geberit type public limited company industry bathroom ceramics founded 1990 as a w rtsil subsidiary 1999 listed on the helsinki stock exchange 1 headquarters helsinki finland key people fredrik cappelen chairman peter nilsson president and ceo products bathroom ceramics bathroom furniture pre wall flushing solutions taps & mixers bathtubs showers revenue 752.8 million 2012 2 operating income 73 million 2012 2 number of employees 7 004 2012 2 subsidiaries allia ido if keramag kolo koralle porsgrund pozzi ginori selles sphinx twyford bathrooms varicor website www.sanitec.com sanitec was a large european producer of bathroom ceramics generating an annual revenue of 753 million 2012 . it was based in helsinki owned by the swedish private equity firm eqt has been owning 77.5 % of sanitec since 2009 100 % before and owned several european ceramics brands with 18 production plants . contents 1 history 2 brands year of becoming acquired by sanitec 1 4 3 references 4 external links history edit sanitec was established as a subsidiary of w rtsil in 1990 . in 1999 sanitec was listed on the helsinki stock exchange . it was delisted on 1 november 2001 after being acquired by pool acquisition helsinki oy a company sanitec merged with on 31 march 2002 . in the beginning of 2005 the merged company was completely acquired by eqt . 1 in february 2015 sanitec was acquired by the swiss firm geberit for a fee of 1.4 billion . 3 brands year of becoming acquired by sanitec 1 4 edit allia france 1991 ido finland if sweden 1981 keramag germany 1991 kolo poland 1993 koralle germany porsgrund norway 1985 pozzi ginori italy 1993 selles france sphinx netherlands 1999 twyford bathrooms u.k. 2001 varicor germany 1998 bidet by kolo a sanitec subsidiary references edit a b c sanitec milestones a b c preliminary results 2012 geberit says has acquired 99.27 pct of sanitec shares . reuters 3 february 2015 sanitec brands external links edit sanitec homepage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sanitec & oldid 743264671 categories companies based in helsinkicompanies of finlandbathroom fixture companiesfinnish brandsw rtsil navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschnederlandssuomi edit links this page was last modified on 8 october 2016 at 21 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view