Kneipp GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1891 |
| Seat | Wurzburg , Germany |
| management | Alexander C. Schmidt (chair), Frank Titus |
| Number of employees | 650 (2018) |
| sales | 102 million euros (2010) |
| Branch | personal hygiene |
| Website | www.kneipp.com |
The company Kneipp GmbH (formerly Kneipp-Werke Kneipp-Mittel-Zentrale GmbH & Co. KG or Kneipp-Heilmittel-Werk ) is a manufacturer of naturopathic products based in Würzburg in Bavaria . Sebastian Kneipp laid the foundation stone for the company in 1891 together with the pharmacists Leonhard Oberhäußer and Robert Landauer; today the Kneipp-Werke are a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hartmann Group .
history
The history of Kneipp GmbH began in 1891 when the Bavarian priest Sebastian Kneipp transferred all rights to pharmaceutical and cosmetic products to the pharmacist Leonhard Oberhäußer (1854–1937), who ran the Engelapotheke on Oberer Markt in Würzburg and who had met Kneipp through a school friend to sell under the name Kneipp. Co-founder of the Kneipp works ("Oberhäuser & Landauer Kneipp-Haus-Centrale") was Robert Landauer (1849-1916), the owner of the Einhorn pharmacy , who, however, sold his rights to his partner Oberhäußer as early as 1892. The first product that was marketed by Oberhäuser's “Kneipp-Heilmittelwerk” under the name Kneipp, were the Kneipp pills against constipation, which were sold in Oberhäuser's Engel pharmacy in 1897 .
After Kneipp's death, Oberhäußer continued to produce and sell medicinal products. After Leonhard Oberhäußer had also died, his son Hermann Oberhäußer took over the management of the newly operating Kneipp-Mittel-Zentrale, which had also supplied pharmacies since 1920 .
After the Second World War, the Kneipp-Werke was separated from the Engel-Apotheke and renamed the Kneipp-Heilmittel-Werk. In 1958 the company moved to a former restaurant in the Steinbachtal in Würzburg; the headquarters are still located there today. In the 1970s, the company expanded and began selling the products in drugstores and food retailers. The new plant in Würzburg- Heidingsfeld and the establishment of a subsidiary in the Netherlands also took place in the 1970s.
In 1980 the then managing director Luitpold Leusser founded a tea factory in Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria . After the death of Luitpold Leusser in 1996, the new management continued the expansion of the Kneipp-Werke and founded subsidiaries in the United States, Switzerland and Austria and initiated the construction of the new location in Ochsenfurt .
In 2001 the Hartmann Group took over 80 percent of the company's shares; the remaining 20 percent of the shares were taken over in April 2008.
In February 2012, the company announced that the Bad Wörishofen location would be closed in mid-2013. In March 2013 there was a change of legal form from Kneipp-Werke Kneipp-Mittel-Zentrale GmbH & Co KG to Kneipp GmbH in favor of the Kneipp brand.
Products
Kneipp manufactures various products in the field of naturopathy. Bath products or products for body care (creams and ointments) as well as herbal medicines and food supplements as well as food belong to the company's range.
Locations
Kneipp GmbH produces at two locations:
- Würzburg-Heidingsfeld : Production of liquid products and logistics
- Ochsenfurt-Hohestadt : Production of solid, semi-solid and liquid products
The former production site in Bad Wörishofen for bath salts and tablets was closed.
In addition, the company has its own sales companies for France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Japan as well as sales partnerships in 17 other countries.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: It will be over in mid-2013
- ^ Kneipp works Würzburg-Bad Wörishofen (ed.): The Kneipp pharmacist garden. Bad Wörishofen o. J. (1990), p. 1 ( Why Kneipp Apothekergarten at the State Garden Show )
- ↑ Botanical Garden of the University of Würzburg: General Herbarium .
- ^ Karlheinz Bartels : The pharmacy system of the city of Würzburg. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 1334, note 19.
- ↑ a b kneipp.com - Kneipp in numbers accessed on March 23, 2018
Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 13.1 ″ N , 9 ° 54 ′ 51.8 ″ E