Pelikan Group

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The Pelikan Group GmbH (formerly Pelikan AG and Herlitz AG until April 2015) is one of the leading brand providers of quality products in the paper, office and stationery sectors as well as stationery. The international branded goods company is now represented worldwide with 17 national and sales companies. The group also has four production facilities in different countries. The group also offers logistics services for internal and external customers.

history

2015: Integration of Pelikan holdings into Herlitz AG and change of name to Pelikan AG

On the basis of a general meeting resolution from December 2014 and a contract from March 2015, Pelikan International Corporation, Pelikan Holding and two other group companies brought ten of their subsidiaries into Herlitz AG on April 30, 2015, including the Pelikan activities in Mexico , Colombia , Argentina , Japan , the United Arab Emirates , Belgium , Switzerland and Italy . Herlitz AG financed the takeover with a capital increase in kind amounting to 231 million shares. At the same time Herlitz AG was renamed Pelikan AG.

For August 2015, a cash capital increase of up to 32.8 million shares was planned in connection with a placement of 60 million shares from the holdings of Pelikan Holding. However, only 0.38% and 0.16% of these offers were accepted by the shareholders, so that there was no significant change in the shareholder structure after the share placement and capital increase. With the capital increase in kind in April 2015, however, the ownership structure of the former Herlitz AG had changed significantly:

Shareholders Share at the end of 2014 Share May 2015
Pelikan International Corporation 71.3% 98.7%
Free float 28.7% 1.3%

At the beginning of 2016, Pelikan International Corporation confirmed its intention to sell shares in Pelikan AG.

2017: Squeeze-out procedure of Pelikan AG and conversion to Pelikan Group GmbH

At the beginning of December 2017, the shares of the minority shareholders of Pelikan Aktiengesellschaft were transferred to Pelikan International Corporation Berhard (PICB) and the stock corporation was converted into a non-listed stock corporation.

Pelikan AG was converted into Pelikan Group GmbH on December 21, 2017 as part of the corporate strategy to streamline organizational structures.

Products

Pelikan felt pens

Under the brands Pelikan , Herlitz , Geha and Susy Card, Pelikan carries an assortment of approx. 12,000 articles for the paper, office and stationery sector and school supplies. In addition to school items such as exercise books, drawing pads, colored pencils and rulers, this also includes school satchels (school bags), student cases and compasses. In the area of ​​office supplies, the company offers folders, loose-leaf binders, hole punches and filing systems, greeting cards, wrapping paper, party and picnic items as well as writing implements (fountain pens, ballpoint pens, pencils). Up to 2008, 60% of the articles were produced in-house (among other things, Herlitz once produced over 80 million file folders and was thus the global market leader in folder production), the rest were classic OEM articles. The export share was 37% in 2006.

Production sites

The current production facilities of Pelikan Group GmbH are in Falkensee near Berlin (until December 31, 2019), in Poznan (Poland), in Mexico and Colombia, and Pelikan Holding AG (Switzerland) in Peine- Vöhrum.

Pelikan Logistics continues to supply around 8500 sales outlets in Germany directly. Another 3000 customers across Europe are served by Pelikan.

Managing directors

Hooi Keat Loo and Claudio Esteban Seleguan.

Web links

Commons : Pelikan (company)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Annual Report 2014 of Herlitz AG, pages 54, 99 and 124; Annual report 2015 of Pelikan AG, including pages 34, 74 and 167.
  2. ↑ bossticker, news portal of the stationery industry, August 25, 2015: "Pelikan shareholders are holding back on new shares"
  3. ↑ 26.63% directly, 51.43% via Pelikan Holding AG, 20.65% via MOLKARI Vermietungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. Objekt Falkensee KG
  4. ↑ Ad hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG , dgap.de, January 25, 2016.
  5. ↑ Squeeze-out: Pelikan Int. Berhad becomes the sole owner of Pelikan AG , pbs-business.de, December 15, 2017
  6. ↑ Katrin Terpitz, Frederic Spohr: Stationery manufacturer: Small investors feel “lied to and betrayed” by the Pelikan owner , handelsblatt.com, October 25, 2018
  7. ^ Pelikan Group GmbH , handelsregister-online.de
  8. ↑ https://www.pelikan.com/pulse/Pulsar/de_DE.CMS.displayCMS.212784./pelikan-group