seiki co. dmg mori aktiengesellschaft type aktiengesellschaft traded as fwb gil industry manufacturing founded october 1 1870 1870 10 01 headquarters bielefeld germany key people r diger kapitza executive board chairman raimund klinkner supervisory board chairman products machine tools revenue 2.229 billion 2014 1 number of employees 7 236 december 31 2014 1 website http www.dmgmori.com dmg mori aktiengesellschaft name written in capital letters ; until september 2013 gildemeister ag until june 2015 dmg mori seiki aktiengesellschaft is one of germany s largest manufacturers of cutting machine tools and a leading global manufacturer of cnc controlled lathes and milling machines . 2 products include innovative high tech machines industrial services and software and energy solutions . the mdax technology group has 21 production sites worldwide and 161 international sales and service sites . the company is based in bielefeld . contents 1 history 1.1 cooperation with mori seiki 2 references 3 external links history edit milling machine on 1 october 1870 locksmith friedrich gildemeister founded the werkzeugmaschinenfabrik machine tool plant gildemeister & comp back in the pioneer days in germany . in the following decades the plant near the cologne minden train station in bielefeld was expanded to include several production facilities . for over 100 years until 1976 the company was based where the city hall is now situated . gildemeisterstra e 60 in bielefeld has since become the group s headquarters . today 7 236 employees and 261 trainees work for the group worldwide . 3 in 1890 the company had around 100 employees among them a wages clerk and three technicians to assemble the machines . in 1899 the former partnership was changed to a public limited company with capital assets of 1 million goldmarks . gildemeister went public in 1950 and at the end of 1969 the company became a public company with a broad spectrum of shareholders . in 12994 gildmeister ag acquired deckel maho ag and was renamed deckel maho gildmeister ag . in 2002 gildemeister received approval from the german stock exchange for admission to the prime standard . following restructuring of the german stock index in march 2003 the gildemeister share was listed on the sdax . at the end of december 2007 gildemeister ag was included in the mdax stock index . 4 in 2008 the public prosecutor s office initiated proceedings against the gildemeister ag ceo r diger kapitza . the charges brought against him included embezzlement fraud corruption and tax evasion . 5 in late summer the public prosecutor s office and the financial market authority bafin stopped their unsuccessful investigations into insider trading . 6 however proceedings continued in other areas . 7 investigations in austria were also finally stopped in march 2013 and kapitza was cleared of suspicion of embezzlement and fraud . 8 cooperation with mori seiki edit in march 2009 the company signed a cooperation agreement with the japanese company mori seiki . this agreement allowed the company to further consolidate its sales and service network in global key markets . the cooperation in markets in taiwan thailand indonesia and turkey 9 was followed by the usa and india . 10 since september 2011 the two companies have continued to further expand their joint market presence in europe . 11 in order to strengthen their successful global cooperation gildemeister and mori seiki signed a cooperation agreement and decided to align their company names . on 1 october 2013 gildemeister aktiengesellschaft became dmg mori seiki aktiengesellschaft . mori seiki changed its name to dmg mori seiki company limited . on the global market both companies used the dmg mori brand . on 21 january 2015 the dmg mori seiki aktiengesellschaft signed another cooperation agreement with dmg mori seiki co. ltd. this agreement specified objectives for strategic growth and sought to consolidate the successful cooperation between the companies . on 8 june 2015 dmg mori seiki aktiengesellschaft became dmg mori aktiengesellschaft and dmg mori seiki company limited changed its name to dmg mori company limited as a further confirmation of the merger . both companies are main shareholders dmg mori ag gildemeister 12 holds 9.6 per cent of dmg mori co. ltd. and dmg mori co. ltd. holds 52.54 per cent status 7 may 2015 of dmg mori ag . 13 references edit a b gildemeister ag . gesch ftsbericht 2014 pdf ; 1 6 mb . retrieved 2015 06 21 . machine tool scoreboard ranking der weltweit umsatzst rksten wzm produzenten gildemeister ag . zwischenbericht 1 . halbjahr 2013 pdf . retrieved 2013 07 25 . gildemeister ag 2007 12 10 . gildemeister steigt in den mdax auf . retrieved 2010 05 31 . handelsblatt 2008 01 16 . razzia bei gildemeister . retrieved 2013 12 09 . rp online 2008 07 14 . insiderhandel bei gildemeister bafin stellt ermittlungen ein . retrieved 2010 05 31 . focus 2009 08 16 . neue ermittlungen gegen gildemeister manager . retrieved 2010 05 31 . nw 2013 02 28 . gildemeister chef kapitza auch in sterreich entlastet . retrieved 2013 02 28 . gildemeister ag 2009 07 01 . gildemeister und mori seiki starten gemeinsamen vertrieb . retrieved 2012 03 23 . gildemeister ag 2010 03 11 . gildemeister und mori seiki gemeinsam in usa und indien . retrieved 2012 03 23 . gildemeister ag 2011 07 26 . gildemeister und mori seiki b ndeln aktivit ten in europa . retrieved 2010 03 23 . gildemeister ag 2011 08 02 . gildemeister stockt anteil an mori seiki auf . retrieved 2012 03 23 . radio bielefeld 2015 04 02 . mori seiki h lt jetzt ber 50 prozent . retrieved 2015 04 02 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to dmg mori seiki ag . official website v t e mdax companies of germany aareal bank airbus group aurubis axel springer bilfinger brenntag cts eventim deutsche euroshop deutsche pfandbriefbank deutsche wohnen d rr elringklinger evonik industries fielmann fraport fuchs petrolub gea group gerresheimer dmg mori seiki ag hannover re hella hochtief hugo boss jungheinrich kabel deutschland kion group kl ckner krones kuka lanxess leg immobilien leoni man metro mtu aero engines norma group osram prosiebensat .1 media rheinmetall rh n klinikum rtl group salzgitter s dzucker symrise stada tag talanx wacker chemie wincor nixdorf zalando retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title dmg mori aktiengesellschaft & oldid 737720042 categories companies based in north rhine westphaliaengineering companies of germanygerman brandsmachine tool buildershidden categories commons category with local link same as on wikidataofficial website different in wikidata and wikipedia 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 in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 4 september 2016 at 16 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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