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What we compareArtegaABT
Country in archiveGermanyGermany
Founded20061991
FounderKlaus Dieter FrersAbt family
HeadquartersDelbrück, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyKempten im Allgäu, Bavaria, Germany
Name originThe name of the company was suggested by Manfred Gotta, a German brand-development expert, when Klaus Dieter Frers founded Artega in 2006. It is a coined name and does not come from a founder's surname.ABT is the surname of the Abt family of Kempten im Allgäu. The family business goes back to 1896, when Johann Baptist Abt's blacksmith and horseshoeing tradition began, and Abt Sportsline GmbH was founded in 1991.
Selected modelsArtega GT, Scalo, KaroAudi A4 DTM, Audi R8 LMS GT3, Abt R8 GTR
Earliest archived brand logo2006—
Latest archived logo20061990s
Archived logo assets11

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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