Glock GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1963 |
| Seat | Deutsch-Wagram , Austria |
| management | Gaston Glock |
| Number of employees | 1325 (2015) |
| sales | EUR 502 million (2015) |
| Branch | Guns, ammunition and knives |
| Website | www.glock.com |
The Glock GmbH is in Austria Canada based arms manufacturing company, known for its surveyor and pistols . The company was founded in 1963 in Deutsch-Wagram by Gaston Glock and is still based there today, as well as a production facility. Another production facility is located in Ferlach . The turnover in 2013 was 385 million euros; In 2012, around 240 people were employed in Deutsch-Wagram.
Products
Glock's first firearm was the Glock 17 , which was developed in the early 1980s under the name P80 for the Austrian Armed Forces . Today there are a good 21 different Glock pistols, the design of which is always the same, but differ in caliber ( 9 mm to .45 ACP ) and other details (length 160–225 mm, magazine for 6–33 rounds).
The weapons were among the first to be developed with a plastic handle with only a few steel inserts. This fact initially earned the weapon the name "plastic pistol". These are self-loading pistols with a "Safe Action" trigger system, which compensates for the lack of an external safety device with three integrated safety devices. They are considered to be particularly reliable and easy to use.
In addition to the range of firearms, tactical light modules, holsters and knives from the Glock brand are available.
In addition, Glock produces the following items for various armies:
distribution
The Glock pistols are the standard handguns in the Norwegian Army and the Austrian Armed Forces , the London Police, the Austrian Federal Police , various special units of the German Federal Police such as B. the GSG 9 and around two thirds of the US police force. Glock pistols are also used to equip the new Iraqi security agencies.
Ownership structure
As of November 16, 2015
| Shareholders | proportion of |
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| Glock private foundation | 99% |
| Helga Glock | 1 % |
On November 30, 2011, Helga Glock was expelled from the company by a shareholders' resolution at the General Meeting. Since then she has been fighting the decision in court.
Holdings
As of November 16, 2015
| company | Participation | country |
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| Glock (HK) Ltd. | 100% | People's Republic of China |
| Glock America (Uruguay) SA | 100% | Uruguay |
| Glock America SA | 100% | Uruguay |
| Glock Asia Pacific Ltd. | 100% | People's Republic of China |
| Glock De Venezuela, CA | 100% | Venezuela |
| Glock Do Brasil SA | 100% | Brazil |
| Glock Middle East (FZE) | 100% | United Arab Emirates |
| Glock Professional, Inc. | 100% | United States |
| Glock, Inc. | 50% | United States |
literature
- Paul M. Barrett: Glock. The Rise of America's Gun . Crown Publishing Group , New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-307-71995-9 (English).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c economic data, on trendtop500.at. Retrieved November 16, 2015
- ^ Gaston Glock: Carinthian weapons and their network. Wirtschaftsblatt , January 20, 2001, archived from the original on August 31, 2010 ; Retrieved September 20, 2011 .
- ↑ Steffen Fründt: The mysterious Glock factory in Deutsch-Wagram. welt.de from March 12, 2012 , accessed on March 12, 2012
- ↑ Glock product range
- ↑ The press
- ↑ welt.de: History of the company
- ↑ Ownership structure , on trendtop500.at
- ↑ Duel for company shares . In: The Standard . December 7, 2017, p. 23 .
- ↑ VfGH-22.000 / 0031-1 / 2017. (PDF; 236 kB) Constitutional Court , December 6, 2017, accessed on December 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Participations , on trendtop500.at
Coordinates: 46 ° 31 '26 " N , 14 ° 17' 52" E