Apleona

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Apleona Group GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 2016
Seat Neu-Isenburg GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Jochen Keysberg (Chairman of the Management Board), Georg J. Fronja, Robin Petersen, Gert W. Riegel
Number of employees 20,886 (annual average 2017)
sales 2.0 billion euros (2017)
Branch Real estate industry
Website www.apleona.com
As of December 31, 2017

The Apleona Group GmbH is a German service provider in the real estate industry based in Neu-Isenburg . Apleona is one of the leading facility management companies in Germany.

The group emerged in 2016 from the former Building and Facility segment of the Mannheim-based industrial service provider Bilfinger SE , which was acquired by the Swedish investment group EQT . Apleona is active in four business areas with numerous operational subsidiaries : facility management , real estate advisory , interior design and building technology . Customers are large industrial companies, banks and insurance companies as well as fund companies and the public sector. In the 2017 financial year, almost 21,000 people were employed at around 210 locations in just over 30 countries and sales of 2 billion euros were achieved.

history

With effect from September 1, 2016, Bilfinger SE completed the sale of its real estate business at a price of 1.23 billion euros to the Swedish financial investor EQT and Apleona (founded with the articles of association dated February 16, 2016) commenced operations . On October 4, 2016, Jochen Keysberg presented the name Apleona at a launch event at the real estate trade fair Expo Real in Munich . Before he became CEO of the Apleona Group, Keysberg was responsible for real estate activities on the Executive Board of Bilfinger and made a move as part of the sale. The company name is a word creation from the word component pleon for 'more, rich, over' (from Greek pleo ) and the framing letter A , which should represent the real estate life cycle “from beginning to beginning” . The Latin word leo included should also stand for “the strength of the lion” and the necessary “bite in competition”.

structure

In addition to the Apleona Group GmbH as the parent company and the main group company Apleona GmbH , which directly holds the investments, the group also includes numerous domestic and foreign subsidiaries .

The Apleona Group is active in four business areas (as of July 2017):

facility management
Facility management is Apleona's core business. Apleona HSG Facility Management employs over 17,000 people .
Real Estate Advisory
Real estate advice and management services are provided by Apleona GVA in Europe, GVA in the UK and GVA Worldwide in the rest of the world. Around 2800 people are employed at 43 locations worldwide and 61 billion euros are managed ( assets under management ). This makes Apleona GVA one of the leading real estate service providers in Europe.
Interior work
Apleona is one of the leading full-service fit-out companies and construction service providers in Germany. The operative unit of the business field interior design is the Apleona R&M Aufbau GmbH with headquarters in Munich and 15 other locations in Germany and Luxembourg. Around 200 people are employed.
building technology
The Apleona Wolfferts building based in Cologne advises with 605 employees customers in the planning and execution of building .

In addition to its home base in Germany, the group has locations in: Egypt, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Canada, Kazakhstan, Croatia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Spain, Czech Republic, Turkey, Ukraine, Hungary and the United Arab Emirates.

Apleona is a portfolio company of the Swedish financial investor EQT .

Managing directors

The managing directors are Dr. Jochen Keysberg (Chairman of the Management Board ), Georg J. Fronja, Robin Petersen and Gert W. Riegel In addition to the managing directors, the Management Board includes four other members.,

Rankings and awards

The Lünendonk list 2017: Leading facility service companies in Germany led the company as the market leader in facility management in Germany in first place. In 2018, Apleona was close behind Spie Deutschland & Zentraleuropa GmbH in second place. In 2019, Apleona took place again 1 before game.

In the Bell Facility Management Report of the Cologne-based consulting firm Bell Management Consultants, which evaluates the services of the commissioned facility management providers on the basis of a survey of property managers , Apleona took first place among companies with more than 300 million euros in sales in 2018, after third place last year.

In January 2019 Apleona received the the Handelsblatt awarded Diamond Star Award in the category IT Innovation products and services to large enterprises for the Digital Ecosystem (digital ecosystem ') for optimized real estate and space management.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements for the 2017 financial year of Apleona Group GmbH. In: Bundesanzeiger , September 27, 2018, accessed on June 13, 2019.
  2. ↑ Katja Bühren, Marcus Jung, Harald Thomeczek: Bilfinger sells real estate division to EQT for EUR 1.2 billion . In: Immobilien Zeitung , June 2, 2016, accessed on July 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ Consolidated financial statements for the financial year from February 16, 2016 to December 31, 2016 . Apleona Group GmbH. In: Bundesanzeiger , February 16, 2018, accessed on May 6, 2018.
  4. ↑ Harald Thomeczek: Bilfinger: Keysberg is "also sold" . In: Immobilien Zeitung , September 7, 2016, accessed on July 4, 2017.
  5. ↑ The Bilfinger Building and Facility becomes Apleona . In: Der Facility Manager (online), October 5, 2016, accessed on July 4, 2017.
  6. ↑ Apleona GVA Real Estate Advisors . Website of Immobilien Manager Verlag, accessed on July 21, 2017 (partner of the Immobilienmanager Awards).
  7. ↑ Imprint . Apleona Group website, accessed January 30, 2020.
  8. ↑ Management Board . Apleona Group website, accessed January 30, 2020
  9. ↑ Lünendonk List 2017: Leading facility service companies in Germany . Lünendonk & Hossenfelder , accessed on July 4, 2017 (PDF).
  10. ^ Lünendonk: Ranking of Facility Service Companies 2018. In: Der Facility Manager , June 27, 2018, accessed on June 13, 2019.
  11. ↑ Fully busy looking for staff. In: Facility Management , June 4, 2019, accessed June 13, 2019.
  12. ↑ Lars Wiederhold: Apleona regains first place in the Lünendonk list. In: Immobilien Zeitung , May 28, 2019, accessed on June 14, 2019.
  13. ↑ Robert Altmannshofer: Bell FM Report 2018: Assessment of skills from the property manager's perspective. In: Der Facility Manager , Volume 25, Issue 12, December 2018, pp. 14–15.
  14. ↑ Horst Ellermann: Apleona-IT wins award. In: CIO , February 7, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019.