Marabu (company)
| Marabu Beteiligungs-GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1859 |
| Seat | Tamm near Ludwigsburg , Germany |
| management | Executive Director:
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| Number of employees | 500 |
| sales | EUR 95.55 million |
| Branch | Chemistry , printing inks, hobby inks |
| Website | marabu.de |
| As of December 31, 2017 | |
The marabou Beteiligungs-GmbH , formerly Marabuwerke , is a medium-sized company in the field of screen , digital and pad printing inks as well as creative and hobby paints one of the leading manufacturers. The paint manufacturer employs 325 people in Germany with an export quota of 80 percent, and another 175 in foreign subsidiaries.
History of the company
Marabu was founded in Stuttgart in 1859 by Albert Martz. The initial artist and architect's supply store began producing drawing implements and artist paints in 1870. After the death of Albert Martz Jr., the son of the company founder, in 1905, the company was continued as a limited partnership . In 1909 the brand name Marabu was registered and in 1917 the KG was converted into an open trading company.
In 1919, production with 76 employees was relocated to Tamm, as the original location no longer offered sufficient development opportunities. Finally, a GmbH was founded in 1920 with the managing directors Eberhard and Eduard Martz, which was converted into a stock corporation in 1923 . In 1967 the AG was transformed into today's GmbH. The first subsidiary was founded in France in 1970. Today the Simon and Thorban families each own 50% of the company shares in the fifth generation. A managing partner and two external managing directors are responsible for managing the company.
Marabu produced printing inks for the first time in the 1950s . The screen printing era began for Marabu with the introduction of the Marapid . Today the Swabian paint manufacturer produces products such as Marastar SR , Ultragraph UVAR and Tampatex TPX .
Products
- Drawing devices
For a while, Marabu produced drawing boards, drawing boards and rulers under the Marabu Techno product range . The production of the drawing instruments was stopped in 1996.
- Printing inks
Marabu produces printing inks, varnishes and liquid coatings for the following printing technologies:
The head office is in Tamm near Ludwigsburg . The printing inks for the graphic industry as well as industrial and decorative printing are developed and produced here. Marabu has subsidiaries in Russia, Italy, France, Great Britain, Sweden (Scandinavia), Brazil, China, USA and Singapore.
- Creative colors
Only a few kilometers away, in Bietigheim-Bissingen , the second plant, which was founded in 2004, produces artist and creative paints such as WindowColor, or fun & fancy , Basic Acryl , Textilplus and other hobby paints such as oil paints . There are also paints for the do-it-yourself area, as well as brushes and painters.
Production and Research & Development
The products are developed in our own laboratories. Printing inks are developed in the Tamm plant, creative colors in the Bietigheim-Bissingen plant.
Production takes place at both locations in Germany and for the South American market in a plant in Paraguay. Liquid coatings are manufactured in the US subsidiary in Charleston (South Carolina) .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2017 in the electronic Federal Gazette
- ↑ 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 .