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Wacker - Schall - Liechtensteinische Landesbank - Brose - Leitz - TÜV Süd - Losberger
A: Hanns-Seidel-Platz 4, D-81737 München. Tel.: (+49-89) 6279-0. Fax: (+49-89) 6279-1770. URL: http://www.wacker.com. E-Mail: info@wacker.com
Management: Dr. Rudolf Staudigl (President & CEO); Dr. Joachim Rauhut; Dr.Wilhelm Sittenthaler; Auguste Willems
Supervisory Board: Dr. Peter-Alexander Wacker (Chairman), Matthias Biebl, Dr. Werner Biebl, Franz-Josef Kortüm, Dr. Thomas Strüngmann, Dr. Bernd W. Voss, Dr. Susanne Weiss, Prof. Dr. Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, Peter Áldozó, Dr. Konrad Bachhuber, Anton Eisenacker, Marko Fartelj, Uwe Fritz, Eduard-Harald Klein, Manfred Köppl, Seppel Kraus
Field of Business: chemical company, also active in semiconductor production.
Divisions and Products: WACKER Groups operational business is represented by five business divisions: WACKER SILICONES, WACKER POLYMERS, WACKER POLYSILICON, WACKER BIOSOLUTIONS and SILTRONIC
Main Markets: semiconductor and solar industries, electrical and electronics industries, automotive industry and transportation, pharmaceuticals, household and personal care, construction, textile industry, pulp and paper, paints and coatings, rubber and plastics, printing inks, adhesives and composites, food, agrochemicals, specialty chemicals, biotechnology, chemical industry
Group Companies: Worldwide 26 production sites and over 100 sales offices
Major Shareholders: Wacker Chemie AG's laragest shareholder is Dr. Alexander Wacker Familiengesellschaft mbH, Munich, that holds over 50 % of the voting shares ins Wacker Chemie AG.
Blue Elephant Holding GmbH, Pöcking, holds over 10 % of Wacker Chemie AG.
Artisan Partners Limited Partnership, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, holds under 3 % of the voting shares of Wacker Chemie AG.
Corporate Philosophy: WACKER is a leader in the chemical and semiconductor sectors, pushing ahead with technical innovations and the development of new products for the world's key industries. WACKER is organized as a goup of independently operating units with extensive responsibility under one strong roof - this provides the necessary flexibility and resolve. Everything we do is conducive to global networking and cultural integration.
Highlights (Last-Next Year): Listed on the M-DAX
Founded: 1914
Turnover: € 4.748 bn group (2010)
Number of Employees: 16,314 (2010)
See also: Wacker AG Company profile
A: Gustav-Werner-Straße 6, D-72636 Frickenhausen Germany. Tel.: (+49-7025) 9206 0. Fax: (+49-7025) 9206-622. URL: http://www.schall-messen.de. E-Mail: info@schall-messen.de
Management: Paul Eberhard Schall (Mng. Shareholder), Bettina Schall (Mng.Dir.)
Field of Business: Trade fairs organization in Germany and Europe.
Trade fairs for:
-Quality Assurance
-Assembly and Handling, Bonding
-Plastics Processing
-Optical Technologies
-Sheet Metal working and joining Technologies
Main Markets: Germany and Europe.
Group Companies: Messe Sinsheim GmbH; Pescha Media-Agentur
New Strategies/Products: New Trade Fairs in 2010:
- Stanztec
- Microsys
Corporate Philosophy: We concentrate our profound know-how organizing fairs central in our head office P.E. Schall GmbH & Co. KG which presents more than 45 years the most successful private fair company. We distinctly accelerate the advancement of our service characteristics. Only with innovative offers for our exhibitors we can meet the requirements of the future, encounter the challenges of the fair market and can exploit all our capabilities of success.
Highlights (Last-Next Year): i-plast India in 2011
Fabtec India 2011; Jubilees 2011:
-25 years Control
-30 years Motek
-30 years Fakuma
Jubilees 2012:
-20 years Optatec
Special Remarks: The company's objective is to strengthen the presence of Schall trade fairs on European markets
Founded: 1962
Turnover: € 15 m (2010)
Number of Employees: 23 (2010)
See also: Schall Company profile
Liechtensteinische Landesbank Aktiengesellschaft
A: Städtle 44, Postfach 384, FL-9490 Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Tel.: (+423) 236 8811. Fax: (+423) 236 8822. URL: http://www.llb.li. E-Mail: llb@llb.li
Management: Roland Matt (CEO); Dr. Kurt Mäder (member), Urs Müller (member), Christoph M. Reich (member)
Board of Directors: Dr. Hans-Werner Gassner (Chairman); lic. oec. publ. Markus Foser (Vice-Chairman), Markus Büchel, Dr. iur. Felix R. Ehrat, Ingrid Hassler-Gerner, Roland Oehri, Konrad Schnyder
Field of Business: Modern universal bank, active in all sectors of domestic and international banking business: private banking, asset management, fund services and trust services, securities and foreign exchange dealings, traditional savings and lending operations
Divisions and Products: Domestic Clients: Eduard Zorc (Head of Division) International Clients: P. Daniel Bischof (Head of Division)
Institutional Clients: Natalie Flatz (Head of Division)
Group Operations & Services:
Stephan Schneider (Head of Division)
Main Markets: Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Austria. Extension in new markets: through selected partners in Central and Eastern Europe and via our business bases in the United Arab Emirates
Group Companies: Operates 4 branch offices in Liechtenstein.
Operative subsidaries:
- Liechtensteinische Landesbank (Schweiz) AG
- Liechtensteinische Landesbank (Oesterreich) AG
- Bank Linth LLB AG
- LLB Asset Management AG
- LLB Fund Services AG
- LLB Fondsleitung AG
- Jura Trust AG
Major Shareholders: Principality of Liechtenstein
Highlights (Last-Next Year):
- Retention of the three pillar strategy: Focus on already launched growth initiatives
- Implementation of the cost saving and efficiency improvement programm
- Implementation of the divisional organisation structure
Special Remarks: State guarantee for savings deposits and for own medium-term deposit notes; Total customer assets under administration: CHF 48.1 bn (December 31, 2011)
Founded: 1861
Total Assets: CHF 21.1 bn (December 31, 2011) (2011)
Number of Employees: 1,123 (December 31, 2011) (2011)
See also: Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG Company profile
Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Coburg
A: Ketschendorfer Str. 38-50, D-96450 Coburg. Tel.: (+49-9561) 21-0. Fax: (+49-9561) 21-1429. URL: http://www.brose.com. E-Mail: info@brose.com
Second Address: Mailing Address: Postfach 1353, D-96403 Coburg
Management: Jürgen Otto (CEO); Jan Kowal (President Brose North America); Reinhard Kretschmer (Business Division Drives), Dr. Reinhard Meschkat (Production); Periklis Nassios (Business Division Seat Systems); Thomas Nösekabel (Central Administration); Kurt Sauernheimer (Business Division Door Systems); Thomas Spangler (President Brose Asia)
Supervisory Board:
Shareholders' board:
Michael Stoschek (Chairman),
Julia Stoschek, Maximilian Stoschek, Christine Volkmann, Gabriele Volkmann.
Advisers to the board:
Dr. Wolf-Dieter Kirchner (President), Franz-Josef Kortüm, Prof. Dr. Günther Schuh
Field of Business:
The Brose Group develops and produces mechatronic systems, electric motors and electronics for car bodies and vehicle interiors at 53 locations in 23 countries. The current focus is on the development of new products aimed at raising efficiency and thus cutting CO2 emissions, as well as raising safety and comfort. The company is the world's leading manufacturer of window regulators, door systems, ABS motors and HVAC blowers, the European leader for electrical seat adjustment systems and the European number two for closure systems.
Divisions and Products:
Systems for doors:
- Manual window regulators
- Mechanical door latches
- Power window regulators
- Window regulator electronics
- Modular door systems with wet/dry side separation
- Door systems with integrated door frame
- Door systems with highly integrated plastic carrier
- Drive units for swing doors
- Lightweight door systems
- Modular liftgates with integrated drive
- Liftgates with plastic functional carrier
- Control unit for liftgates
- Door control units
- Activators as window regulator motors
- Sliding door motors
Closure systems:
- System latches
- Side door closure systems
- Latch modules
- Liftgate latches
Systems for seats:
- Manual seat adjuster
- Power seat adjuster
- Headrest adjusters
- Lumbar adjusters
- Electronic memory systems for seat position
- Seat length adjuster with slide-integrated gear
- Laser technology for rails and backframes
- Modular system design for lumbar supports
- Rear seat structures
- Power rear benches
- Power seat-belt-carriers
- Easy Belt® with anti-trap technology for coupés and convertibles
- Recliners
- Lightweight seats
- Seatbelt retractor motors
- Seat motors
Electric drives and motors:
- Steering-column adjuster
- Cooling fan modules
- Display screen adjuster
- Drive units for window regulators
- ABS motors
- HVAC blowers
- Parking brake motors
- Systems for controlling the supply of cooling air
- Sunroof motors
- Drive train actuators
- Electric power steering motors
Main Markets: Europe, North America, South America, Asia, forcing particularly Asia and Eastern Europe.
Every third car produced worldwide is equipped with at least one Brose product.
The company has been working in the area of window regulators for more than 80 years and has established itself as the leading supplier worldwide.
Brose holds the leading position in door systems worldwide with a market share of 39%. In-house window regulator motors and electronics round off the portfolio.
As the market leader for latch modules and a global manufacturer of closure systems, Brose complements its competence in door systems.
With power seat adjusters, the company is the European market leader. During the next few years, it intends to tap even further into the US and Asian markets. In the medium term, the company's aim is to gain a leading world market position in this product segment as well.
Brose is the world leader in motors for electronic braking systems (EBS), drive train actuators and cooling fan modules. We also number among the leading suppliers of HVAC blowers and electric steering systems.
E-Mobility
Early in 2011, Brose established a joint venture with SEW EURODRIVE GmbH & Co. KG, one of the leading suppliers for drive technology and automation. The goal of this joint venture is to develop and produce drives and charging technology for electric and hybrid vehicles.
This involves both companies pooling their technical expertise and experience from electric motor design, electronics and charging systems. This creates a unique combination of existing research and development know-how and manufacturing equipment available for electrical drive systems in the performance categories ranging from 0.25 to 150 kW.
In addition to the development and production of vehicle drives and their control electronics, Brose is are also exploring inductive charging technology to enable energy supply without a charging cable: convenient and innovative.
The newly-founded Brose-SEW joint venture is considerably more flexible than major competitors and can provide tailor-made solutions for our customers, ranging from individual components to the entire drive system including charging technology.
Since the joint venture can tap the know-how of the two parent companies Brose and SEW-EURODRIVE and access their production facilities, it can achieve additional economies of scale and cost benefits. One example is Brose-SEW's current new motor technology that operates without rare earth magnet materials and thus provides significant cost benefits.
Group Companies:
Europe
Headquarter: Coburg, (Germany); Engineering and sales as well as production sites
America
Headquarter: Auburn Hills/Detroit (US); Engineering and sales as well as production companies
Asia
Headquarter: Shanghai (CN); Engineering and sales as well as production companies. Several ventures and affiliated companies worldwide.
Major Shareholders: Michael Stoschek, Christine Volkmann
New Strategies/Products:The company aims to press further ahead with the development of new products designed to enhance the comfort and safety of car driving. Brose invests 10% of the business volume in the development of new products and processes, state-of-the art information technology as well as personnel development.
An integral part of the corporate strategy is to protect the environment by assessing its products on the basis of a life cycle inventory (e.g. by using intelligent lightweight design solutions).
Consequently following the idea of sustainability, efficiency in the process systems is a pivotal objective of the company.
Corporate Philosophy: Brose is partner to the international automobile industry and delivers mechatronic systems and electric drives to automakers as well as suppliers.
The company exploits its expertise in mechanics, electrics and electronics gained over decades to find the right solutions tailor-made for the needs of its customers.
The focus is on new products designed to cut fuel consumption, thus helping to reduce CO2 emissions. At the same time, Brose contributes with its components and systems toward making automobiles safer and more comfortable to use.
The goal of Brose is to extend its development and quality leadership even further. Moreover, Brose intends to step up its worldwide activities, particularly in Asia.
With innovative capability, leading edge manufacturing technology and logistics, above all, with its strategic investments and stable ownership structure, Brose seeks to have a long-term partnership with the automakers.
Special Remarks: Among the top 100 automotive suppliers worldwide and the fifth-largest family-owned company
Founded: 1908
Turnover: € 3.9 bn, Brose Group (Forecast) (2011)
Number of Employees: 19,000 Brose Group (Forecast) (2011)
A: Leitzstr. 2, D-73447 Oberkochen. Tel.: (+49-7364) 950-0. Fax: (+49-7364) 950-662. URL: http://www.leitz.org. E-Mail: leitz@leitz.org
Management: Dr. Dieter Brucklacher, (Chairman); Wilfried Gehart, Juergen Boll, Michael Voss
Supervisory Board: Dieter Maier (Chairman of the advisory committee), Dr. Cornelia Brucklacher (Representative Chairman of the advisory committee) Dr. Dieter Japs (Member of the advisory committee)
Field of Business: Production, services and sale of machine-driven precision tools and process designed tool systems for the professional processing of solid wood, wood derived and plastic materials
Group Companies: The Leitz Corporate Group is divided into Leitz GmbH & Co. KG, Boehlerit GmbH & Co. KG and Bilz GmbH & Co. KG with worldwide numerous production plants and subsidiaries.
Corporate Philosophy: Leitz - we shape the future
Highlights (Last-Next Year): Exports to over 100 countries worldwide
Founded: 1876 by Albert Leitz
Turnover: € 380 m (2010)
Number of Employees: 4,800 (Leitz Corporate Group) (2010)
See also: Leitz Company profile
A: Westendstr. 199, D-80686 München. Tel.: (+49-89) 57 91 0. Fax: (+49-89) 5791 1551. URL: http://www.tuev-sued.de or www.tuev-sued.com
Management: Dr.-Ing. Axel Stepken (CEO); Dr. Peter Klein (CFO); Dirk Eilers; Horst Schneider; Karsten Xander
Supervisory Board: Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Bullinger (Chairman)
Field of Business: TÜV SÜD is a leading international service organization catering to the strategic business segments INDUSTRY, MOBILITY and CERTIFICATION. Over 16,000 employees are represented at more than 600 locations throughout the world. Optimizing technology, systems and know-how, the interdisciplinary specialist teams act as process partners to strengthen their customers' competitiveness.
Divisions and Products: Three strategic business segments: INDUSTRY, MOBILITY and CERTIFICATION.
Main Markets: Germany, Europe, USA, Asia Pacific
Corporate Philosophy: Choose certainty. Add value.
Founded: 1866 in Mannheim; TÜV Süddeutschland resulted from the merger in 1997 of TÜV Bayern Hessen Sachsen and TÜV Südwest and was renamed TÜV SÜD as of 2006
Turnover: € 1,552 m (2011)
Number of Employees: 16,000 (2011)
Losberger GmbH
A: Gottlieb-Daimler-Ring 14, D-74906 Bad Rappenau. Tel.: (+49-7066) 980-0. Fax: (+49-7066) 980232. URL: http://www.losberger.com. E-Mail: losberger@losberger.com
Management: Friedrich Losberger (Managing Partner)
Field of Business: Losberger group ranks among the international leading manufacturers, sellers and renters of mobile light-weight-construction halls and tents for various events.
Divisions and Products: Tents for events, exhibitions; environmental light-weight construction halls, halls for storage and product presentation.
Main Markets: Worldwide
Group Companies: Walter SAS, France; TMB, France; Losberger Raumkonzept GmbH, Losberger AiS GmbH, Germany; Bachmann SA, France
Parent Company: Losberger Intertent GmbH
New Strategies/Products: Important innovations were created by Losberger. As for example the aluminium box-beam-frame construction for halls and tents which are today international standard. Or the modular tent construction system permitting to adapt new tent elements to already existing equipment.
Highlights (Last-Next Year): Development of additional modules for the "multiflex", "uniflex" and "maxiflex" tent systems; Development of a new module of roof-design "arcum" for both the small and big tent series of Losberger.
Special Remarks: renamed from Losberger Intertent GmbH in 2009
Founded: 1919 by Friedrich Losberger sen.
Turnover: € 35 mill., Group 98 mill. (2009)
Number of Employees: 230 , Group 540 (2009)