Joh. A. Benckiser

Joh A. Benckiser SE is a financial holding the Reimann family, which now include, among others, a share of 15.42% of Reckitt Benckiser, the majority of the perfume house Coty and the Holding Labelux. Today's holding arose from the chemical company Benckiser, headquartered in Ludwigshafen, with Reckitt & Coleman merged to Reckitt Benckiser in 1999.

• 2.1 Donata and Parentes Holding
• 2.2 Labelux

History to 1999

Beginnings of Benckiser

Johann Adam Benckiser founded in 1823 in Pforzheim a Salmiakhütte, was in the ammonia derived from ammonium chloride and hydrochloric acid. In the following years Benckiser acquires a gold goods factory in Pforzheim and established a faience factory in Durlach. Later he met the chemist Ludwig Reimann know in Durlach, with whom he founded a chemical plant together in 1851. The chemical plant produces wine, lemon and food acids. In 1858 the company moves to Ludwigshafen and producing phosphates. 1854 first business to Jeremiah Colman from Norwich, UK to be made, the sold with Reckitt & Sons laundry starch to Ludwigshafen. The entry into the production of phosphorus salts took place in 1916.

Structure under Albert Reimann

Mid-1930s of Albert Reimann the management of medium-sized chemical company Johann A. Benckiser GmbH in Ludwigshafen. The lawyer and judge Reimann was from 1937 to 1941 President of the IHK Pfalz, later a member of the Advisory Board of the Chamber of Commerce Ludwigshafen and honorary member of the resident Ludwigshafen Rowing Club. The chemical company Benckiser developed from 1956 household and industrial cleaners. The brands Calgon (1956 ), Calgonit (1964 ), Clearasil, Dettol and Quanto (1966 ) to be developed. In 1963, Martin Gruber has been committed to the purchasing manager of the chemical company. Gruber was appointed mid-70s by Albert Reimann to the chief executive. After the death of Albert Reimann in 1984, the company was inherited by his four adopted children.

Expansion, conversion and merger with Reckitt & Colman

Managing Director Martin Gruber took the early 1980s by the consulting firm Boston Consulting Group Peter Harf. He built the chemical company to radically and this was limited to the divisions washing, rinsing, cleaning and cosmetics. He pushed off some branches and bought more than 25 companies in the U.S., Italy, Spain and the UK. While sales just was approximately 250 million German marks the beginning of the 1980s, he was raised in a decade to ten times. Early 90s took Peter Harf then Bernd Beetz the company.

End of 1989, the divisions Benckiser GmbH Germany are formed as a distribution company in Ludwigshafen and Ladenburg and production Benckiser GmbH. Peter Harf split the company in 1996 to continue with Benckiser Detergent and Coty for the cosmetics sector. In 1997, it comes to the IPO of Benckiser NV on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. Mid-1999, merged the listed Benckiser NV with the British group Reckitt & Colman and is used to Reckitt Benckiser. The company generated in 2000 already about 3.2 billion pounds, or about 4.2 billion euro.

Financial holding Johann A. Benckiser

The Johann A. Benckiser GmbH, with its investments in Coty Reckitt Benckiser became a financial holding Johann A. Benckiser ( JAB ) of the Reimann family. Two of the adoptive children brought capital in a foundations: the Günter Reimann - Dubbers Foundation in the area of ​​family, education and health and a foundation in the field of renewable energy, both headquartered in Heidelberg. In 2004 came two cousins ​​in the financial holding, with a total of 10 children. The assets of the Reimann family is estimated in the fall of 2012 to approximately 11 billion euros.

Donata and Parentes Holding

Based on the discussions about the German inheritance tax the financial holding company was relocated in December 2006 to Vienna and transfer the Shares to the Parentes Holding SE and Donata Holding SE. About this companies about 10.5 percent of the share capital of Reckitt Benckiser continue to be held.

In 2012, JAB acquired over Parentes / Donata for a billion dollars a Californian coffeehouse chain and roasting Peet 's Coffee & Tea and for $ 340 million, the coffee shop chain, Caribou Coffee Company. In June 2013, the IPO of Coty in New York took place; after a successful IPO JAB continues to hold 85 % of the voting rights.

2013, a consortium led by the Dutch Benckiser coffee and Teeproduktehersteller DE Master Blenders in 1753 (including Douwe Egberts, Pickwick ).

Labelux

In 2007, the Holding Labelux Group was established for new acquisitions in the luxury goods industry, which in addition to the London jewelery designer Solange Azagury - Partridge company, the Swiss luxury fashion brand Bally and the Italian leather goods manufacturer Zagliani belong. In July 2008, the U.S. fashion brand Derek Lam was acquired in May 2011 for EUR 576 million of the U.S. shoe manufacturer Jimmy Choo.