edding
The edding AG is a stationery manufacturer based in Ahrensburg.
Edding is the trade name for felt pens, markers and other writing instruments. edding pens are available in different colors and line thicknesses to buy.
Business
The company was founded in 1960 in Hamburg- Barmbek by Carl- Wilhelm Edding and Volker Detlef leather man with a starting capital of $ 500. The two founders agreed on the company name edding because they felt it would be for memorable and international. First, they only operated an import of felt tip pens from Japan, to them. Using the marker " edding No. 1 ", his first own product offering and were able to achieve a sensational success in the market right away. Importantly, these markers were initially only given to the area economy and trucking, until they found office management, workshops and studios in the catchment areas and could be used by their special nature, even on hot, greasy or wet surfaces. The company's product range has been extended until today to approximately 200 markers.
1965 ( presentation boards ) of visual communication were taken into the portfolio under the brand "plan master" products. Five years later, the headquarters was moved to Ahrensburg.
Since 1986, the year of exit Carl- Wilhelm Eddings from the company, the company on the stock exchange in Frankfurt shares are traded on the Main. In the same year the construction of the distribution and logistics center in Wunstorf.
Until 1992 edding worked as a pure sales company. After the acquisition of the East German brand " Striking " from Singwitz of Bautzen in 1993 in Bautzen under the subsidiary "V. D. Ledermann GmbH & Co. " the first own production plant in Germany built with a production volume of 60 million units annually. Today, the plant occupies the status of a center of excellence within the group of companies.
The Dutch company " LEGA Industrie BV " in Lochem was acquired in 1998 and the two ranges LEGA and master plan will continue under the brand Legamaster 1999. With the acquisition through the branches " edding Lega International BV " in the Netherlands and in Mechelen in Belgium.
2000 begins the further expansion and there are branches in Italy (until 2010 ), Greece and Argentina and from 2001 in France and Turkey.
To edding AG, the operative holding today include subsidiaries in 10 countries. The edding International GmbH is responsible for the production and distribution.
( :; 2010 111 500 000: 109 300 000; 2009: 2011 99.5 million; 2008: 113.9 million ) in fiscal year 2012, the edding AG achieved consolidated sales of 116.5 million euros. Here, 40 percent of sales in Germany, 50 percent in the rest of Europe and 10 % overseas were obtained.
In February 2010, Edding has outsourced the business of visual communication Lega master back to a limited company. The largest sales growth accrued to the enterprise with e- boards, interactive white boards on which inputs are digitized on whiteboard surfaces and transferred to computer systems. In the area of markers, the introduction of the sub-brand " Edding Funtastics " for children from 6 years done.
The company is managed since 2005 by CEO Per Ledermann ( son of co-founder Volker Ledermann ). Currently (2013 ) the Board has three members. Former Executive and banker Rüdiger Kallenberg stands in front of the Supervisory Board.
Brands
Edding
Frequently the term edding is also used as a generic name for permanent markers. In addition edding also sells touch-up paint varying line thickness and color, the term paint markers. Under graffiti sprayers developed " the Edding " cult tool for tagging.
Legamaster
Lega Master is the trade name of edding AG for office equipment in the field of visual communication, for example, for equipment of conference or seminar rooms, eg Flipcharts, whiteboards and e-learning and was born from the merger of the ranges " LEGA " and "plan master".