Ortovox
| ORTOVOX Sportartikel GmbH
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
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Taufkirchen , Germany
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| management | Christian Schneidermeier |
| Branch | Outdoor / mountaineering article manufacturer |
| Website | www.ortovox.com |
The Ortovox Sportartikel GmbH (proper spelling ORTOVOX ) is an on mountain sports specialist German sporting goods manufacturer based in Taufkirchen near Munich. The company specializes in avalanche transceivers, rucksacks , avalanche emergency equipment and sportswear made from merino wool and Swiss wool.
Ortovox belongs beside Deuter Sport , Maier Sports and Gonso the part of the Group Outdoor Group of Schwanhäußer Industrie Holding GmbH & Co. KG (Schwan-Stabilo-group).
Brand name
The name of the registered trademark is made up of the German term Ortung and the Latin term vox for 'voice' and is reflected in the slogan Voice of the Mountains ('voice of the mountains').
history
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Ortovox was founded in 1980 by Gerald Kampel. In cooperation with Jürgen Wegner he developed the Ortovox F2 . This is an avalanche transceiver (LVS) that could transmit and receive on a double frequency. Before, there were only avalanche transceivers that could transmit and receive on two different frequencies (2.275 kHz and 457 kHz). This led to fatal accidents during an avalanche because Spilled in the avalanche victim search could not be recovered sufficiently quickly through the various types of equipment. The device, which was new at the time, was able to transmit and receive on both frequencies and simplified the search for buried subjects. For a long time, Ortovox was the market leader in the field of avalanche transceivers with a market share of around 60%. The Ortovox product range has been gradually expanded over the years. In 1990 the company was renamed Ortovox Sportartikel GmbH.
In 2011 Kampel sold the company to Schwan-Stabilo Industrie Holding, which is known, among other things, as a pen producer through the Schwan-Stabilo brand . Together with the companies Deuter Sport and Maier Sports, Ortovox is part of the Outdoor subgroup, which achieved sales of around 112 million euros in the 2014/15 financial year.
In 2015 the company joined the Fair Wear Foundation and the Alliance for Sustainable Textiles .
Ortovox is known in the clothing sector for its material combinations of wool with other materials.
Web links
Individual evidence
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- ↑ High-tech from Taufkirchen protects against avalanche death. In: Münchner Merkur. March 27, 2009, accessed March 1, 2016.
- ↑ Deuter now has a sister. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. July 17, 2011, accessed February 18, 2016.
- ↑ Get out of the office and into the area. In: Handelsblatt. November 30, 2015, accessed February 22, 2016.
- ↑ Schwan Stabilo press release ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. October 30, 2015, accessed March 2, 2016.
- ↑ Press release of the Fair Wear Foundation on joining ORTOVOX from July 30, 2015 , accessed on February 18, 2016.
- ^ Stefan Preuss: Schwanhäußer Industrie Holding GmbH & Co. KG: The world of pens. Part 84 of the series: Hidden Champions - Companies that the capital market wants . goingpublic.de, GoingPublic Media AG, accessed on October 29, 2018.
