Ammann Group Holding AG is a

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company specialised on machines for the

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and

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. As of 2012, the company employs a workforce of about 3,400. It is incorporated in Bern, but its offices are located in

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(

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). The company is a family business founded in 1869 by Jakob Ammann. Ammann developed an internal-combustion powered

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in 1911. From 1931, the company also acted as representative of Caterpillar Inc. in Switzerland. In the 1980s, Ammann Group expanded to Germany and France (joint-venture with

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1989), and currently has production facilities in eight locations,

in Switzerland, Alfeld (Leine) and

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in Germany,

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in Italy,

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in the Czech Republic,

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in China, Gravatai in Brazil and Ahmedabad in India. From 1990 until his election to the

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in 2010, the company chairman was Johann Schneider-Ammann. Since the appointment as CEO of Hans-Christian Schneider, the son of Johann Schneider-Ammann, the company has been administered in the owner family's sixth generation.Dominic Ramel
Hans-Christian Schneider: «Diese Lösung kann und wird Erfolg haben»
Berner Zeitung, 31 December 2012

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