Maxdata is the name of two German

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companies. The original Maxdata was founded in 1987 by Holger Lampatz in

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, as the Maxdata Computer GmbH. It began selling personal computers in 1990. Maxdata used its own name for B2B products while selling notebooks and displays for the customer market under the Belinea brand. In 1997, Maxdata was majority-owned by , itself a fully-owned subsidiary of the

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. In 2003, the company was restructured as the Maxdata AG and listed in the Prime Standard. Maxdata filed

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proceedings at the Local Court in

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on Wednesday, 25 June 2008. It had 1000 employees at the time of closure. The Belinea brand was sold to Brunen IT Group while the Maxdata name was sold to S&T. The Maxdata Computer AG, a fully-owned Swiss subsidiary of the Maxdata AG, was taken over by Brunen IT as Belinea AG before being sold to S&T and re-named Maxdata (Schweiz) AG. In 2016, S&T stopped the production of computers and notebooks. S&T founded a new Maxdata Deutschland GmbH in 2014 in

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as a fully-owned subsidiary but in 2016 it was renamed to S&T Deutschland GmbH.

Products

Its product lines included servers, desktop computers, notebooks and the Belinea series of monitors.

References

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