Leitz Camera

	Leitz Camera Leitz may refer to several German companies: Esselte Leitz GmbH & Co KG, founded by Louis Leitz in 1896, a German manufacturer of office products Louis Leitz (1846–1918), German inventor and founder of Esselte Leitz GmbH & Co KG Ernst Leitz GmbH, German firm now divided into: Leica Camera, manufacturer of cameras Leica Geosystems, manufacturer of geodetic equipment Leica Microsystems, manufacturer of microscopes and owner of the Leica brand Leica Biosystems Leica Biosystems, founded 1872 as Precision Engineering, is a medical devices company that develops and supplies clinical diagnostics to the pathology market. It is also a research, instrument, and medical device company as well as a division of ... , a cancer diagnostics company {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Esselte Leitz GmbH & Co KG The Esselte Leitz GmbH & Co KG, also Leitz, is a German manufacturer of office products. The company, which is headquartered in Stuttgart, is owned by Esselte since 1998, who in turn were acquired by ACCO Brands in 2017. Today the brand Leitz is used by Esselte mainly for filing and workspace products. Leitz was founded by Louis Leitz. In 1998, the company was acquired by the Esselte Group. At the time of the sale, the company had 2,500 employees and sales of 280 million euros. A large number of employees were laid off at the time. In 2017, the ACCO Group acquired the Esselte Group from the private equity company J.W. Childs, which also includes the Leitz company, among others. As part of this, the name of the company "Esselte Leitz GmbH & Co KG" was changed to "LEITZ ACCO Brands GmbH & Co KG". At the time of the sale, Leitz had 455 employees with sales of 205.8 million euros. See also * Leitz, unrelated German manufacturing firm founded by Albert Leitz in 1876 (www.leitz.org) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Louis Leitz Louis Leitz (2 May 1846 – 18 May 1918) was a German inventor and founder of Esselte Leitz GmbH & Co KG, trained as a woodturner and also worked as a mechanic. Biography Leitz was born in Ingersheim, Kingdom of Württemberg, in 1846. In 1896, he made some important changes to the development of ring binders, in Stuttgart-Feuerbach. Leitz created the lever arch file, a standing binder with a riveted lever arch mechanism (the lever can be easily opened, closed and locked) and space-saving slots into the cover, thereby introducing the modern ring binder. In 1911, he introduced the "finger hole" on the side of the binder to aid removal from crowded shelves. Leitz died in Stuttgart. The Louis Leitz Foundation was founded in his memory on 30 November 2001. The foundation's budget is 120,000 euro The euro (currency symbol, symbol: euro sign, €; ISO 4217, currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the Member state of the European Union, member states of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Ernst Leitz GmbH Ernst Leitz GmbH was a German corporation based in Wetzlar, a German centre for optics as well as an important location for the precision engineering industry. History Carl Kellner (optician), Carl Kellner, mechanic and self-taught mathematician, published his treatise (''The orthoscopic ocular, a newly invented achromatic lens combination'') in 1849, describing a new optical formula he had developed. The ocular was capable of rendering an image with the correct perspective, free of the distortions typical of other microscopes at that time. Following his early death on 13 May 1855, his widow continued the business he had left behind, the (optical institute). The fine mechanic Ernst Leitz I (1843–1920) from Baden arrived at Wetzlar in 1864 and entered service at the Optisches Institut. He was trained as an instrument maker for physical and chemical apparatus and had several years' experience making watches in Switzerland. Initially, Leitz was a part shareholder of the busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Leica Geosystems Leica Geosystems (formerly known as Wild Heerbrugg or just Wild) based in eastern Switzerland produces products and systems for surveying and geographical measurement ( geomatics). Its products employ a variety of technologies including GPS satellite navigation and laser rangefinders to enable users to model existing structures, terrains in computer based systems to high accuracies, often under 1 cm. History The brand Leica, better known for Leica Cameras, was formed on 2 April 1990 after the merger of several companies. In 2005, the company was acquired by Hexagon AB. Leica was listed on the Swiss stock exchange until the 7 August 2006 which saw the cancellation of all publicly held registered shares in Leica Geosystems Holdings Ltd and delisting of all listed registered shares of a par value of CHF 50. Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging is a Strategic Member in the Open Geospatial Consortium since 2008. Strategic Membership is the highest level of membership in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Leica Microsystems Leica Microsystems GmbH is a German microscope manufacturing company. It is a manufacturer of optical microscopes, equipment for the preparation of microscopic specimens and related products. There are ten plants in eight countries with distribution partners in over 100 countries. Leica Microsystems emerged in 1997 out of a 1990 merger between Wild-Leitz, headquartered in Heerbrugg Switzerland, and Cambridge Instruments of Cambridge England. The merger of those two umbrella companies created an alliance of the following 8 individual manufacturers of scientific instruments. American Optical Scientific Products, Carl Reichert Optische Werke AG, R.Jung, Bausch and Lomb Optical Scientific Products Division, Cambridge Instruments, E.Leitz Wetzlar, Kern & Co., and Wild Heerbrugg AG, bringing much-needed modernization and a broader degree of expertise to the newly created entity called Leica Holding B.V. group. In 1997 the name was changed to Leica Microsystems and is a wholly-owned e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]