articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . july 2014 surplex gmbh industry used machinery trade founded 1999 headquarters d sseldorf germany area served worldwide key people michael werker ulrich stalter products used metalworking machinery used woodworking machines website www.surplex.com surplex gmbh is a d sseldorf based company that is primarily focused on buying and selling used machinery . the company buys and sells used machinery and industrial plants carries out internet auctions and offers appraisals and valuations . 1 in addition surplex is one of the few dot com start up companies that is still alive and profitable . contents 1 history 1.1 foundation 1.2 crisis 1.3 turnaround 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit foundation edit surplex.com ag was established by the brothers bruno and florian schick at the end of 1999 as a typical start up company of the dotcom era . 2 the core idea was to develop an online marketplace to simplify the trading of used machinery and to make the highly segmented second hand machinery market more transparent . this business model attracted many institutional and private investors . international venture capital consortia such as the carlyle group 3 and the french vivendi group invested a total of around eur 50 million . also prominent private investors including lars schlecker lars windhorst marc schrempp or the chairman of fiat paolo frescoe have invested in surplex . 4 crisis edit with the bursting of the dot com bubble surplex.com ag found itself in a struggle to survive . offices were closed the head office was transferred back from berlin to d sseldorf and most of the approximately 140 jobs were lost . 5 in march 2003 michael werker who had initially come to surplex from the traditional engineering company deutz became ceo . 6 turnaround edit it was only through a rebalancing of the company to include a focus on more traditional services that surplex was able to consolidate its finances . today surplex is no longer limited to virtual business processes but also offers real services around the application of used machinery e.g. personal consultation appraisals and storage . 7 used machines and production lines are marketed worldwide . furthermore surplex carries out big internet auctions live and online e.g. for companies like linde abb thyssenkrupp and bayer . 8 products edit the business to business platform from surplex is the european leader in selling used machines and equipment and was awarded the best platform in 2001 by forrester research . . at its peak the platform had more than 8 000 customers and 12 000 machines . surplex is the publisher of the world s largest magazine for used machinery and equipment communicator . with a circulation of 45 000 and more than 100 000 readers it reaches people in more than 100 different countries . references edit leistungsspektrum . surplex.com . retrieved 2010 09 02 . susanne ziegert 2000 06 14 . alte industrie verdient im neuen medium in german . welt.de . retrieved 2010 09 02 . b business partners surplex raises 30 million euro . . thefreelibrary.com . 2000 12 14 . retrieved 2010 09 02 . surplex.com ag 36 mio . venture capital . press1.de . retrieved 2010 09 02 . auch schrempp jr. & c. m ssen sparen . promi online h ndler surplex gibt berliner zentrale auf berliner morgenpost nr . 130 14 may 2001 p. 13 personalien in german . industrieanzeiger.de . 2003 06 16 . retrieved 2010 09 02 . mit full service volltreffer gelandet nc fertigung nr . 5 september 2006 p. 12 accessed on 5 . october 2007 archived march 30 2010 at the wayback machine . external links edit homepage of surplex gmbh retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title surplex & oldid 728893808 categories companies of germanycompanies established in 1999hidden categories cs1 german language sources de articles with wayback machine linksorphaned articles from july 2014all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages catal e tinadeutschfran aishrvatskiitalianomagyarpolskirom n sloven inat rk e edit links this page was last modified on 8 july 2016 at 10 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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