Organisation
About Louwman Group
Louwman Group is a family business established in 1923. We work based on our mission: the passion to move people. Customers, employees and society are central to all we do.
We want to offer them the best-fitting mobility. We live by four core values: customer driven, continuous improvement, feeling responsible, and together we are Louwman.
The Louwman Group activities are allocated across five divisions. There is also a group staff and the Louwman Museum.
With import companies for such automobile brands as Toyota, Lexus, Morgan and Suzuki, Louwman Group has been among the largest automobile distributors in Europe for decades. Motorcycles and outboard engines are also familiar sectors. The Louwman Dealer Groep covers more than 70 retail locations.
But our passion to move people goes even further. As a provider of healthcare assistive aids and a specialist in adapting vehicles and residences, we, together with Welzorg and RSR Revalidatieservice, support customers with functional or mobility limitations. In addition, our activities include those in the area of (private) leasing and financing, parts supply, logistics and real estate and we have our own Louwman Museum.
On this solid foundation, we are developing ourselves as a mobility provider in an increasingly broad perspective. For example, we opened auto.nl, a webshop for cars, and we conjoin various mobility solutions with our own label, Driven, and we think sustainably with Fietsvoordeelshop.nl and car-sharing company WeGo. And together with leading partners, Mobility Invest Group focuses on various transportation services in subscription form.
Group Services
Louwman Group Services unburdens the Louwman Group operating companies by providing support for business processes.
Innovation, Digital & Data
ID&D has a broad, connecting role within the Louwman Group. The division consists of a remarkable composition of companies, with the focus on collaboration with other divisions and operating companies. With the assistance of the teams at Customer Experience Center, Insights Reporting and Experience, we work on innovative projects in the areas of media, technology and new mobility.
Louwman Care
Louwman Care is composed of seven operating companies. Together they focus on maximum independence for senior citizens and people with physical disabilities. In broad-brush terms, this ranges from providing assistive devices to adapting cars, residences and workplaces.
Louwman Retail Automotive
The Retail Automotive division consists of the Louwman Dealer Group, which covers more than 70 retail locations, and Louwman Exclusive, in Utrecht.
Wholesale Automotive
Setting the pace in mobility: Louwman Group's vision certainly applies to Wholesale Automotive. Because, as the importer of brands including Toyota, the brand with the lowest average CO2emissions per car per kilometre, the division is responsible for the sale of a large share of the hybrid cars driving around on Dutch roads. There's a good reason that the Toyota Yaris was chosen European Car of the Year this year for the third time. Toyota is also the front runner in the area of hydrogen vehicles.
Louwman Executive Board
Eric Louwman
President
Paul de Krom
Chief Executive Officer
William Bontes
Chief Financial Officer
Louwman Executive Committee
Jan-Christiaan Koenders
Chief Wholesale
Martin Post
Chief Retail Automotive
John Naborn
Chief Care
Marco Broere
Chief Auto.nl
Willem Verschuur
Chief Innovation Digital & Data
Mark Vriend
Chief Bikes
Edward
Chief Group Services
Eric Louwman
President
Pual de Krom
Chief Executive Officer
William Bontes
Chief Financial Officer
Marlène Volf
Chief Corporate & Legal Affairs Officer
Alice Diels
Chief Human Resources Officer
Secretary
Gineke Barelds
Secretary to the Executive Board and Executive Committee
“At Louwman Group, we aim for long-term relationships with our stakeholders.”
— Marlène Volf, General Manager of Legal & ComplianceIt's a joy to work every day in a family business in which customer-orientation is in the DNA and where the focus is on long-term relationships with stakeholders.
It's a joy to work every day in a family business in which customer-orientation is in the DNA and where the focus is on long-term relationships with stakeholders.