GESCO AG: Specialist for succession issues
As a longterm investor, GESCO acquires successfull industrial SMEs. Since our founding in 1989, we have built up a strong group of „hidden champions“, market and technology leaders. GESCO went public on 24 March 1998. GESCO's shares are listed in the Prime Standard.
Our approach ist longterm-oriented and sustainable: We continue proven business models and develop them further. Our central task is to utilise growth potential and to ensure the future of the Group in the long term. By doing so, we create added value for shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers and business partners of all kind.
Our strategy: SME-based, entrepreneurial, long-term
They are known as pearls of the Mittelstand, or hidden champions – well-managed, successfully positioned companies. They score points with their typical SME strengths: intimacy with the market, customer orientation, highly innovative, and also efficient decision-making. GESCO SE identifies these pearls and acquires them, giving them a long-term home within the Group.
The GESCO management team: SME-based, entrepreneurial, experienced
Entrepreneurial thinking guides the actions of the Executive Board, as it does those of the Supervisory Board. They feel a joint commitment to corporate management that is founded on sustainability
Sustainability – at GESCO it is more than a phrase
Sustainability is deeply rooted in GESCO’s DNA: The majority of our companies are many decades old. As a long-term investor, we continue their proven business models and develop them further, together with the company’s management. Without sustainable management, these SMEs would not be where they are today.