Herma (company)

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HERMA Holding GmbH + Co KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1906
Seat Filderstadt , Germany
management Sven Schneller (Chairman)
Thomas Baumgärtner
Number of employees 1,097
sales EUR 364.4 million
Branch Paper , engineering , packaging
Website www.herma.de
As of December 31, 2019

Herma in Filderstadt-Bonlanden

The HERMA GmbH is a German company based in Filderstadt (district Bonlanden), the labels , labeling machines produced and adhesive material. Around 1,100 people are employed at the German headquarters and in six branches (five in Europe and one in the USA).

history

Heinrich Hermann (1870–1939) laid the foundation stone for the company in 1906 when he founded a small printing company in Stuttgart-Wangen . Despite the difficult economic situation during the First World War and the subsequent inflation, Heinrich Hermann Papierwarenfabrik was able to expand its business and move into a new building in Wangen in 1925.

The breakthrough came in 1926 with the invention of the photo corner , which was the company's mainstay of sales for decades. The photo corners are still offered today under the product name Transparol , which was introduced in 1931 .

After Heinrich Hermann's death in 1939, his wife Christine and his eldest son Eberhard ran the business. After Eberhard fell shortly before the end of the war, Hermann's younger sons Werner and Heinrich jun. The Board. At the end of the 1940s, the Hermann paper goods factory employed more than 200 people.

From 1951, Hermann was the first German company to produce self-adhesive labels. The adhesive labels for pricing created the most important prerequisite for self-service in retail.

In 1961 a second plant was inaugurated in Bonlanden on the Fildern. At this point in time, HERMA, the new name, had 610 employees. In 1965 another production facility followed in Deizisau. The company continued to expand, the export share rose to more than 25 percent. In 1970 HERMA employed over 1,000 people. The first subsidiary was founded in France in 1971.

After Heinrich Hermann jun. In 1976 Werner Hermann ran the company together with Werner Röhm, who became sole managing director in 1982. Röhm was at the head of the company until 2003.

In 2007 a new building was built at the Filderstadt-Bonlanden plant with the largest coating system in the world with an integrated roller store. The 35 million euro coating system produces adhesive material at a speed of 1,200 m / min, which corresponds to a speed of 70 km / h.

Due to a lack of expansion options, the headquarters in Stuttgart-Wangen was closed in June 2008. The labels business area and central corporate units were completely integrated into the Filderstadt-Bonlanden location. The labeling machines division moved to the Deizisau location. In 2016, HERMA announced that it would significantly expand the location in Filderstadt-Bonlanden. At the same time, the location in Deizisau was closed. The labeling machines division has also been based in Filderstadt-Bonlanden since 2019. In addition, an extension of the adhesive material production was added.

Today HERMA has a total of 1,097 employees at seven locations (as of the end of 2019), around 850 of them in Germany. Of the around 365 million euros in sales per year, 61% are exported.

Products

HERMA's activities are divided into the three business areas of labels, labeling machines and adhesive material.

The labels area comprises an assortment of more than 3,000 items. These include office and household labels, special labels for industry and trade (e.g. particularly heat- or liquid-resistant labels) as well as related products such as adhesive films, reinforcement rings, etc. In addition, there is an extensive range of school products, which are mainly based on the Concentrated protection of books and notebooks (book covers, notebook covers, book protection films).

The self-adhesive material division produces the same and thus forms the basis for the labels division. The adhesive compounds produced (including labels and backing material) are also supplied to companies that use them to manufacture their own label solutions.

The third division develops and produces labeling machines and applicators. They are required for the industrial application of labels. While the complete labeling machines are primarily ordered by end users (such as cosmetics, pharmaceutical and food manufacturers), HERMA also supplies its labelers to other machine manufacturers, e.g. B. for rotary machines in beverage filling.

Corporate structure

The HERMA company is still family-owned. The HERMA GmbH shareholder is HERMA Holding GmbH + Co. KG . At this are HERMA Holding Management GmbH as general partner and 30 limited partners involved.

In addition, HERMA has another production facility for labeling machines in England, and another location there sells adhesive material. The subsidiaries in France, the Netherlands and Austria are sales offices. In mid-2016, a new sales and service branch was opened in the USA that sells labeling machines.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HERMA press archive. Retrieved April 6, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Structure of the HERMA Group (PDF; 573 kB), accessed on April 6, 2017
  3. ↑ HERMA press archive. Retrieved April 6, 2017 .