Bauerfeind
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• Bauerfeind AG is a German health care equipment company, one of the largest manufacturers of orthopaedic stockings and inserts in the world
• Its headquarters are in Zeulenroda-Triebes, Thuringia
• It is a family company, not listed on any stock exchange
• The company was founded in Zeulenroda in 1929 by Bruno Bauerfeind as a manufacturer of medical rubber stockings
• In 1949 his son, Rudolf Bauerfeind, left Zeulenroda because of the policy of nationalisation in East Germany and rebuilt the company in western Germany, first in Darmstadt-Eberstadt and then in Kempen
• Immediately after German reunification, in 1991, Hans B
• Bauerfeind, grandson of the founder and chairman of the management board since 1976, returned Bauerfeind GmbH, as it then was, to Zeulenroda, buying a compression bandage manufacturer there and investing more than 100 million euros in a new production facility, a research centre and a new 57-metre headquarters building, the tallest new building constructed in Thuringia since reunification
• The family-owned company became an Aktiengesellschaft in 2002
• Hans Bauerfeind has built up the company to an international group
• There are currently approximately 2,000 employees, 800 of them in Zeulenroda, and subsidiaries in a number of countries, including Austria, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain and the United States