Messer has been awarded the Axia Award
Deloitte and WirtschaftsWoche present award to family business for succession planning
(PresseBox) - Industrial gases manufacturer Messer has been awarded the Axia Award 2016 in the ?Best family successor? category. ?Preserving and continuing tradition? was the motto of this year?s awards ceremony. Stefan Messer accepted the sustainable management award, which was jointly presented by Deloitte and the WirtschaftsWoche business magazine.
The Messer Group has been a producer and supplier of industrial gases for over 100 years, primarily in Europe and China. The company has come through turbulent times since its founding in 1898. Having averted bankruptcy in 1999, the founder?s grandson, Stefan Messer, restored the gas manufacturer to its former size and transferred ownership back to the family. ?I believed in the business, so I decided that the family would keep a stake in it,? says Stefan Messer. This involved Messer taking a lot of risks: the sale of the Group?s most important national entities ? USA, UK and Germany ? allowed him to buy out investors who had acquired former shareholder Hoechst?s stake in 2001. He has been presented with the award of ?Best family successor? for his tireless efforts in the face of much internal and external resistance.
?Both economically and socially, Germany needs successful business succession in the SME sector. This is the only way to maintain and secure investment, innovation and jobs across generations and throughout the country. The nationwide Axia Award is presented for this with good reason,? Holger Lösch, member of the executive board of the BDI, Germany?s federal industry association, explains.
The Messer Group, founded in 1898, is the largest privately managed specialist in industrial, medical and specialty gases. Under the brand ?Messer ? Gases for Life?, the company is active in over 30 countries in Europe and Asia, as well as in Peru and Algeria, with a total of more than 60 operating companies. The international activities are controlled from the Frankfurt am Main area, whilst the technical centralised functions of logistics, engineering, production and application technology are managed from Krefeld. Stefan Messer, CEO and owner of the Messer Group, works together with the 5,354 employees in accordance with defined principles. These include a focus on customers and employees, responsible behaviour, corporate responsibility, excellence as well as trust and respect. In 2015 the industrial gases specialist generated consolidated sales of ?1.166 billion.
http://www.messergroup.com
http://www.gasesforlife.de
The Messer Group, founded in 1898, is the largest privately managed specialist in industrial, medical and specialty gases. Under the brand ?Messer ? Gases for Life?, the company is active in over 30 countries in Europe and Asia, as well as in Peru and Algeria, with a total of more than 60 operating companies. The international activities are controlled from the Frankfurt am Main area, whilst the technical centralised functions of logistics, engineering, production and application technology are managed from Krefeld. Stefan Messer, CEO and owner of the Messer Group, works together with the 5,354 employees in accordance with defined principles. These include a focus on customers and employees, responsible behaviour, corporate responsibility, excellence as well as trust and respect. In 2015 the industrial gases specialist generated consolidated sales of ?1.166 billion.
http://www.messergroup.com
http://www.gasesforlife.de
Datum: 02.12.2016 - 15:36 Uhr
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