Focke & Co.
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1955 |
| Seat | Verden , Germany |
| management | Thomas Häfker, Cord Schröder, Irmin Steinkamp, Knut Stichling, Peter Wedig, |
| Number of employees | 1596 (December 2017, corporate group) |
| sales | EUR 409 million (2017, Group) |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.focke.com |
The Maschinenfabrik Focke & Co. is a German packaging machinery manufacturers.
The core business is the manufacture of packaging machines primarily for the tobacco industry , but also for other industries such as Kellogg’s or Pampers . Focke leads the way in cigarette packaging with GD as a competitor.
The family company was founded in 1955 by Heinz Focke in Bremen . After expansion in Bremen was no longer possible in the 1950s , the company moved to Verden in 1961 , where the headquarters are still located today. Even after the company's founder passed away in 2003, his descendants, siblings Jürgen and Doris Focke, continued to run the company as a family business.
The company has manufacturing locations in Berlin- Reinickendorf , Hamburg , Barßel (the company Focke Packaging Solutions GmbH , formerly FOPAC ) and Greensboro in North Carolina as well as service branches in St.Petersburg (Russia), Turkey, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Japan, Singapore and Brazil.
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- ↑ a b Consolidated annual financial statements for the 2017 financial year in the Federal Gazette
Coordinates: 52 ° 54 ′ 38.6 " N , 9 ° 14 ′ 55.8" E