Company Profile

With a market share of over 45 percent for sheetfed printing Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) is the world's leading solution provider for commercial and industrial customers in the print media industry.

Headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, the Group's solutions focus on the whole value-added chain for popular format classes in the sheetfed offset and flexographic printing sectors. This includes prepress, postpress and their associated workflow components, training and education program of the Print Media Academy, service, spare parts, consumables and sale of used equipment.

The company also supports its customers' investment plans with financing concepts. Heidelberg's business is based around the markets of the key OECD industrial regions, but it is also increasingly investing in growth markets such as Asia and Eastern Europe. 14 international development and production sites and around 250 sales branches provide support to its customers worldwide.

Heidelberg generates 85 percent of its sales through its own sales companies and around 87 percent of its sales abroad. In fiscal year 2003/2004, Heidelberg achieved sales of Euro 3.114 billion referring to the divisions Press, Postpress and Financial Services. As of June 30, 2004, the Group employed 21,200 staff worldwide.