Eschenbach optics
| Eschenbach Optik GmbH
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1913 |
| Seat |
Nuremberg , Germany
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| management | Jörg Zobel (Chairman), Holger Maas, Matthias Anke |
| Number of employees | 298 (annual average 2014) |
| sales | 70.8 million euros (2014) |
| Branch | Optics (including visual aids ) |
| Website | eschenbach-optik.com |
Eschenbach Optik GmbH is a German manufacturer and distributor of optical products based in Nuremberg . According to the majority shareholder Equistone Partners Europe, the company is one of the market leaders in Germany as a manufacturer of spectacle frames and long-range optical products and is known as a world leader in the development and production of optical aids .
History and products
On November 15, 1913, Josef Eschenbach founded the company named after him. His goal was to set up a wholesale business for optical products and drawing tools . At first visual aids and magnifying glasses were mainly sold. The increasing automization and mobility of people brought new target groups and products such as map cutters , compasses and telescopes . Sunglasses, especially for women, became an important market segment for Eschenbach.
Eschenbach was one of the first companies to start importing binoculars from the Far East around 1950 . In 1988 Eschenbach introduced highly flexible spectacle frames based on a titanium shape memory alloy under the TITANFLEX brand . In the course of time, the company brought out various eyewear brand collections, including TITANFLEX, HUMPHREY'S eyewear, Jos. Eschenbach, FREIGEIST, BRENDEL eyewear, TITANFLEX Kids and fineline. Eschenbach also sells the license brands MARC O'POLO Eyewear and MINI EYEWEAR.
After the company had been run as a family business for a long time by Josef Eschenbach and later by his son Rudolf Eschenbach and grandsons Gerd and Walter Eschenbach , the grandchildren withdrew from the management in 1999 and sold company shares in a combined management buy-out / management- Buy-in to Hannover Finanz . This transformed the company into a management-led company.
In another management buy-out in 2007, Hannover Finanz and the Gerd Eschenbach family sold their shares to Barclays Private Equity , which has been operating as Equistone Partners Europe since the end of 2011 . The Walter Eschenbach family still holds shares in the company. The shares are distributed as follows: Equistone Partners Europe 70%, Management u. a. 30%.
In the period that followed, the Eschenbach Group continued to grow through the takeovers of International Eyewear (2008) and Tura (2009).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 2014 annual financial statements of Eschenbach Optik GmbH. In: Bundesanzeiger , September 11, 2015.
- ↑ a b c Eschenbach optics . Equistone Partners Europe, July 2012, accessed December 26, 2012 .
- ^ Trademark register TITAN flex on register.dpma.de
- ↑ Hannover Finanz, case study Eschenbach on hannoverfinanz.de
- ↑ Company history ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2007 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. on eschenbach-optik.com
