Netafim
| Netafim | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1965 |
| Seat |
Tel Aviv , Israel
|
| management | Ran Maidan |
| Number of employees | 4,000 |
| sales | 773 million US dollars ( 2014 ) |
| Branch | irrigation |
| Website | www.netafim.com |
Netafim ( Hebrew נטפים) is an Israeli company and one of the world's largest manufacturers of artificial irrigation systems . The shareholders are Permira (61%) and the kibbutzim Chazerim (33%) Magal (6%).
history
From 1960 to 1965 Simcha Blass developed drip irrigation in Israel . In 1965 he founded the Netafim company with the help of Kibbutz Chazerim. In 2011 the majority was taken over by the private equity company Permira.
In 2017, Netafim was taken over by the Mexican chemical company Mexichem .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Management
- ↑ About Us ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ duns100.globes.co.il
- ↑ Sustainability Report 2013 ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hans-Christian Rößler: Israel's kibbutzim world market leader from the Negev desert . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 29, 2011 ( faz.net ).
- ^ Mexichem Completes the Acquisition of Netafim , February 7, 2018.
