50 years of edding - press releases
Factsheet
net sales, facts and figures
As well as edding – the premium brand for the “Writing and Marking” business field – the company also sells the Group’s Legamaster brand worldwide. Offering highly practical products for the “Visual Communication” business field, Legamaster has also successfully established itself in the market. As well as whiteboards and flipcharts the Legamaster range includes, increasingly, interactive media which capture written information in real time and process it for use on the computer.
| Group net sales*: | EUR 113.9 million |
| Result before taxes: | EUR 7.3 million |
| Sales by division | |
| Writing and Marking: | |
| Germany | EUR 33.3 million (+ 2.5 %) |
| Other European countries | EUR 37.9 million (+ 3.6 %) |
| Non-European countries | EUR 6.0 million (- 1.6 %) |
| Visual Communication: | |
| Germany | EUR 12.2 million (+ 15.1 %) |
| Other European countries | EUR 16.9 million (+ 3.7 %) |
| Non-European countries | EUR 1.3 million (- 7.1 %) |
| Employees: | 594 |
| Founding: | 1960 by Carl-Wilhelm Edding and Volker D. Ledermann in Hamburg-Barmbek |
| Flotation: | 1986 |
| Number of shares: | 473,219 no-par value preference shares |
| Listing: | DE0005647937 (ISIN) 564793 (WKN) |
| Stock exchanges: | Frankfurt, London, Hamburg, Xetra |
| Locations: | |
| HQ and central store | Ahrensburg, near Hamburg |
| Produktion, edding | Germany, Argentina, Mexico |
| Produktion, Legamaster | Czech Republic |
| Distribution, edding | Wunstorf (D) |
| Distribution, Legamaster | Lochem (NL) |
* Figures for the 2008 financial year, Changes in % over the previous year
