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Type | GmbH |
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Industry | Machinery and automotive industry |
Founded | 24 December 1948 |
Headquarters | Bad Oldesloe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany |
Key people | Mario Schreiber (Chair), Uwe Brenne, Matthias Wolf |
Products | Cleaning industry, ultra-light commercial vehicles |
Revenue | 197.3 million EUR (2009) [1] |
Total assets | 100.9 million EUR (2009) [1] |
Number of employees | 1166 (2009) [1] |
Website | www |
Hako GmbH is a manufacturer of street sweeping equipment and ultra-light commercial vehicles, headquartered in Bad Oldesloe, Germany with customers in about sixty countries. The company was founded on 24 December 1948; its name derives from Hans Koch & Sohn. It produces the Multicar line of vehicles.
In 1924 in Mecklenburg, Hans Koch invented the world's first small mechanical cultivator, the Di-Mo-Ha. He founded the company in Pinneberg in 1948, and it began assembling and mass-producing cultivators and single-axle milling machines. [2] In 1956 the company acquired a piece of land on Lübecker Straße in Bad Oldesloe; in the 1970s Hako moved to the industrial area on Hamburger Straße, where its headquarters are now located. It also has a technology center in Trappenkamp.
In 1998 Hako acquired sufficient shares in Multicar to become its controlling shareholder. [3]
As of 2010, Hako is a worldwide leader in outdoor cleaning equipment. [4] In 2013 Hako was represented by a board member on the Cleaning Systems trade association of the VDMA (de:Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau), [5] the largest industrial/engineering federation in Germany.
Today Hako is one of the leading manufacturers of professional machines for internal cleaning, external cleaning and plant care. [2] [4] The company manufacturers severals types of polishing machines, carpet cleaning equipment, dust and water vacuums, scrubbers, sweepers, street-sweeping machines, single-axis motorized tools[ clarification needed ], small tractors (Hakotrac), and electric tractors. In addition, Hako offers cleaning and maintenance products for professional janitors. Worldwide distribution is carried out by a dozen separate companies, as well as general importers in over 60 countries around the world, with Hako-Werke GmbH as the main business of the Hako-Group. [2]
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