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| Company type | Public (AG) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Furniture |
| Founded | 1871 |
| Headquarters | Waldshut, Germany Production locations: Dogern (D); Geseke (D) |
Key people | Albert Stoll, founder Dr.-Ing. Bernhard E. Kallup, chairman Carl-Heinz Osten, finance |
| Products | Office furniture, office seating, conference furniture, break-out furniture |
| Revenue | € 193.8 million (2007) |
Number of employees | 1102 |
| Website | www.sedus.com |
Sedus Stoll AG is a German company specialising in the manufacture and sale of office furniture. Currently located in Waldshut-Tiengen, at the edge of the Black Forest the Sedus Stoll head office is due to relocate to the neighbouring town of Dogern by 2011.
The company has production plants in both Dogern and Geseke plus eight European subsidiaries in France (Paris), Italy (Lurate-Caccivio), Spain (Madrid), Austria (Vienna), Great Britain (London), the Netherlands (Capelle aan den Ijssel), Belgium (Wetteren) and Switzerland (Rickenbach), making Sedus one of Europe’s major office furniture manufacturers. A worldwide distribution network covering more than 40 countries is maintained through partner companies on all five continents.
History[edit]
Sedus Stoll was established 130 years ago by Albert Stoll, and was then continued by his descendants. The last male member of the family, Christoph Stoll, transferred ownership to Stoll VITA, a non profit-making foundation for the promotion of healthy diet and environmental protection. In 1995, Sedus was converted into a public limited company (Aktiengesellschaft), and in the following years, the company expanded into an all-round supplier. This included the acquisition in 1999 of a majority shareholding in the office furniture manufacturer Klöber GmbH (specialising in office seating) based in Überlingen. Gesika Büromöbelwerk GmbH (specialising in break-out furniture), located in the town of Geseke, was purchased in 2002 and renamed Sedus Systems GmbH in 2008, following a merger of the Sedus and Gesika brands. In 2007, Sedus founded Transform Consult GmbH, a building consultancy firm based in Munich, and acquired a majority stake in the office furniture retailer Planbüro Group, located in the North Rhine-Westphalia region.
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Categories: furniture manufacturers
Categories: Manufacturing companies of Germany