Alliance Healthcare Germany

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Alliance Healthcare Deutschland AG

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legal form Corporation
founding August 16, 1923
Seat Frankfurt am Main GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Aline Seifert (CEO)
Number of employees 2,700 (2731)
sales EUR 4,567 million (2011/12)
Branch Health care providers, pharmaceutical wholesalers, logistics
Website www.alliance-healthcare.de

Alliance Healthcare Deutschland AG (formerly Andreae-Noris Zahn AG , also abbreviated to ANZAG ), based in Frankfurt am Main, is a pharmaceutical wholesaler based in Frankfurt and is now part of the US Walgreens Boots Alliance . the company has a dense distribution network with over 20 branches; In addition, it is active in the areas of healthcare logistics and information services through subsidiaries and holdings. Andreae-Noris Zahn's listing on the stock exchange was discontinued with a squeeze-out in January 2013 and the company was renamed Alliance Healthcare Germany in April 2013.

history

On August 27, 1841, Johann Matthias Andreae (* June 10, 1816; † April 17, 1892) opened a material and dye store in the Haus zum Esslinger on the chicken market in Frankfurt am Main . The house in the old town previously belonged to the aunt Melber of the young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . Andreae bought it for 27,000 guilders to start trading in pharmaceutical preparations and paints.

In 1878 the two sons of the company founder, Ferdinand Philipp and Philipp Herrmann , joined the company as partners. Philipp Hermann Andreae, who ran the business alone after his brother left in 1904, had numerous branches and a new office building built in Hohenstaufenstrasse 13-25 near Frankfurt Central Station within a few years , which served as the headquarters of ANZAG until 1990. Philipp Hermann Andreae died on September 8, 1911 at the age of 57, and his son and last male heir Walter Oskar Wilhelm Andreae died in 1916 . Two managing directors from outside the family took over the management. JM Andreae Aktiengesellschaft was founded in Frankfurt am Main on July 1, 1922 .

Share for RM 100 in Andreae-Noris Zahn AG from June 19, 1928

On August 16, 1923, it merged with Noris Zahn & Cie GmbH , based in Nuremberg, to form Andreae-Noris Zahn AG, based in Frankfurt. While the Nuremberg partner brought in branches in Chemnitz , Dresden , Erfurt , Magdeburg , Mannheim and Munich , the Frankfurt partner already had branches in Saarbrücken , Mannheim, Wiesbaden and Stuttgart .

In the following years the company grew through the incorporation of the companies Mettenheimer & Simon in Frankfurt, Gebr. Keller Nachf. AG in Freiburg im Breisgau , Schneider and Gottfried in Kassel , Joh. Conr. Schaefer jun. in Elberfeld and Clericus, Ziehl & Co. in Nuremberg.

With the establishment of the ANZAG Verbandstoff-Fabrik (Verfa GmbH) in Frankfurt in 1929, ANZAG began to manufacture dressing materials and nursing articles itself. In 1930 a Nuremberg wine shop for medical wines was affiliated, converted into the independent Norizia GmbH in 1939 and run as a subsidiary. In 1935 the subsidiaries EM ES CO and Mainland were established . In 1936 all subsidiaries were converted into controlled companies and reorganized into branch offices.

From 1939 to 1942, ANZAG expanded its network of branches in the countries that were affiliated and occupied during the Second World War . ANZAG had branches in Prague , Mährisch-Ostrau , Karlsbad , Strasbourg , Metz , The Hague , Oslo , Bucharest , Brussels , Kiev and Odessa . During this time, forced laborers were used as cheap labor at ANZAG's Nuremberg location . In 1945 the largest part (approx. 80%) of the company was in ruins. All foreign and the branches in East Germany were lost. Most of the destroyed branches were rebuilt in new locations. At the end of the 1950s, the reconstruction was completed and it was expanded again. Well-known companies were taken over in Berlin , Frankfurt and Augsburg . Branches in Gießen , Goslar , Tübingen , Bayreuth , Würzburg , Kempten (Allgäu) and Singen (Hohentwiel) were added.

In 1966 there were 38 branches and three subsidiaries. Branches were soon established in Braunschweig , Bremen , Hanover , Hildesheim and Itzehoe . In the 1970s, additional branches were incorporated through acquisitions: Bochum , Krefeld , Osnabrück , Aachen , Heidelberg , Essen , Cologne , Konstanz , Leer (East Frisia) , Siegen and Solingen . From 1982 onwards it had to be renovated and tightened. Smaller branches were closed or merged. 24 branches , less than half, and the new headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, built in 1990, remained.

An intended merger between Sanacorp Pharmahandel and ANZAG failed due to resistance from the cartel office. A legal dispute led by Sanacorp Pharmahandel from 2001 through all instances came to an end with the final rejection of the takeover after the case was referred back by the Federal Court of Justice to the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court in October 2006. It was one of the longest merger control proceedings in the history of Germany.

In October 2010 Alliance Boots became majority owner of ANZAG through the purchase of blocks of shares in Sanacorp , Celesio and Phoenix totaling 51.65%. Alliance Boots now held a stake of 81.64%, previously it was almost 30%. Since June 2012 she owned more than 95% of the ANZAG shares. On December 18, 2012, a general meeting of ANZAG resolved the squeeze-out procedure for the remaining shareholders. On April 1, 2013, ANZAG was renamed Alliance Healthcare Germany. With the merger of Alliance Boots with the American pharmacy operator Walgreens in 2015, the company has since been a subsidiary of the US Walgreens Boots Alliance.

In April 2019, Aline Seifert took over as CEO of the company, replacing Wolfgang Mähr, who is returning to the Supervisory Board as chairman.

Antitrust proceedings

In 2006 the Federal Cartel Office imposed fines of 2.6 million euros on the company, as well as three other competitors and seven managers, because of the formation of a quota cartel . According to its own admission, the Cartel Office had "no doubt about the deliberate agreement of the accused pharmaceutical wholesalers". Together with three other wholesalers, ANZAG had initiated a regional division of its sales market.

Branches

The company has branches in Bayreuth , Berlin , Bochum , Bremen , Dresden , Frankfurt am Main , Freiburg im Breisgau , Harsum , Itzehoe , Kassel , Cologne , Leipzig , Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Meerane , Munich , Nuremberg , Osnabrück , Regensburg , Rostock , Saarbrücken , Singen (Hohentwiel) , Stuttgart , Wolfertschwenden ( Allgäu ) and Würzburg .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rijo-research.de: Nuremberg employment companies of forced laborers 1939-1945
  2. ↑ Reuters Germany: British rival swallows Frankfurt pharmaceutical wholesaler Anzag , October 18, 2010.
  3. ↑ Board of Directors | alliance-healthcare.de. Retrieved June 18, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Spiegel-Online: Market agreements: Cartel office buzzes pharmaceutical dealers million dollar fine ; September 1, 2006.
  5. ↑ alliance-healthcare.de: Locations , accessed on June 4, 2017.

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