Implenia

Implenia AG, headquartered in Dietlikon in Canton Zurich is the largest construction and construction services in Switzerland. It was created in early 2006 from the merger of the Basel Batigroup Holding AG with the Geneva Zschokke Holding SA.

In 2011 the company achieved a consolidated turnover of 2.5 billion Swiss francs. Implenia employed more than 5648 employees in 2011.

History

Implenia arose from a series of mergers of regional construction companies. In mid-1997 the Preiswerk Holding AG, the Swiss road construction and civil engineering company AG merged ( Stuag ) / Stuag Holding AG and lard AG Construction / lard Holding AG Batigroup holding company headquartered in Basel. Core competencies of Batigroup included in particular the classical construction activities, including road construction, mastic asphalt, civil engineering, tunneling and construction.

Zschokke Holding formed the basis in 1872 in Aarau by Conrad Zschokke ( 1842-1918 ) founded corporation Conrad Zschokke. Through acquisitions and mergers were, among other things, the corporation Heinr. Hatt- Haller and Goehner Merkur AG ( Totalunternehmung ) Parts of Zschokke holding company whose headquarters was recently in Geneva. Zschokke acquired thereby next to the building construction in particular the general planning, general contracting and property management at.

Due to the largely complementary business Zschokke and Batigroup in 2005 led talks on a merger of the two companies in the summer. As a result of the talks to the public was on 15 November 2005 announced the intention to merge to Implenia and renamed the ZB Didumos AG was founded as a wildcard company for future business in Implenia AG. The completion of the merger went ahead an audit by the federal competition commission, which was approved on 20 February 2006 without conditions.

The merger finally approved on 2 March 2006, in parallel, held general meetings of the shareholders and Zschokke Batigroup to which the prepared fusion was retrospectively completed on 1 January. The shares of Zschokke and Batigroup were delisted after the close of trading on the SIX Swiss Exchange on March 3. Was full Attracted the merger by exchange of shares against the new Implenia shares, with the value ratio of 65 ( Zschokke ) was set to 35 ( Batigroup ). First trading day of Implenia shares on the Swiss Exchange was the 6th of March.

Divisions

The Implenia Group is divided into three business areas Real Estate, Infrastructure Construction and Industrial Construction.

The Implenia General Contracting AG, based in Basel, goes back to the Goehner Merkur AG. To the field including the planning and implementation of buildings - with a focus on real estate - starting with preliminary studies on approval process until the sale respectively the handover of the completed project. Among the supervised projects will find buildings like the high-rise Hagenholz ( Sunrise Tower ) or the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich.

Implenia Construction SA ( Implenia Construction Ltd. ), based in Geneva includes the traditional construction sectors of Batigroup and Zschokke. The division is divided internally into the areas of Infrastructure Construction ( building construction, road construction and civil engineering ) and Industrial construction ( underground mining, civil engineering, turnkey contractor ). These projects include sections of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, the dock, " midfield " at Zurich airport or the railway engineering equipment of the Lötschberg base tunnel.

The Implenia Real Estate AG, headquartered in Wallisellenstrasse is by the merger most developed division of Implenia. Area of ​​responsibility is the real estate management and real estate marketing. Is also based in Wallisellenstrasse is Implenia Immobilien AG, which company law the former Batigroup covers. Which emerged from the Zschokke Group, specializing in real estate services Privera AG, however, was retroactively in May 2009 at the beginning of 2008 to the western Swiss investment company Bugena SA.