Kapsch

Kapsch AG, headquartered in Vienna and has offices worldwide is a telecommunications and telematics group. In the marketing year 2012/2013 the company achieved a turnover of 928 million euros with a total of 5266 employees.

History

Johann Kapsch (1845-1921) founded in September 1892 in Vienna a fine mechanical workshop to their customers very soon kk Postal and Telegraph Administration was. 1916, the company was transformed into the telephone and telegraph Fabriks - stock company Kapsch & Sons. With the progressive development of electrical engineering is extended the product range to include electro- chemical products, such as capacitors and batteries. From 1923 produced Kapsch the first radio receivers, the first television sets were to follow in 1955. After the Second World War Kapsch was involved in cooperation with the Austrian postal instrumental in the reconstruction of the telephone network.

Starting in 1978 was performed by a separate circuit board production, a focus on digital communications systems. Began in 1984 with the production of C-network mobile phones. A year later, Kapsch was involved in the introduction of digital infrastructure in Austria and Hungary. The Kapsch - Train-phone was first used at the Austrian Federal Railways.

From 1989 to 1999 foreign subsidiaries and representative offices in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Slovenia and Croatia were established. Participation in the development and introduction of ISDN and GSM technology was made in 1989. In 1994, the train radio system from Kapsch found in European railways application. In 1995, the electronic ecopoint in Austria has been implemented. The acquisition of the traffic control systems from Bosch and Saab took place in 2000, further investments and offices in Asia, Australia, South America and South Africa were established. 2001 Schrack BusinessCom was taken.

In 2002 the structure of the Kapsch Group in three focus more divisions:

2003 was realized by, the Kapsch TrafficCom the Austrian toll system, 2004, the truck toll system was put into operation. It was founded by representative offices in China and a branch office in Croatia. With the establishment of Kapsch Telematic Services GmbH in 2005 and the establishment of branches in the Czech Republic and Hungary was accompanied. 2006 was implemented by the Kapsch TrafficCom a toll system in the Czech Republic. Kapsch TrafficCom in 2009 received the contract for the realization of the Gauteng toll project in South Africa.

Kapsch BusinessCom

The resulting from the acquisition in 2001 of Schrack BusinessCom AG Kapsch BusinessCom AG is a provider of products and services in the telecommunications and network areas and IT solutions. She is represented by subsidiaries in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Poland.

The company is, inter alia, to the regional distribution and integration partners of technology companies in the IT, network and telecommunications sector: Cisco Gold Certified Partner, Microsoft Gold Partner, Aastra Training Provider.

For the Austrian e - card system produces the Kapsch BusinessCom the card reader and the GINA box, which is situated in the ordination.

Kapsch CarrierCom

Kapsch CarrierCom AG was founded in 1982 as Austria Telecommunication (AT ) in the form of a 50 % joint venture of the Austrian telecommunications company Kapsch and Schrack. End of 1995, Kapsch acquired the 50% share of Ericsson - Schrack AT shares and became the sole owner.

In 2000, the AT was renamed as part of the restructuring of the Kapsch Group, Kapsch CarrierCom for today.

Kapsch CarrierCom providers of communications technology for operators of fixed, mobile and data networks. Here are services and applications for next - generation networks and OSS / BSS solutions as well as consulting, design, development, installation and integration to maintenance and operation of complete networks in the foreground.

Through the acquisition of railway communications division of the U.S. company Nortel, Kapsch CarrierCom 2010 58 % global market share. This acquisition brought Kapsch also a production site in China Foshan Shunde. Only one year later, however, already followed the shift back to Vienna - Liesing.

Kapsch TrafficCom

Kapsch TrafficCom AG is a provider of traffic telematics solutions. The company primarily develops electronic toll collection systems and the technical and commercial operation of such systems. In addition, the company offers traffic management solutions with a focus on road safety and traffic control, and electronic access control systems, fully automatic video detection systems and parking management. The company is headquartered in Vienna and has subsidiaries and representative offices in 23 countries.

Kapsch TrafficCom built the Austrian truck toll system, which went into operation in 2004. In 2006, the same system was first made in the Czech Republic and in 2011, parts of the Polish motorways in operation. In Poland, the rest will be taken in 2013.

Since June 2007 record good 30 % of the Kapsch TrafficCom in the Prime Market of the Vienna Stock Exchange. The remaining shares are owned by the Kapsch Group.

In fiscal year 2012/13 the company generated revenues of EUR 489 million and a profit of 15.3 million euros (EBIT).