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Organisation
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Executive board
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| The members of the Rodenstock executive board are: Oliver
Kastalio (CEO), Dr. Michael Kleer (COO) and Sven Schirmer (CFO). |
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Supervisory board
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| Peter Körfer-Schün and five further members. |
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Corporate structure
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Rodenstock took the first step towards a corporate
structure suitable for the capital market with its transformation
into a GmbH (a limited liability corporation) in 2002. In June 2003,
the first financial investor from outside the family, Permira
Beteiligungsberatung GmbH, joined the company. In March 2007, the
European holding company Bridgepoint took over the shares of
Rodenstock GmbH that had been held by Permira fonds until
then.
As an international company, Rodenstock
is using a modern instrument of corporate financing with this
structure and has thus substantially increased its competitive power. |
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Key Figures
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Over the past few years, Rodenstock has concentrated on the
core business of spectacles, which means the development,
manufacture, and marketing of ophthalmic lenses, frames, as well as
sport and sunglasses. It has broken away from marginal activities in
the areas of technical optics (precision optics) as well as
instruments and machinery for ophthalmic optics.
It invested in innovative advanced development
of ophthalmic lenses, attractive frames collections of the
Rodenstock Brand and Porsche Design, new production plants in
Germany and internationally, as well as in new sales subsidiaries in
worldwide markets.
The company, which was
founded in 1877, has a worldwide workforce of approximately 4.300
and is represented in more than 80 countries with sales subsidiaries
and distribution partners.
With expertise in
both eyeglass lenses and frames, Rodenstock is the only brand in the
eye care industry to offer wearers of glasses the complete ”glasses”
system form one source.
In financial year 2011,
Rodenstock recorded sales of € 365,9 million. |
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The System of better vision
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