United felt factories
United Filzfabriken Aktiengesellschaft
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legal form | Corporation |
ISIN | DE0007617003 |
founding | 1858 |
Seat |
Giengen an der Brenz , Germany |
management | Karl-Ulrich Hömann, board member |
Number of employees | 163 |
sales | 27.22 million euros |
Branch | Textile industry |
Website | www.vfg.de |
As of December 31, 2018 |
The United Filzfabriken AG (VFG) in Giengen an der Brenz is a listed company for the manufacture of felt , it is part of the FFF Group .
background
VFG's predecessor was the Württemberg wool felt manufacture founded in 1858 by the 20-year-old Hans Haehnle . In 1871 he married his cousin Lina Hähnle , who founded the Federation for Bird Protection (BfV) , the predecessor of the Nature Conservation Union in Germany . Under their influence, he built company apartments and set up a voluntary company health insurance fund and a crèche for his employees.
After buying up three other felt factories in Augsburg , Lambrecht (Pfalz) and Neidenfels , the company was converted into a stock corporation under the company Vereinigte Filzfabriken AG in 1881 . Margarete Steiff (a relative of the Hähnles) and later also Joseph Beuys were among the customers .
In 1922, the six production sites in Gerschweiler south of Giengen were merged. Filzfabrik Fulda and Wirth Fulda GmbH (Wirth Group) have held the majority of the shares since 1968 . In 1969 the company went public; the shares were officially listed in Munich and Stuttgart and are now traded there on the regulated market . A control and profit transfer agreement exists with Wirth Fulda GmbH, which directly and indirectly holds almost 97% of the shares ; the small shareholders receive a compensation payment of 18.61 euros per year.
Today, VFG supplies companies from more than 80 branches at home and abroad.
Web links
- United Filzfabriken AG website
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the United Filzfabriken in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Vereinigte Filzfabriken Annual Report 2018 , accessed on June 1, 2019
- ^ Ulrich Stark: Portrait of Margarete Steiff
- ↑ Mother bird with courage: Portrait of the NABU founder Lina Hähnle , NABU website
- ↑ The idea of Richard Steiff (Steiff book; PDF; 4.8 MB)
- ↑ Julia Voss: The stuff of silence. Where Beuys found the felt. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 28, 2009.
- ^ Hoppenstedt Aktienführer 1998. Verlag Hoppenstedt, ISBN 3-8203-0409-6 .
- ↑ Official price sheet of the Munich Stock Exchange ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 19, 2014, accessed June 20, 2014. RM = Regulated Market.
- ↑ Factsheet of the Stuttgart Stock Exchange , accessed on August 31, 2016
- ↑ Annual financial statements 2015 of Vereinigte Filzfabriken AG, published in the Federal Gazette
Coordinates: 48 ° 36 ′ 45 ″ N , 10 ° 15 ′ 1 ″ E