06-08-15
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HERMA headquarters in Filderstadt: Large area purchase opens up perspectives
• HERMA has acquired an 80,000 square meter area in Filderstadt that directly borders the company headquarters.
• “This gives us the unique opportunity to develop HERMA here in the long run, and to safeguard jobs.”
HERMA has opened a new chapter in its company history which spans nearly 110 years. It concerns the development of the company’s largest site: the self-adhesive technology specialist has acquired a more than 80,000 square meter area in Filderstadt that directly borders its headquarters. “This acquisition gives us the unique opportunity to keep developing HERMA at its Filderstadt location, thereby ensuring long-term growth in Germany as well as creating and safeguarding jobs”, say HERMA managing directors Sven Schneller and Dr. Thomas Baumgärtner. After ten years of strong growth in the Self-adhesive materials, Labels, and Labelling Machines divisions, the expansion options at HERMA’s current premises, which measure approximately 50,000 square meters, are almost exhausted. “It is a major stroke of luck for HERMA that this expansion area in already densely developed Filderstadt went up for sale. We seized this opportunity in great agreement with our shareholders and advisory board”, say the managing directors. HERMA is now planning a thorough analysis of the options offered by the existing buildings – which are largely rented – and the area as a whole.
Approval from head mayor
Filderstadt’s current mayor, Gabriele Dönig-Poppensieker, also expressed her delight at this development: “I am very proud that HERMA – a world-renowned company – is committed to the business location Filderstadt. It is great that the company headquarters will be further developed and extended. I wish the company and its employees every success in the future.”
The area was sold by German entrepreneur Werner Gutperle and his partners, René Gutperle, Peter Nagel, and Johann Ertl, who had bought the property in 2004 and then developed it. “While negotiating the business deal, HERMA was a tough but fair partner”, says Werner Gutperle. “I think that both sides can be satisfied with the results.” Both parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. HERMA has been producing in Filderstadt since 1961. In 2008, the company which used to be based in Stuttgart moved its headquarters there. Out of the total of currently 900 HERMA employees worldwide, approximately 650 work in Filderstadt.
• “This gives us the unique opportunity to develop HERMA here in the long run, and to safeguard jobs.”
HERMA has opened a new chapter in its company history which spans nearly 110 years. It concerns the development of the company’s largest site: the self-adhesive technology specialist has acquired a more than 80,000 square meter area in Filderstadt that directly borders its headquarters. “This acquisition gives us the unique opportunity to keep developing HERMA at its Filderstadt location, thereby ensuring long-term growth in Germany as well as creating and safeguarding jobs”, say HERMA managing directors Sven Schneller and Dr. Thomas Baumgärtner. After ten years of strong growth in the Self-adhesive materials, Labels, and Labelling Machines divisions, the expansion options at HERMA’s current premises, which measure approximately 50,000 square meters, are almost exhausted. “It is a major stroke of luck for HERMA that this expansion area in already densely developed Filderstadt went up for sale. We seized this opportunity in great agreement with our shareholders and advisory board”, say the managing directors. HERMA is now planning a thorough analysis of the options offered by the existing buildings – which are largely rented – and the area as a whole.
Approval from head mayor
Filderstadt’s current mayor, Gabriele Dönig-Poppensieker, also expressed her delight at this development: “I am very proud that HERMA – a world-renowned company – is committed to the business location Filderstadt. It is great that the company headquarters will be further developed and extended. I wish the company and its employees every success in the future.”
The area was sold by German entrepreneur Werner Gutperle and his partners, René Gutperle, Peter Nagel, and Johann Ertl, who had bought the property in 2004 and then developed it. “While negotiating the business deal, HERMA was a tough but fair partner”, says Werner Gutperle. “I think that both sides can be satisfied with the results.” Both parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. HERMA has been producing in Filderstadt since 1961. In 2008, the company which used to be based in Stuttgart moved its headquarters there. Out of the total of currently 900 HERMA employees worldwide, approximately 650 work in Filderstadt.