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Owner: Fresenius
Head Office
Fresenius AG
Else-Kröner-Straße 1
61352 Bad Homburg v.d.H.
Germany
Postal Address:
Fresenius AG
D-61346 Bad Homburg v.d.H.
Tel: +49 6172 608 2637
EWC: YES
Total employees: 130,510 (2009)
Regional breakdown
Region |
Number of employees |
% employees |
Europe |
63,949 |
49% |
North America |
44,373 |
34% |
Latin America and other regions |
11,745 |
9% |
Asia-Pacific |
10,440 |
8% |
Total |
130,510 |
|
Employees by sector
Sector |
Dec 31 2009 |
Dec 31 2008 |
% change |
Fresenius Medical Care |
71,617 |
68,050 |
5 |
Fresenius Kabi |
21,872 |
20,457 |
7 |
Helios |
33,364 |
30,088 |
11 |
Fresenius Vamed |
2.849 |
2,802 |
2 |
Corporate/other |
808 |
820 |
-1 |
Total |
130,510 |
122,217 |
7 |
1.1.1 Major European subsidiaries
Company |
Owner- Ship |
Country |
Contact |
Website |
Fresenius Medical Care AG & CO KGaA Hof an der Saale
Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH Bad Homburg v.d.H.
Fresenius Hemocare Deutschland GmbH Bad Homburg v.d.H.
HELIOS Group, Berlin
|
36.77%
100%
100%
98% |
Germany |
Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH |
|
Fresenius Kabi, Italy S.p.A, Verona
Ribbon Srl, Cernusco |
100%
100% |
Italy |
Fresenius Kabi Italia S.P.A. Tel:+39 045 6649 311 Fax: 39 045 6649 404 |
|
VAMED Group, Vienna, Austria
Fresenius Kabi Group GmbH Graz |
77%
100% |
Austria |
Sterngasse 5, A-1230 Vienna Tel:43/1/60 127/0 Fax: 43/1/60 127/ 190 E-mail: office@vamed.co.at
|
|
Fresenius Hemocare Netherlands BV, Emmen,
Fresenius Kabi Nederland B.V.
|
100%
100% |
Netherlands |
Fresenius Hemocare B.V. |
|
Fresenius Kabi AB, Stockholm, Sweden |
100% |
Sweden |
Fresenius Kabi AB |
|
1.1.2 Company activities and strategy
Fresenius is a “global health care company with products and services for dialysis, the hospital and the medical care of patients at home”.[i] As a vertically integrated renal care company, Fresenius produces products and equipment for renal dialysis and runs dialysis clinics. Increasingly the company is becoming more involved in the production of infusion therapies for patients at home as well as for a wider range of conditions than renal care, e.g. cancer care.
Since 2004, Fresenius has continued to expand its healthcare management business. In 2005, Fresenius (ProServe, the healthcare management division) bought the HELIOS group, a German private hospital group, which has 55 hospitals and 26,000 employees. The Wittgensteiner Klinken Group, which Fresenius bought in 2001, has been integrated into the HELIOS group. In 2006, Fresenius bought the HUMAINE clinic group, with 6 hospitals and 2,900 employees.
Fresenius, through VAMED, its international hospital projects division, has become involved in public-private partnerships in Austria and Bosnia Herzogovina in Europe. In Austria, the projects involve clinics and a radiology centre. In Bosnia, VAMED is modernising the University Hospital at Tuzla and building a new medical centre at Banja Luka. VAMED is also contracted to deliver technical management for the Vienna General Hospital and manages the non-medical services contact for the Charite University Hospital, Berlin. It is also contracted to deliver technical management at Eppendorf University Hospital, Hamburg.
Fresenius Medical Care, the dialysis clinics division, bought the Renal Care Group, a company providing kidney dialysis, in the United States in 2006, thus expanding its presence in North America. [ii]
In 2008, Fresenius Vamed acquired four clinics in the Czech Republic from Fresenius Helios. Helios acquired Mariahilf hospital in Hamburg-Harburg, which was integrated into Mansfeld-Südharz county of Saxony-Anhalt and two hospitals in the Northeim county of Lower Saxony. The Helios consolidation is taking place in Germany and not expanding to other countries in Europe. VAMED is continuing to work on public-private partnerships worldwide.
Helios concluded the first trade union wage tariff agreement with ver-di in 2006, followed by an agreement with the Marburger Bund in 2007. In 2008 Helios concluded a followon agreement with Marburger Bund. The group wage tariff with ver-di was expanded to cover non-medical staff, especially the former Humaine acute care clinics in Bad Saarow, Dresden, and Plauen. Eventually all Helios clinic staff will be integrated into the group wage tariff agreement [iii] .
In 2008-9 Fresenius Kabi bought APP Pharmaceuticals and Dabur Pharma as well as Nestlé’s enteral nutrition business in France and Spain. It also bought Ribbon, a leading European manufacturer of antibiotic active agents.