Grimme group

Grimme group
legal form	GmbH & Co. KG
founding	1861
Seat	Damme , Germany
management	Franz Grimme, Christoph Grimme, Sebastian Talg, Richard Weiß
Number of employees	2,700
sales	EUR 453 million
Branch	Agricultural engineering
Website	www.grimme.com
	Status: 2018

The Grimme Group (and its subsidiary , Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG) is a German company founded in Damme in 1861 that primarily produces agricultural machinery in the field of potato, beet and vegetable technology. The Lower Saxony company is one of the world market leaders in the field of potato technology.

history

Grimme potato harvester LK 650 (1988)

Grimme potato harvester Varitron 470 (2012)

The family business developed out of a forging company founded in 1861 by Franz Carl Heinrich Grimme . Both his son Franz August and his son Franz learned the same craft. The family dynasty focused on automating the potato harvest and has been making potato harvesters since 1936 . In 1939 Grimme delivered 1,600 machines. The first post-war product in 1956 was the single-row potato harvester “Universal”. In the mid-1960s, the number of employees had risen to around 150. In 1966, the production of the "Europe Standard" full harvester started. In 1969, Grimme said it had the first single-row self-propelled potato harvesters in its range and five years later expanded its product range to include two-row models that were hydrostatically driven. The increasingly low potato prices in Germany led to a significant drop in sales and ultimately to the discontinuation of parts of the production. At the beginning of the 1970s, the Grimme Group was converted into a GmbH & Co. KG . In 1980 the management of the company passed to the son of Franz Grimme Sen., Franz Grimme, a mechanical engineer and business economist.

In addition to potato technology, the company also offers beet and vegetable technology and has customers in over 120 countries. There are service and sales companies in England , Ireland , the USA , Russia , France , the Netherlands , Denmark , Poland , China and Turkey .

Web links

Commons : Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the Grimme agricultural machinery factory

Individual evidence

↑ [1] , accessed on August 13, 2020
↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c guideline efficiency. In: Milestones in agricultural engineering. Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag Hanover, October 15, 2011, accessed on October 24, 2013 .
^ Hermann von Laer: The Oldenburger Münsterland - a modern industrial region. (PDF; 322 kB) In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 2002, p. 306.
↑ http://www.grimme.com/de/page/grimmegroup
^ Jan C. Aurich, Michael H. Clement: Product Service Systems: Design and Realization . Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-01407-9 , p. 45 .

[1] [1] , accessed on August 13, 2020

[2] Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .

[Leitlinie-3] guideline efficiency. In: Milestones in agricultural engineering. Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag Hanover, October 15, 2011, accessed on October 24, 2013 .

[4] Hermann von Laer: The Oldenburger Münsterland - a modern industrial region. (PDF; 322 kB) In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 2002, p. 306.

[5] ttp://www.grimme.com/de/page/grimmegroup

[6] Jan C. Aurich, Michael H. Clement: Product Service Systems: Design and Realization . Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-01407-9 , p. 45 .