktion & Markt AG
Company
Knowing exactly what you want. That's how to steer towards a strong future.
Auktion & Markt AG’s story
1988
The publicly appointed and duly sworn auctioneer Karl Rolf Muth founds the company Auktion & Markt. Initially, used vehicles are offered for sale in live auctions to dealers and private individuals.
2000
Auktion & Markt holds vehicle auctions exclusively for registered motor vehicle dealers; private buyers do not have access anymore.
2001
For the first time Auktion & Markt establishes its own auction centres in Germany and opens offices abroad.
2003
An online auction platform for used vehicles is launched: Autobid.de. Since then Autobid.de has become one of the most experienced and successful B2B platforms in Europe.
2004
Auktion & Markt assumes the legal form of a corporation. Since then the CEO has been the founder and owner, Karl Rolf Muth.
2005
The subsidiary “Auktion & Markt Autobid S.L.” is founded in Spain to take care of customers there.
2007
The vision of combining live and online auctions takes shape in the form of the first so-called Netlive auctions. In these auctions, dealers can bid along both live on location as well as online, in the comfort of their own office.
2008
Offices are opened in Luxemburg, Romania and Poland.
2009
The Auction Centre Baltic States opens in Riga.
2010
Autobid.de is available in 22 languages.
2011
The exclusive connection with the partner market webmobil24 is established. Now it is possible to directly export vehicles purchased in auctions.
Auktion & Markt’s quality management and environmental management systems are certified.
Autobid.de offers the first App for mobile use.
2012
Autobid.de is introduced onto the market as independent brand of Auktion & Markt AG, incorporating all business divisions.
Auto-auctions.gr is the first Autobid.de license partner abroad.
2013
The new propertybid.de Division, property auctions, is being established and will operate as a second brand alongside Autobid.de from now on.
The new Autobid.de Consulting Division expands the range of services offered by Autobid.de.
2014
The new Classicbid division is starting business operations – trading and auctions with classic cars.
2016
Autobid.de introduces the Notification Center so that customers can always be kept up to date about their individually configured status reports.
Auktion & Markt received the GOLDENE Lilie 2016. An award from the City of Wiesbaden for outstanding company commitment.
2017
Autobid.de launches a new app with a sophisticated bidder function in 22 languages onto the market.
2018
The Autobid.de brand was awarded the "BEST BRANDS 2018 Winner" as the image winner in the "Car auction houses" category.
The ClassicX café & restaurant has been providing culinary highlights in the Classicbid Zentrum Rheinhessen since 2018.
2019
In an independent selection procedure, Auktion & Markt AG impressed in particular with its innovative processes and organisational structures and received the "TOP 100 Innovator 2019" award.
Important to know
As owner-operated company, for years Auktion & Markt has promoted growth by building long-term business relationships based on trust. Personal contact and a close relationship with our customers – regardless whether suppliers or buyers – are of fundamental importance to us. It’s not for nothing that virtually the entire board of management will be familiar to you from seeing them on the auction platform at one time or another.
Being on the cutting edge of auction activity and at the hub of the market are just as important to Auktion & Markt AG’s company philosophy as the continual use of new technologies with the brand Autobid.de. That is how we link the tradition of an auction company that has more than 30 years' experience in thousands of auctions with innovations of the future.
