Herbert Kannegiesser (Company)
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | April 3, 1948 |
| Seat | Vlotho , Germany |
| management | Martin Kannegiesser |
| Number of employees | approx. 1750 (2018) 834 in Vlotho |
| sales | 255.2 million euros (2017) |
| Branch | Laundry technology |
| Website | www.kannegiesser.de |
The Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH is a German medium-sized companies from Vlotho ( Westphalia ), the equipment for industrial laundry manufacturing technology and in this region the world leader is.
History of the company
The company's founder, Herbert Kannegiesser, was an engineer at the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory during the Nazi era . After fleeing from the Russian army, the family came to East Westphalia , where Kannegießer founded a company with four employees on April 3, 1948 in the municipality of Valdorf, now a part of the city of Vlotho . The company, initially founded under the name Valdorfer Maschinenfabrik GmbH, was renamed to Kannegiesser & Co. Maschinenfabrik GmbH a year later on May 10, 1949. In 1951 Herbert Kannegiesser became the company's sole shareholder.
The company produced band knife and ironing machines for the clothing industry with great success , in which many companies were active, especially in East Westphalia. It then specialized in ironing presses for machine ironing of shirts and also sold these abroad. As early as 1961, the company had 180 employees who achieved annual sales of around DM 25 million .
In 1966 his son Martin Kannegiesser became sales manager in his parents' company. After the death of his father, he became the owner of the company in 1974 , although he had already taken over management in 1968. As a result, he developed the company into the world market leader for industrial laundry technology.
As early as 1983 Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH presented a "one-piece ironing line" - the beginnings of a desired "complete system solution" that was continuously developed. Today the company produces almost all units for industrial laundry technology - from the washer extractor to the washing line to automatic sorting technology - with the four divisions wet area, molded parts area, flat laundry area and technical services. This wide range of products enables holistic composite solutions that cover the entire spectrum of industrial laundry technology.
In 2009, an average of 673 employees worked for the company without subsidiaries, of which 349 were industrial workers and 324 salaried employees. The annual turnover in 2009 amounted to 167 million euros, a decrease of 17.1 percent compared to the previous year.
In 2014, 100 percent of the company was transferred to a family foundation, Martin Kannegiesser initially remains the company's managing director.
Locations and subsidiaries
- Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH has six production sites in Germany:
- The company has its own sales subsidiaries in 5 countries, agencies and bases in a total of 63 countries.
- In 2005 Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH took over 100% of the British company Ducker Engineering Ltd. (today Kannegiesser UK Ltd., 130 employees, EUR 28 million annual turnover) with production sites in Kendal and Banbury .
Known company employees
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- ↑ a b c Oliver Horst: New approach for succession planning - laundry robots ready for series production Kannegiesser is working on the future. In: https://www.westfalen-blatt.de/ . Westfalenblatt, June 8, 2018, accessed December 28, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Annual financial statements 2017 available under Federal Gazette
- ↑ 450 German companies - eleven companies from OWL are world leaders. In: https://www.westfalen-blatt.de/ . Westfalenblatt, December 14, 2018, accessed on December 28, 2018 .
- ^ Karl Großmann: History of the community Valdorf ... ; Edited by the municipality of Valdorf; there in 1955; P. 164ff .; without ISBN
- ↑ Neue Westfälische: Kannegiesser brings companies into family foundation
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 15 ″ N , 8 ° 49 ′ 30 ″ E