Aton GmbH

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ATON GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 2001
Seat Munich , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Georg Denoke , Jörg Fahrenbach
Number of employees 18,678 (2018)
sales 2.46 billion euros (2018)
Branch Equity stake
Website www.aton.de
As of December 31, 2018

The Aton GmbH (proper spelling ATON GmbH) is a German holding company with headquarters in Munich . The founder is Lutz Helmig , the former main shareholder and founder of the Helios clinics .

background

In 2001 Helmig founded Aton in Fulda . With the name after the ancient Egyptian sun god Aton, Helmig linked to the name of the clinic group Helios, because Helios is the sun god of Greek mythology. The holding company manages the family assets. The shareholders of Aton GmbH are Lutz Helmig and his family as follows:

  • 60% Lutz Helmig
  • 10% Dagmar Helmig (wife of Lutz Helmig)
  • 15% Alexandra Helmig (daughter of the Helmig couple)
  • 15% Charlotte Helmig (daughter of the Helmig couple)

Spread across the individual companies within the Aton Group, more than 15,500 people were employed on December 31, 2017.

In 2007, the turnover of the majority shareholdings was around 1.6 billion euros; in 2011, the non-consolidated turnover was 2.3 billion euros; 2015 at 2.1 billion; 2017 at 2.15 billion

Holdings

The investments can be assigned to four business areas: engineering ( engineering ), mining ( mining ), med tech ( medical technology ) and aviation ( aviation ).

AT engineering

  • Edag Engineering Group AG, Arbon , Switzerland (70.66% shares)
  • Reform Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co KG, Fulda (100% shares)
Redpath tunnel and mine development, project in North America.

AT mining

Haema headquarters in Leipzig

AT Med Tech

DC Aviation Airbus in Hanover

AT Aviation

Minority holdings

  • Dürr AG - Stuttgart (15.55% shares) (supplier of products, systems and services for the automotive industry)
  • Deutsche Lufthansa AG - Cologne (2.66% shares)

Former holdings

Selected former holdings by Aton are:

  • Cirrus Airlines and affiliated companies (Cirrus Technik, Cirrus Flight Training and nana tours) (via Cirrus Group) (100% shares) - sold in December 2008 to Aviation Investment, owned by the former Cirrus shareholder and founder Gerd Brandecker
  • Schmidt-Seeger GmbH (held 97.3% interest as of December 2006) - August 20, 2010 to the Buhler AG sold
  • Lumera Laser GmbH (100% shares) - sold to Coherent Inc. on December 20, 2012
  • FFT Produktionssysteme GmbH & Co. KG, Fulda (100% shares) - sold to Fosun in May 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Annual Report 2018. (pdf) In: aton.de. Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
  2. Prospectus dated October 23, 2013. Retrieved January 26, 2017 .
  3. ATON sells its stake in HAEMA AG | ATON GmbH. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
  4. Schmidt-Seeger GmbH becomes part of the Bühler Group . Aton GmbH, August 20, 2010, accessed on September 8, 2016.
  5. Press release popup on the Coherent homepage ( Memento from January 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )