Piko - 40714 - Rolling Stock, Hopper, Transwagon - NIAG

Road Name History: Niederrheinische Verkehrsbetriebe AG (NIAG) is a modern, multimodal transport and mobility service provider with around 800 employees. Our group of companies creates connections for the region and beyond in the two core business areas of local public transport and logistics.

With our public transport offers, we move the people on the lower Lower Rhine, bring them safely to school, to work, to go shopping and to friends and relatives. Thanks to our bus line network with more than 2,200 kilometers and 36.5 million passengers a year, NIAG is the largest provider of bus-based public transport on the lower Lower Rhine. Added to this are our mobility offers such as car-sharing, transport-on-demand, etc

With our railway and our Rhine port, we ensure the transport and handling of bulk goods for the economy - and at the same time link two high-performance modes of transport that ideally complement each other in logistics. Our services - wagon and vehicle workshop, logistics management - help to keep supply chains continuously stable.

NIAG is integrated into the corporate structure of the Rethmann Group as a public-private partnership.

Our group of companies, whose roots go back to 1909, works as a public-private partnership: 49 percent are held by the districts and cities involved (43 percent Wesel district, 3 percent Kleve district, 1.26 percent Duisburg city, 1.11 percent City of Wesel, 0.63 percent City of Moers), 51 percent of the shares are held by Rhenus SE & Co. KG. Today we employ people in more than 70 professions.

Brand/Importer Information: PIKO Spielwaren GmbH is a company based in Sonneberg, Germany. With over 550 employees at production sites in Sonneberg (Germany) and Chashan (China) PIKO is one of the leading German and European manufacturers of model trains and accessories in the gauges G, H0, TT, N.

The traditional company was founded in 1949 in Chemnitz (Germany) and is managed by its owner Dr. René F. Wilfer since 1992. PIKO model railway products are sold primarily through the well-stocked model railroad stores. But also in the mail and online commerce and in toy sections of department stores you can purchase PIKO articles. In the field H0 and garden railway is PIKO full-line manufacturer and provides the interested model railroaders all he needed in the corresponding track size for his hobby, it covers locomotives and cars, to building models, tracks and complete starter-kits and its own digital system.

For friends of the gauges TT and N PIKO produces a lot of interesting locomotive and wagon models. PIKO model railroad products cover a wide variety of needs for model railroaders and are regularly tested and awarded by the domestic and international model railway press. For industrial and commercial customers PIKO has become a reliable supplier of customized printed model trains, which are often used as a high-quality promotional products or premium gifts. PIKO presents itself at various national and international exhibitions, such as the Nuremberg Toy Fair, as well as consumer fairs in Germany to the model railway enthusiastic audience. Every 2 years we celebrate in Sonneberg the "Open Day", which is visited by about 10,000 PIKO fans and has established itself into an unforgettable event and a fixed date for PIKO model railroad fans.