"Bad times are always the best ones for good ideas."

"Life is great, you should get another one."

The Bert Neckermann Group

PHILOSOPHY

It is our main objective to develop products and services that people need in their lives. bn group creates solutions for the daily problems of the many. That is important to us and, at the same time, forms a solid basis for our business. The diversification of products and markets in our own network has always been a cornerstone of our philosophy. This keeps us free from the absolute pressure to succeed in any single business at all costs and sufficiently flexible to weather new developments and crises. The group’s investors, as well as the team around founder Bert Neckermann, have always rewarded this with their loyalty, some for more than two decades.

HOLDINGS

Nekon A.Ş. is the beating heart of all the group’s activities in Turkey and at the same time the focal point for the development of new concepts on a global scale. Istanbul, with the many qualities making it an ideal location, is currently poised to become the global headquarters of the group.

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All enterprises of the group are subsumed under this label. Global communications and activities are conducted under the name bn group.

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bertworks identifies the personal perspective of founder Bert Neckermann. His share and personal interest in the group’s activities are organized hereunder.

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VISIONARY CONCEPTS

axmobil is a multimodal public transport concept on car basis that has the potential to substantially mitigate if not solve the pressing traffic problems of modern cities.

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Noti is the concept for a panic button in miniature format which offers security in all walks of life and integrates modern social networks and means of communication into the solution, rather than relying solely on traditional call centers.

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More and more senior citizens in Europe are facing limited financial means and continuously increasing cost of living in their home countries. Our concept aims to enable them to spend their twilight years in a sunny climate at affordable cost.

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TRADE & SERVICES

Outside the current pandemic times, taxis in Istanbul are one of the safest businesses imaginable. We work on establishing a large fleet of taxis, focused on Istanbul, and with our own efficient service concept.

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Here, too, the focus is on Turkey. We are developing more than 200 hectares of best agricultural land in order to harvest hazelnuts, truffles and other natural products and to distribute them globally.

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The group is also active in the production of high-quality food items, in particularly processed meat, in Asia, with a focus on India. In the medium term, we plan to expand their distribution to include other countries, both on our own and by means of joint ventures with food conglomerates.

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Helping people discover their full potential has always been dear to the heart of founder Bert Neckermann. His Life Business College offers training in sales psychology and rhetoric as well as self-reflection days based on his three circle theory. Special training sessions to help executives become better public speakers complete the course spectrum.

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DIGITAL BUSINESS

Corona Radar is the first global 100% anonymous corona warning app. It enables users not to trace risky encounters after they have already happened but avoid them in the first place, using a GPS-based early warning system.

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Bn group is also developing other apps for social interactions using the same principles of geographic closeness and complete anonymity.

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Reliable communication with secure data transfer is a key success factor for any enterprise today. In order to assure this in its own sphere of influence, bn group is working on developing its own apps for communication and database management.

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CV

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1961

Bert Neckermann grows up in the Swabian Alb, near Reutlingen in Baden-Württemberg. Raised to think independently and to have a sense of entrepreneurial chances, he develops a growing talent for persuasiveness in his youth.

1979

Bert breaks with the system and sets out into the world. The choice to leave school – training in hotel gastronomy & world trip follows. As a barkeeper, he travels throughout the southern hemisphere.

1984

The passenger transport industry becomes his livelihood as much as a new challenge for Bert. A decision with far-reaching consequences for his future life and career.

1985

Bert founds his own MiniCar company in Böblingen, trains himself in IT and programming and, over years, analyzes the problematic construct of mobility. This marks the beginning of the development of a new mobility concept, which will much later turn into the project Taxmobil.

1988

Bert enters the tourist industry. Founding of a travel agency and tour organization with a focus on Italy and Turkey. Exit through sale of the company.

1990

Bert becomes a lecturer and consultant in the fields of taxi, rental car, and business start-up at the IHK, in the newly-formed German states.

1991

Bert starts giving training and consultations, for individuals as well as companies. In analogy to NMC, the Neckermann Management College AG of his father, his business becomes known as LBC – Life & Business College Bert Neckermann.

1992

The „new mobility concept is starting to take shape. Transfer of his MiniCar Böblingen company to the family. However, Bert retains his positions as shareholder, controller, and consultant.

1994

Bert branches out his activities with an exclusive distribution business for construction components and industrial doors in the newly-formed German states. Founding of Runtec GbR. Exit through sale of the company.

1997

Bert enters the production cosmos. Starting as sales manager and acting as leading manager of SEKONA Federn in Trochtelfingen, Bert leads the company through many roadblocks onto the most profitable markets for steel springs. But mobility will not let him go so he returns to his main sphere of activity.

2003

After years of planning the time has finally come: The new mobility concept becomes a company. With the founding of Taxmobil GmbH Germany, the project for more effective, affordable mobility has officially started. Over the following years, Bert devotes himself to development and concepting, the start of funding, needs assessments, media presence, and, starting in 2007, the cooperation with renowned institutes, and software development.

2008

Transfer to Switzerland. Founding of Taxmobil stock coperation in Switzerland, to press ahead with Taxmobil from there and to realize the concept for the German-speaking market.

2010

The Taxmobil Kickoff Event, last round of funding before the start, marks the beginning of strong interventions against the mobility concept. Shitstorms and numerous attempts to prevent the project are setting in.

2012

Fresh attempt for the Taxmobil launch in Frankfurt a.M., in cooperation with the taxi union. Due to repeated negative interference from press, partners, and staff, the project comes to a stop once more.

2013

Regardless of previous foiled starts, the shareholders place their trust in Bert Neckermann. After the publication of the general assembly results, a third party files a petition in bankruptcy against the Taxmobil AG. Bert faces the fight against the litigation and works towards averting bankruptcy and starting anew from this point forward.

2017

Bert wins the fight against the Taxmobil petition in bankruptcy. As one of only three cases in the Swiss history of law, the litigation is disposed of in its entirety, and Bert Neckermann thereby exonerated. Except time, his investors lose nothing.

2017

After the litigation has been disposed of, new projects are developed based on the remaining options. Using the original Taxmobil technology, the system for the personal security concept NOTI Panic Button is developed. The Taxmobil Support Center is created in Turkey, an emergency call company bought, and NEKON A.S. founded, which has since then transformed into the operational center for the entire Bert Neckermann Group (bn-group).

2018

NOTI’s development in India leads to contact with Arthur’s Food Company (AFC), the sausage factory of an old friend and former co-developer of the Taxmobil technology. His friend’s upcoming expansion leads to a partnership with Bert – and the project AFC becomes a temporary priority.

2019

Arthur’s Food Company remains the main focus, meanwhile, Bert’s media image is being reconceptualized, and the development of a new organization with its core focus in Istanbul begins. Several new concepts and business propositions are examined and prepared conceptually.

2020

Bert plans focusing his activities on Istanbul as his headquarters. Arthur’s Food Company embarks on a joint venture with Dr. Oetker for food production and distribution of food in India. NOTI is also poised to start production and sales, while Taxmobil is also relaunched and starting to look out for a corporate partner. Simultaneously, preparations start for an assisted living project for senior citizens from Europe in Turkey. Bert also works on the professionalization and expansion of the group’s financing.

2020 II

Covid-19 causes a complete shutdown of all business activity. Bert, on the contrary, expands his activities, enters the digital sector, creates several cocepts for apps and decides to develop and publish his own corona warning app. Necdigit One GmbH is established as a digital hub, and Corona Radar is developed. Google and Apple refuse to accept the native app into their app stores. Therefore, Bert develops Corona radar as a PWA (Progressive Web App) and launches it globally in June 2020.

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