Fresenius Profile

Company: 
Fresenius
Author: 
Jane Lethbridge
Date published: 
2010

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

www.fresenius.de

 

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
Else-Kröner-Strasse 1
61352 Bad Homburg Tel: +49 (0)6172 686 0 Fax +49 (0)6172 686 2628 E-mail: communication@fresenius.kabi.com

www.fresenius-kabi.de

 

Fresenius Kabi, Italy S.p.A, Verona

 

 

 

Ribbon Srl, Cernusco

100%

 

 

 

 

100%

Italy

Fresenius Kabi Italia S.P.A.
Via Camagre, 41
37063 Isola della Scala – Verona

Tel:+39 045 6649 311 Fax: 39 045 6649 404

www.fresenius-kabi.de

 

 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

 

www.vamed.com

 

Fresenius Hemocare  Netherlands  BV, Emmen,

 

Fresenius Kabi Nederland B.V.
's-Hertogenbosch

 

100%

 

 

 

100%

Netherlands

Fresenius Hemocare B.V.
Runde ZZ 41
7881 HM Emmer-Compascuum Tel : +31 591 355 700 Fax +31 591 355 555 E-mail@ customer_services@npbi.nl

www.npbi.nl

 

Fresenius Kabi AB, Stockholm, Sweden

100%

Sweden

Fresenius Kabi AB
Rapsgatan 7,
SE-751 74 Uppsala Tel:+46 18 64 4000 Fax: +46 18 64 490 E-mail: infor-sweden@fresenius.kabi.com

www.fresenius-kabi.com

 

 

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.


[i] www.fresenius.de

[ii] Fresenius Annual report 2006:p.18

[iii] Fresenius Annual Report 2009