Dorma

DORMA Germany GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1908
Seat	Ennepetal , Germany
Number of employees	7410 (2014/15)
sales	1.11 billion euros (2014/15)
Branch	Locking technology
Website	www.dorma.com/de/de/

Dorma company headquarters in Ennepetal

DORMA was founded on July 1st, 1908 as Dörken + Mankel KG in Ennepetal . The internationally operating Dorma Group was represented by 71 of its own companies in 49 countries.

On September 1, 2015, Dorma merged with the Swiss company Kaba to form dormakaba Holding AG . The holding is held 52.5 percent by Kaba Holding and 47.5 percent by the Dorma owner families Mankel and Brecht-Bergen.

Organization and business areas

Before the merger with Kaba , all global production sites and branches were under the management of the Ennepetal-based holding company . Dorma's business fields included door technology, automatic, glass fitting technology, security technology / time and access control and room partition systems. Production locations were Europe, Singapore, Malaysia, China and North and South America.

Product range

Older Dorma door closer

Door technology: door closers , door fittings ( door handles , door handles ), window fittings (window handles), door hinges, locks

Automatic: automatically operated glass doors (sliding doors, revolving doors, sliding wall systems, space-saving doors, telescopic sliding doors), automatic sliding door and swing door drives

Glass fittings technology: all-glass constructions, fittings, door rails , locks

Security technology: Security locks, burglar protection systems, escape route control centers, control, display and alarm systems, door locks, fire protection systems ( smoke alarms ), time recording and access control systems

Room partition systems : sound-absorbing partition walls, glass partition walls

History of the company

1908: Foundation of Dörken + Mankel KG by Rudolf Mankel and his brother-in-law Wilhelm Dörken in Ennepetal
1927: Entry of the brand name Dorma
1950: Entry into the production of door closers (TS 50)
1962: Entry into the production of drives
1970: Karl-Rudolf Mankel took over the company - Dörken + Mankel KG became Dorma GmbH + Co. KG
1976: Entry into the area of glass door fittings - one year later the subsidiary Dorma-Glas is founded
1977: Foundation of the first foreign sales company - Dorma France
1978: First foreign production facility opened in Singapore.
2008: 100th company anniversary under the motto One Vision - One Passion - One Family
2010: New corporate strategy "DORMA 2020" is a growth target of EUR 2 billion by 2020
2015: Merger with the Kaba Group to form dormakaba Holding AG

Key figures of the Dorma Group
	2000/01	2001/02	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15
sales	EUR 573.0 million	EUR 613.0 million	EUR 663.0 million	EUR 649.0 million	EUR 700.0 million	EUR 767.0 million	EUR 838.0 million	EUR 894.0 million	EUR 882.2 million	EUR 856.4 million	EUR 944.4 million	EUR 1,001.8 million	EUR 1,005.8 million	EUR 1,010.3 million	EUR 1,109.2 million
Employees annual average	4,767	5.113	5,590	5,510	5,817	6,200	6,500	7,000	6,780	6,470	6,546	6,738	6,769	7.115	7,410

Awards

2005–2011: Top job
2006: Innovative Top 100
2010: Architects Partner Award in gold for the best architectural consultant in the category locking systems, locks, etc. Fittings.
2013: Hidden Champion 2013

Web links

Commons : Dorma - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b DORMA Group facts and figures
↑ Hermann Simon mentions Dorma in his book of the same name as an example of a " hidden champion ", since it is the world market leader in the areas of door locking technology, room partition systems, automatic door systems and glass fitting systems. In: Simon, Hermann: Hidden Champions of the 21st Century. The success strategies of unknown world market leaders. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38380-4 , p. 21.
^ Foundation of the first foreign sales company - Dorma France
↑ First foreign production facility opened in Singapore

[zf-1] DORMA Group facts and figures

[2] Hermann Simon mentions Dorma in his book of the same name as an example of a " hidden champion ", since it is the world market leader in the areas of door locking technology, room partition systems, automatic door systems and glass fitting systems. In: Simon, Hermann: Hidden Champions of the 21st Century. The success strategies of unknown world market leaders. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38380-4 , p. 21.

[3] Foundation of the first foreign sales company - Dorma France

[4] First foreign production facility opened in Singapore