Industry Chemistry and Plastic Website www.biesterfeld.com Headquarters Hamburg Type Aktiengesellschaft | Revenue €837 Mio (2010) Number of employees 636 (2010) Founded 1906 | |
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Key people Birger Kuck (CEO and Chairman of the management board), Dirk J. Biesterfeld (Chairman of the supervisory board) | ||
The Biesterfeld AG is the strategic holding of the Biesterfeld group of companies, a distributor for plastics and chemicals with subsidiaries in more than 30 countries worldwide. The headquarters of the family-owned company is in Hamburg, Germany.
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History
In 1906 W. Biesterfeld & Co. was founded by the wholesaler and import/export trader Wilhelm Ernst Hinrich Biesterfeld. The company started in trading with salt. Chemicals and fertilizers were established as a second pillar of the company since the 1930s. In-house products were developed, international business started. Walter Biesterfeld joined the company in 1930. After his death his son Dirk J. Biesterfeld took over the family business as General Partner in 1970 and developed it into an internationally operating group. Today the Biesterfeld group is specialized in the distribution of plastics and specialty chemicals and the international chemical trade. The parent company Wilhelm E. H. Biesterfeld GmbH & Co. KG changed its legal status in 2004 and became the strategic holding of the group, called since then Biesterfeld AG.
Business Activities
The four core business units Biesterfeld Plastic, Biesterfeld Spezialchemie, Biesterfeld Performance Rubber and Biesterfeld International as well as the service units BIT-SERV GmbH (IT-Services) and Biesterfeld ChemLogS (Quality and Safety Management Services),