Careal Holding

Careal Holding AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	1941
Seat	Zurich , Switzerland
management	Martin Haefner ( CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors )
Number of employees	7278 (2006)
sales	4.723 billion CHF (2006)
Branch	Holding company

The careal holding AG is a Swiss family holding company, whose portfolio the investments held by the family Haefner are organized. The company was founded in 1941 as Autark AG by Walter Haefner and is based in Zurich. The owner family is considered to be extremely secretive and does not publish any business figures through their holding company. According to the Handelszeitung, the company employed 7,278 people in 2006 and generated sales of CHF 4.723 billion.

The most important subsidiary of Careal Holding is AMAG Automobil- und Motoren AG in Zurich, also founded in 1945 by Walter Haefner and active in the automotive trade . The AMAG Group's automotive business also includes AMAG Leasing AG ( leasing business ), Roc AG ( second-hand trade ) and AMAG Services AG ( car rental and parking garages ).

Careal Holding also holds a 26.98 percent stake in the US software group CA, Inc. , making the Haefner family its largest shareholder.

In the summer of 2006, company founder Walter Haefner handed over the management of the family holding to his son Martin Haefner at the age of 95.

Web links

• Markus Bürgi: Walter Haefner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Company profile in the Handelszeitung ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ CA, Inc., SEC Filing Form DEF 14A, major shareholders as of June 28, 2007  ( 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.