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BWT (company)
BWT, registered name BWT Aktiengesellschaft, AG, is an Austrian manufacturing company of water treatment systems with its headquarters in Mondsee (town), Mondsee. Production sites and subsidiaries The company has four main production sites at Mondsee (Austria), Schriesheim (Germany), Paris (France), and Aesch, Basel-Landschaft, Aesch (Switzerland), as well as numerous subsidiaries and affiliated companies, and a global distribution network. History BWT was founded as Benckiser Wassertechnik in 1823 by Johann Benckiser, Johann Adam Benckiser in Germany. Following several Mergers and acquisitions, acquisitions and mergers, the company was purchased in 1990 by Andreas Weißenbacher in a management buyout. The company was floated on the Wiener Börse, Vienna Stock Exchange in 1992. The WAB Group is the principal shareholder of BWT, with around 20% of share (finance), shares owned by diverse shareholders and roughly 6% owned by the company (as of February 2014). Products BWT p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aktiengesellschaft
(; abbreviated AG, ) is a German word for a corporation limited by Share (finance), share ownership (i.e. one which is owned by its shareholders) whose shares may be traded on a stock market. The term is used in Germany, Austria, Switzerland (where it is equivalent to a ''S.A. (corporation), société anonyme'' or a ''società per azioni''), and South Tyrol for companies incorporated there. It is also used in Luxembourg (as lb, Aktiëgesellschaft, label=none, ), although the equivalent French language term ''S.A. (corporation), société anonyme'' is more common. In the United Kingdom, the equivalent term is public limited company, "PLC" and in the United States while the terms Incorporation (business), "incorporated" or "corporation" are typically used, technically the more precise equivalent term is "joint-stock company" (though note for the British term only a minority of public limited companies have their shares listed on stock exchanges). Meaning of the word The German w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
