Compo
| COMPO GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1956 |
| Seat | Muenster |
| management | Fan Zhang Stephan Engster |
| Number of employees | 1075 (2010) |
| sales | EUR 402 million (2010) |
| Branch | Garden products |
| Website | www.compo.com |
The Compo GmbH (proper spelling COMPO), based in Münster is a manufacturer of biological and chemical products for house and garden as well as specialty fertilizers for professional users.
Company profile
The company's business is divided into the Consumer and Expert divisions . The consumer business includes a range of branded items ( potting soil , fertilizers, pesticides , etc.). In the Expert segment, special fertilizers for commercial applications are marketed. The company's products are sold through seventeen international offices in more than 100 countries.
In 2010 the company generated sales of 402 million euros with 1075 employees.
history
The company was founded in 1956 in Münster under the name Holländisch-Deutsche Düngemittel-Gesellschaft Todenhagen & Sprenger KG by consul EH Sprenger and was the first manufacturer to offer ready-made potting soil under the brand name Compo Sana. In 1959 the company moved to today's factory premises in Münster-Handorf and has been using the Compo-Primel as a trademark since 1964. Since the 1960s, advertising campaigns in the print and TV sectors have been known throughout Germany.
In 1967 the then Salzdetfurth AG (predecessor of today's K + S ) took over 50% of the company shares; This is how the cooperation with the "Salzdetfurth sales office GmbH" began with the establishment of the "Salzdetfurth COMPO-Werk GmbH & Co. KG" in Handorf, in which Salzdetfurth and EH Sprenger were equally involved. In 1971, Wintershall acquired the 50 percent stake in "Salzdetfurth COMPO-Werk GmbH & Co. KG" from company founder EH Sprenger. In the same year, Salzdetfurth concentrated its own specialty fertilizer division at Compo; Among other things, this led to Compo also selling the special and liquid fertilizers from Chemische Fabrik Kalk in Cologne (CFK) from 1971 and thus entering the professional market.
When Salzdetfurth was renamed in 1972, the 50 percent Salzdetfurth stake in Compo went to Kali und Salz. Kali, Salz and Wintershall each held 50% of Compo. In 1976, Wintershall ceded its 50% Compo shares to its main shareholder BASF , which then took over Compo completely in 1986 as part of its diversification strategy at the time.
In 1999, K + S bought back Compo for DM 420 million from BASF, which now concentrated on its core business in chemistry. As of July 1, 2009, K + S merged the business activities of its subsidiary Fertiva and parts of the Compo professional business in the company K + S Nitrogen. At the beginning of March 2011 Compo was sold to the private equity investor Triton for 205 million euros . In 2016 Compo was taken over by the Kingenta Ecological Engineering Group (China).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Focus on the core business. K + S sells COMPO to the holding company Triton. (No longer available online.) K + S AG, June 20, 2010, archived from the original on June 9, 2015 ; Retrieved April 21, 2012 . 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.
- ↑ history. Retrieved April 17, 2017 .
