GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft | Parent company of GEA Pharma Systems

GEA wins Best Innovator Award

Düsseldorf, June 10, 2011 – At yesterday evening’s “Best Innovators 2010/11” awards at the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in Berlin, GEA Group was honored as the mechanical engineering company with the most successful and sustainable innovation management in Germany.

“Being named industry winner of the prestigious ‘Best Innovator’ award underscores our goal to be at the forefront in shaping technological advances and to offer our customers the latest solutions at all times. This is backed by the cross-segment integration of all aspects of our expertise. Diversity is one of our strengths,” said Jürg Oleas, Chairman of GEA Group’s Executive Board.

“GEA Group clearly and explicitly defined its growth objectives using the topic of innovation. The intelligent solution of promoting decentralized entrepreneurship in combination with company-wide innovation portfolio management was especially interesting,” noted Dr. Kai Engel, partner at management consultants A.T. Kearney and contest initiator, explaining the jury’s decision.

The jury assessed exemplary concepts in development as well as organization and processes in innovation management for the seventh time in this contest, held under the patronage of the Federal Minister of Economics and Technology together with German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche and management consultants A.T. Kearney. 

GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft is one of the largest system providers for food and energy processes with about EUR 4.4 billion revenue in 2010.

As an internationally operating technology group, the company focuses on process technology and components for demanding production processes in various end markets. The group generates about 70 percent of its revenue from the long-term growing food and energy industries.

The company's workforce comprised over 23,000 employees worldwide as of March 31, 2011. GEA Group is a market and technology leader in its business areas.

The company is listed in the MDAX index (G1A, WKN 660200). In addition GEA Group has a sponsored level I ADR program in the USA.

Factsheet GEA Group

The GEA Group: German MDAX company – focused and globally successful

• revenue about EUR 4.4 billion in 2010
• over 23,000 employees worldwide
• about 70 percent of revenue from the long-term growing food and energy industries

Vision

• GEA provides the world with innovative solutions for smartfood processing and for a more efficient use of energy resources.
• GEA is a global engineering group recognized for its excellent technologies, its dedication to provide best solutions to its customers, and its management principles.

Values

• Excellence: At GEA, we stand for excellence in everything we do.
• Passion: At GEA, we work with passion without obsession.
• Integrity: At GEA, we walk our talk.
• Responsibility: At GEA, we feel responsible for our actions.
• GEA-versity: At GEA, we cross borders.

Markets

Food	Dairy sector	Beverages
Energy .	Breweries .	Pharmaceuticals & Cosmetics
Chemicals	Environment	Marine

Corporate strategy

• Active in markets with fundamental growth-drivers: continuous global population growth, rising incomes in emerging economies, growing demand for higher quality foodstuffs, beverages, and pharmaceutical products, rising demand for energy
• Close to the market, agile, and decentralized
• Clear separation of operational and strategic levels
• Efficient structures

GEA Group structure:

With effect from January 1, 2010, the businesses of the GEA Group were grouped into five segments without altering the overall portfolio of the group. Effective March 24, 2011, GEA Group successfully concluded the takeover of Convenience Food Systems (CFS), who are headquartered at Bakel, Netherlands.

With the acquisition of CFS, GEA has added to its group one of the most multi-faceted suppliers of secondary food processing and packaging machinery (meat, fish, cheese). A new, 6th, GEA segment under the name GEA Convenience-Food Technologies is created following the expansion of the product portfolio. The structure provides a clear alignment of technologies and applications within the group.

 

Acquisitions 2010

• Skiold Mullerup, Denmark
  Automaticcow feeding, manure processing and cow cubicles
• Breconcherry, United Kingdom
  Tank washing equipment and cleaning in place (CIP) systems
• ACC Air Pullution Control Division, India
  Technology for waste gas dust extraction
• Farmers Industries, New Zealand
  Consumables in the milking industry
• BSGT Beijing, China
  Freeze drying technology for the pharmaceutical industry
  
• Mashimpeks, Russia
  Heat exchangers
• Bock Kältemaschinen*, Germany
  Open and semihermetic piston compressors
• CFS*, The Netherlands
  Process technology for the processing and packaging
  of protein foods

* Transaction remains subject to approval by the antitrust authorities.

History
1881	Founding of Metallgesellschaft AG (MG) as a metals trading company
1920	Founding of Gesellschaft für Entstaubungsanlagen (GEA)
1989	GEA floats on the stockmarket
1992	MG acquires Dynamit Nobel AG
1999	MG acquires GEA AG
2000	Metallgesellschaft AG becomes mg technologies ag
2003	Strategic reorientation of the Group towards specialist mechanical engineering
2005	Renaming of mg technologies ag as GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft
2007	Sale of the Plant Engineering business
2010	New group structure, centralization of all heat exchanger activities
2011	Integration of Convenience Food Systems (CFS) as 6th segment “GEA Convenience-Food Technologies”

The GEA share

GEA Pharma Systems

GEA Pharma Systems has built a reputation for matching inspiration with technology when it comes to containment in solid dose processing. But it’s the knowledge and experience to bring that technology together in a creative way to meet customers’ needs that really matters.

where inspiration meets technology
GEA Pharma Systems supplies advanced technologies for the preparation of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and process equipment for the production of oral and parenteral dosage forms.

GEA Pharma Systems strives for Price / Performance Leadership providing customers with highly cost-effective, integrated systems for the pharmaceutical industry. GEA Pharma Systems is dedicated to innovation and thereby providing durable quality through its well-established brands: Aeromatic-Fielder™ and Collette™ - batch and continuous granulation, drying, pelletizing and coating; Buck® - contained materials handling; Courtoy™ - tablet compression; Lyophil™ - pharmaceutical freeze drying and Diessel™ - liquid processing. 

GEA Pharma Systems’ activities include partnering with customers to develop new products and enhance clinical effectiveness; the supply of R&D-scale and stand-alone production equipment; and the installation of complete integrated production lines.

GEA Pharma Systems is part of the business segment GEA Process Engineering
GEA Process Engineering is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, and had a turnover exceeding EUR 1,4 billion in 2010. With just under 4,600 employees, the business is represented by 50 companies in more than 40 countries across the world.

Our Core Business
GEA Process Engineering specializes in the design and development of process solutions for the dairy, brewery, food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. The company’s core technology is equipment for industrial drying with spray and fluid-bed processing. All our technology meets high standards for performance and abides by safety regulations. We focus on six areas:

• Liquid processing
• Concentration
• Drying
• Powder processing and handling
• Emission control
• Solid dosage forms & sterile products
• Aseptic packaging

Market Position
GEA Process Engineering is widely recognized as a market leader in our field of business. We are renowned for our experience, expertise and innovation and, invigorated by the dedication of our employees. We design, test and develop our core technology to provide the widest range of solutions and after-sales service in the market.

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