Hama (company)

Hama GmbH & Co KG
legal form	GmbH & Co. KG
founding	1923 in Dresden
Seat	Monheim , Germany
management	Christoph Thomas
Number of employees	2500 (2019)
sales	531 million euros (2017)
Branch	Consumer electronics, accessories
Website	www.hama.de

Company headquarters in Monheim

The Hama GmbH & Co KG has approximately 18,000 products, one of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors of accessories in the product areas of photo, video, audio, computer, and telecommunications. The company employs around 2,400 people at 18 locations worldwide, 1,500 of them at the headquarters in Monheim, Swabia . In addition to the Hama brand, the own brands Avinity, Coocazoo, Step by Step All out and Xavax are sold.

history

The company was founded in Dresden in 1923 by the then 18-year-old photographer Martin Hanke as "Hamaphot KG, photo wholesaling and manufacturing of laboratory equipment and recording accessories".

After the destruction in the Second World War, the company was rebuilt in Monheim, Bavaria . One of the first articles was the synchronized powder flash device presented in 1948 . When the founder Martin Hanke died in 1959, his son Rudolph Hanke and his brother-in-law Adolf Thomas took over the management. Since 1987 his son Christoph Thomas has been managing partner alongside Rudolph Hanke.

Other products were the world's first automatic film gluing press from 1972, the “Hamafix” slide-framing system, which came onto the market in 1975, and the “Videocut 200” video editing device, which appeared in 1991 and later became the best-selling .

With effect from September 30, 2015, the Thomas and Hanke families have their entire limited partner shares in the holding, the “Hama Hamaphot Hanke & Thomas GmbH & Co KG”, the “Adolf and Christoph Thomas Foundation” and the “Martin and Rudolph Hanke Foundation "brought in. The foundations are now the sole limited partners in the holding company.

In 2019, Hama employed around 2500 people worldwide, 1500 of them at the headquarters in Monheim, Bavaria. The logistics and shipping center that went into operation there in 1997 and last expanded in 2014, as well as 17 other locations abroad and numerous commercial agencies ensure global sales. Hama employs over 100 trainees and students .

Historical products
Powder flash device
Film gluing press
Hamafix
Videocut 200

Hama products

In addition to accessories in the areas of photo and video, consumer electronics, computers, gaming, home appliances, schools and leisure, Hama also offers radio devices.