Karl Storz endoscopes

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KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG

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legal form SE & Co. KG
founding 1945
Seat Tuttlingen
management Karl-Christian Storz
Number of employees 8,000 (2019)
sales 1.75 billion EUR (2018)
Branch Medical technology
Website www.karlstorz.com

The company KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG from Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg is a family company founded in 1945 that produces and sells medical instruments and devices. The medical technology manufacturer is the global market leader for human medicine instruments for minimally invasive surgery and for rigid endoscopes for examining body cavities and is one of the leading manufacturers in the industrial endoscopy segment. The company has been run by his daughter, Sybill Storz , since 1996 after the death of the founder Karl Storz . At the beginning of 2019, her son Karl-Christian Storz took over the management.

history

The surgical mechanic Karl Storz founded his company in Tuttlingen in 1945 and initially mainly manufactured instruments and lamps for the field of ear, nose and throat medicine . After the company's steady growth, the first subsidiary in the USA , KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America, Inc., was founded in 1971 . In 1987, the first laparoscopic removal of a gallbladder marked the beginning of so-called minimally invasive surgery , to which the instruments of the Storz company on the one hand made a major contribution, but on the other hand also made a major contribution to the further development of the Storz company.

After the death of the founder Karl Storz in 1996, his daughter Sybill took over the company management and drove the expansion of the company. More than 100 new patents since she took office and annual sales growth rates between 15 and 20 percent attest to Sybill Storz's entrepreneurial skills. In 1998, KARL STORZ presented the networked OR1 operating room, and in 1999 a logistics and training center was opened in Tuttlingen. In 2000 the company introduced the first mobile documentation system for the technical use of endoscopy.

In 2019 Karl-Christian Storz took over the management of the operational business and his mother Sybill Storz became head of the supervisory board.

In the years after 2000 the managing director Sybill Storz received a number of awards for her entrepreneurial achievements and her social commitment.

Products

The company manufactures products for human medicine (since 1945), veterinary medicine (since 1989) and industrial use (since 1976). The product range includes more than 8000 different devices, from simple rigid endoscopes to accessories such as light sources, light guides and cameras to the completely networked OR1 operating room . Thanks to the wide range of possible uses for endoscopy, the company's devices are now used in almost all medical and many technical disciplines.

Locations

Production building of Karl Storz Endoscopes in Tuttlingen

In addition to the headquarters in Tuttlingen, the company is represented in a total of 44 countries with 47 locations.

production

In Germany, the company also produces in Stutensee near Karlsruhe , in addition to Tuttlingen . Further production locations are Tallinn (Estonia), Dundee (Great Britain), Schaffhausen and Widnau (Switzerland) as well as the two US locations in Charlton and Goleta .

Marketing and sales companies

The company operates marketing and sales companies in a total of 44 countries.

Company data

In addition to the headquarters in Tuttlingen, the company has seven other production facilities. More than 8,000 people are employed in 47 sales and marketing companies worldwide, around 3,000 of them at the headquarters in Tuttlingen. Up to 150 apprentices are trained in twelve professions. The company's total turnover in 2018 was over 1.75 billion euros.

Karl Storz SE & Co. KG is a member of the trade association for industrial companies in Baden .

social commitment

In addition to supporting local sporting events, the company takes part in the UN Global Compact initiative . As part of the campaign initiated by Kofi Annan , the company is participating in the development of six health centers in India, in which doctors there are to be trained in the field of minimally invasive surgery.

The company donates the KARL STORZ Telemedicine Prize of the German Society for Telemedicine, endowed with 5,000 euros .

museum

The company's head office is to be transformed into an interactive science museum , which will also showcase the company's 70-year history .

literature

  • Burkhard Riering: Karl Storz - The visionary , in: ders., Swabian pioneers. From the workshop to the global company. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei (bvd), Biberach 2012, ISBN 978-3-943391-16-9 , pp. 18-27.

Movie

  • Journey into the body - medical technology from Storz in Tuttlingen. Documentary film, Germany, 2016, 29:48 min., Script and director: Tamara Spitzing, production: SWR , series: made in Südwest , first broadcast: April 6, 2016 on SWR, synopsis by ARD , online video available until April 5 2017.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b career portal. In: career.karlstorz.com , accessed on April 26, 2016.
  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 .
  3. ↑ a b Prize winner 2006: Sybill Storz. In: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , accessed on April 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b Ludger Möllers: “With enthusiasm and diligence!” ( Memento from January 24, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Schwäbische Zeitung of May 10, 2012, beginning of the article .
      Company museum and interactive museum. In: karlstorz.com , accessed on April 26, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b KARL STORZ locations worldwide | KARL STORZ endoscopes. Retrieved August 16, 2019 .
  6. ^ Ludger Möllers: Karl Storz: Swabian pioneer and company founder. ( Memento of July 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Schwäbische Zeitung , December 9, 2012.
  7. ↑ Member company of the wvib
  8. ↑ pm: Karl Storz sports event. ( Memento from August 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: Schwäbische Zeitung , March 21, 2007, (PDF; 351 kB).

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