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Drees & Sommer AG 
Type Stock corporation Industry Real Estate Industry Founded 1970 Headquarters Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany Key people Dierk Mutschler
Peter Tzeschlock
Gabriele Walker-Rudolf (Executive Board); Hans Sommer, Chair of Supervisory BoardRevenue 146,5 Mio. EUR (2010) Employees 1125 (2010)[1] Website www.dreso.com Drees & Sommer is an engineering service provider and consultant for the construction and real estate industries. The three divisions of the company are Project Management, Real Estate Consulting and Engineering (building design & construction and infrastructure sectors). Projects of all sizes are supported from the initial idea through realization to building operation. The company focuses in particular on Green Building and Green Development: From management consulting to certification, Drees & Sommer covers all sustainable building and development services as well as the appropriate international Green Building Labels. A further service focus is on the optimization of established buildings. The company has managed major projects such as Potsdamer Platz in Berlin and the Trade Fair Center Stuttgart and is currently managing the construction of the new headquarters building Bau 1 ('Building 1') for the pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-La Roche in Basel.
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Company structure
Drees & Sommer AG is a stock company managed by Partners. All shares are held by active or former managers of the company who have made a special contribution to the success of the company. As a result, the company is independent of third parties. The individual regional offices are independent operational units under the Drees & Sommer AG holding company. The Executive Board comprises three active Partners.[2]
Potsdamer Platz
Stuttgart Trade Fair Center
Bau 1, Hoffmann-La RocheHistory
In 1970 Gerhard Drees and Volker Kuhne founded an engineering firm specializing in critical path analysis, production planning, company organization, and construction consulting. Hans Sommer became a Partner in 1973. Over the years, the number of employees and regional offices grew steadily. In the early 1980s, the company adopted the Partner model to manage this continual growth. Each regional office is an independent self-managed subsidiary responsible for its employees. Drees & Sommer Aktiengesellschaft (stock corporation) was founded in 1991. The individual companies are now organized under the umbrella of the holding company. Company founder Gerhard Drees was Chair of the Supervisory Board, Hans Sommer Chair of the Management Board (now Executive Board). Hans Sommer took over from Gerhard Drees as Chair of the Supervisory Board at the beginning of 2008. The company is managed by the Partners, who are also the stockholders of the company. Partners Dierk Mutschler, Peter Tzeschlock and Gabriele Walker-Rudolf were elected to the Executive Board. The Company celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2010.
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Categories:- Companies (Stuttgart)
- Construction and civil engineering companies of Germany
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