Maquet (company)

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Maquet GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1838
resolution 2020
Reason for dissolution Full integration into the Getinge group
Seat Rastatt , Germany
management
  • Heinz Jacqui
  • Serge Exshaw
  • Reinhard Mayer
Number of employees around 7,000
sales EUR 1.55 billion (2014)
Branch Medical technology
Website maquet.com

Maquet was a German medical technology manufacturer based in Rastatt , whose name is now used as the product brand of the Getinge Group. The company was a subsidiary of the publicly listed Swedish Getinge AB and was one of the world's leading providers of medical technology for emergency rooms , operating theaters and intensive care units . Getinge continues to sell these product groups under the name of the former Maquet GmbH.

structure

In 2014, the company generated annual sales of more than 1.5 billion euros and, including its subsidiaries, had around 7,000 employees worldwide. Production lines were located at 11 locations in Germany ( Rastatt , Hirrlingen , Hechingen ), France (Ardon, La Ciotat ), Sweden ( Solna ), Turkey ( Antalya ), China ( Suzhou ) and the USA ( Wayne , Fairfield , Mahwah ).

The company comprised three areas, the so-called business divisions :

history

Foundation and relocation to Rastatt

The company was founded by Johann Friedrich Fischer in Heidelberg in 1838 and initially manufactured patient lifts and other products for the healthcare sector. Curt Maquet took over the company in 1876. At the beginning of the 20th century, C. Maquet, the new company name, was owned by the Kahn Group . In 1929 Maquet was merged with Schnellpressenfabrik AG Heidelberg and thus became its daughter. However, the production of medical technology products was maintained quite independently. Since the Schnellpressenfabrik was spun off from the Kahn Group in 1931 with Deutsche Bank and Disconto-Gesellschaft and Commerz- und Privatbank as the new main shareholders, Kahn's bankruptcy in 1932 had no major impact on Schnellpresse or Maquet. In 1933 Maquet was sold to Stierlen-Werke AG in Rastatt and the company's headquarters were relocated there.

The Maquet Academy was founded in 1999 as a forum for dialogue between business, science and hospitals .

Takeover and company acquisitions

In 2000 the company became the Medical Systems business area of the Swedish Getinge Group. Up to this point in time, Maquet was a full subsidiary of TeSSAG and thus indirectly owned by RWE . In 2003 Siemens Life Support Systems ( Solna ) was taken over as the Critical Care business division and the Jostra Group as the Cardiopulmonary business division . The Jostra Group consisted of Jostra ( Hechingen , founded in 1982 by Lars Sunnanväder) and the Polystan company (founded in 1958 by Erik Kyvsgaard, taken over by Jostra in 2001). In 2003 Maquet took over Oty GmbH (telemedicine). In 2008 the Cardiac and Vascular Surgery divisions of Boston Scientific Corp. followed. with parts of the predecessor company Guidant. They were combined with the former Jostra Group to form the Cardiovascular Business Division and in 2009 they were acquired by Datascope Corp. added. In 2014 Maquet / Getinge AB took over the German company Pulsion Medical Systems .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maquet, facts and figures
  2. ↑ Facts and Figures - About Us - Maquet , August 31, 2012
  3. ↑ Martin Krauß: From bell casting to offset printing. History of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. Pp. 65–66 and p. 75. Verlag regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2000, ISBN 978-3897351486
  4. ↑ presseportal.de: Reorganization in medical technology: Takeover of MAQUET and ALM, GETINGE market leader for surgical systems, accessed on December 8, 2018
  5. ↑ http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/1780385/getinge_medical_device_company_intelligence.pdf
  6. ↑ Pulsion Medical Systems SE: General meeting approves domination and profit and loss transfer agreement. German Society for Ad-hoc Publicity , August 14, 2014, accessed on April 6, 2015 .

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