Linde is an industrial gas and engineering company. The company is comprised of a Gas Division which includes Linde Gas, BOC Gases and Afrox, Linde Engineering and Gist. 
The merger of Linde and BOC is claimed to have created a leading global industrial gases and engineering player with a strong position in all markets and core areas of competence.
Linde is said to bring a particularly strong market presence in western and eastern Europe and Latin America while BOC has extended the company’s global network to include the UK, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. The company states that it will continue to acquire selected companies to further extend its global reach.
After the acquisition of BOC, Linde has achieved gas and engineering related sales of approximately Euro13bn in 2008 with more than 51,908 employees.
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Key Personnel
President and CEO: Wolfgang Reitzle
Member (CFO): Georg Denoke
Member: Aldo Belloni
Member: Kent Masters
(Updated May 2009)
Contacts
Linde AG
Leopoldstrasse 252
80807 Munich
Germany
Tel.: +49 89 35 75 701
Fax: +49 89 35 757 1075
Email: info@linde.de
www.linde.com
Linde
Company Structure
Linde is an industrial gas and engineering company. Founded in 1879 as a supplier of refrigeration machines, it first started manufacturing oxygen in 1902 and became the world's fourth largest gas supplier when it acquired Sweden's AGA in 2000. In 2004, Linde's refrigeration business was spun off and later sold to Carrier Corp. On 4 September 2006, Linde acquired BOC. The £16/share agreed offer, which valued BOC at around £8.2bn, took effect from 5 September 2006.Following the merger of Linde and BOC the company now trades under the name "The Linde Group". The name change applies to the group only. On the operating level, the Linde and BOC brands will remain unchanged.
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Strategy & Financial Highlights
Linde states that its strategy is geared towards sustainable earnings-based growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Looking ahead, Linde has targeted earnings of more than Euro3bn in 2010. ICIS also provides you with key financial data listed in table form.
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