Hill Rome
| Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc.
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| legal form |
Corporation Public Company (USA) |
| ISIN | US4314751029 |
| founding | 1929 |
| Seat |
Batesville , Indiana 
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| management | John J. Greisch President and CEO |
| Number of employees | 7000 |
| Branch | Medical technology company |
| Website | http://www.hill-rom.com |
| As of July 19, 2015 | |
Hill-Rom Holdings, Incorporated is a US medical device company. Hill-Rom, Liko, acquired in 2008, and Welch Allyn, acquired in 2015, operate under the umbrella of the holding companies . The German subsidiary, Hill-Rom GmbH, is based in Essen .
history
Company founder John Hillenbrand from Batesville (Indiana) manufactured wooden coffins from 1884. In 1909 he took over the Batesville Coffin Company and renamed it the Batesville Casket Company. The company, which still exists today, has a total of eight factories in the USA and Mexico. In 2010 it was the largest coffin manufacturer in the USA. Hillenbrand Inc. was founded in 2008 and outsourced together with Batesville. The company will continue to be run by the Hillenbrand family and in 2015 had around 6,000 employees. The former holding company Hillenbrand Industries took over the name of the subsidiary Hill-Rom in the same year.
Hill-Rom was founded in 1929 by William A. Hillenbrand and originally made wooden beds for hospitals. Today the company also manufactures other healthcare furniture, lifts , wound care products and IT solutions and has factories in the US, Mexico and France. The company Liko, a specialist in person lifters, founded in Sweden in 1979, was taken over by Hill-Rom in 2008 and from 2011 also Liko in France and Switzerland. In the field of hospital beds, Hill-Rom was the market leader in the USA at the turn of the millennium.
In 2012, the German company Völker GmbH from Witten was taken over by Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. With this takeover, Hill-Rom pursued a two-brand strategy. With different products under the name Hill-Rom and Völker beds. In August 2017, Hill-Rom sold Völker to the private investment company CoBe Capital LLC.
In 2012, the acquisition of Aspen Surgical, founded in 1999, followed.
In August 2014, the takeover of Trumpf Medical and TRUMPF Medizin Systeme GmbH + Co. KG, a German company based in Saalfeld for medical equipment for operating rooms and intensive care units with around 820 employees and a turnover of 222 million euros in 2016. Trumpf medical, in turn, took over Blancomed GmbH in 1998, which was created in the course of privatization in 1990 and the spin-off of several companies at the Saalfeld location in October 1991. In 2001, Trumpf Medical also took over the company KREUZER GmbH + Co. KG, a German manufacturer of ceiling mounts for the operating theater, intensive care and endoscopy based in Puchheim .
In 2015, Hill-Rom acquired Welch Allyn , a medical technology company founded in 1915, for around $ 2.05 billion. Welch Allyn also had a plant in Germany from 1921 to 2012.
In February 2017, the company Mortara Instrument, founded in 1982, was taken over; This manufacturer of medical devices is particularly active in the EKG sector. Mortara Instrument products will continue to operate under the Welch Allyn brand.
Brands
- Hill Rome
- Allen (since 1999)
- Liko (from 2008)
- Aspen Surgical (since 2012)
- Trumpf Medical (since 2014) (previously taken over by Trumpf Medical from Blancomed and Kreuzer)
- Welch Allyn (from 2015)
Web links
- Homepage of the Hill-Rom Holding.
Individual evidence
- ^ Dana Mattioli: Casket Makers Dig In as Sales Take Hit. In: The Wall Street Journal , February 24, 2010.
- ↑ Investor Overview. hillenbrand.com
- ^ Hillenbrand, Inc. (HI). Yahoo Finance.
- ↑ Company profile on nndb.com
- ↑ Company Overview on hill-rom.com
- ^ Liko becomes a Hill Rom Group company. liko.com (undated).
- ↑ Cinda Becker: An Industry Barometer. In: Modern Healthcare , June 18, 2001.
- ↑ The company. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Chelsey Dulaney: Hill-Rom to Buy Welch Allyn for $ 2.05 Billion. In: The Wall Street Journal , June 17, 2015.
- ↑ Volker Rath: Welch Allyn makes tight, In: Schwarzwälder Bote , December 12, 2012.