Stihl Tirol
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1981 |
| Seat | Langkampfen , Austria |
| management | Clemens Schaller |
| Number of employees | 639 (2019) |
| sales | EUR 456.1 million (2019) |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | stihl-tirol.at |
| As of June 8, 2020 | |
The Stihl Tirol GmbH (until 2018: Viking GmbH ) is an Austrian manufacturer of gardening tools . The company develops, produces and sells lawn mowers, robotic lawn mowers, ride-on mowers, garden shredders, tillers and scarifiers.
Viking was a wholly owned subsidiary of the German company Stihl , and also carries out parts of the series assembly for some Stihl brand devices .
history
In 1981 Viking was founded in Kufstein as a manufacturer of garden shredders. In 1984 Viking developed its own line of lawn mowers. In 1992 the company was taken over by the German mechanical engineering company Stihl.
In July 2018 the company was renamed Stihl Tirol GmbH . The devices have been marketed under the name Stihl since 2019 ; the color is now also the orange from Stihl.
Sales / markets
The company sells the garden tools it produces exclusively through specialist retailers (11,000 specialist dealers across Europe).
The company's export share has been consistently high for several years at 97 to 98%, and the products are sold in around 60 countries. The most important export markets are Germany , France , Benelux , Russia , Poland , Great Britain , Norway and Sweden .
Key figures
| Key figures of Viking GmbH | |||||||||||
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |||||||
| Employees | Heads | 373 | 414 | 480 | 558 | 639 | |||||
| sales | in thousands of EUR | 193,900 | 266.995 | 381,871 | 385,700 | 456.100 | |||||
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c STIHL Tirol is growing and defying the corona crisis . STIHL Tirol GmbH, press release, May 20, 2020, accessed on June 8, 2020.
- ↑ http ://www.mein Bezirk.at/kufstein/wirtschaft/viking-gmbh-heisst-nun-stihl-tirol-gmbh-markenwechsel-schritt-voran-d2705255.html
- ↑ viking.at: FAQs about the brand change
- ↑ Specialist trade
- ↑ a b VIKING with a significant increase in sales . Viking GmbH, press release, April 20, 2017, accessed March 30, 2018.
- ↑ viking.at: Another increase in sales for VIKING
- ↑ VIKING also saw a significant increase in sales in 2017 . Viking GmbH, press release, April 25, 2018, accessed on July 26, 2019.
- ↑ STIHL Tirol: Healthy growth and investments . Viking GmbH, press release, May 16, 2018, accessed on July 26, 2019.