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The Rodenstock CEO since November 2008 is Dr Olaf Göttgens (on the left). As well as managing the total corporate group, he is also responsible for the Marketing division.
The other members of the Rodenstock executive board are: Dr Johannes Burtscher (second from left), responsible for Finances, Controlling, IT and HR, Dr Michael Kleer (second from right), responsible for Operations (Purchasing, R&D, Production, Logistics and Quality Assurance) as well as Marc Oliver Schneider, responsible for the Sales division.

Supervisory board
Rodenstock GmbH has a supervisory board of five members.

Corporate structure
Rodenstock took the first step towards a corporate structure suitable for the capital market with its transformation into a GmbH (a limited liability corporation) in 2002. In June 2003, the first financial investor from outside the family, Permira Beteiligungsberatung GmbH, joined the company. In March 2007, the European holding company Bridgepoint took over the shares of Rodenstock GmbH that had been held by Permira fonds until then.

As an international company, Rodenstock is using a modern instrument of corporate financing with this structure and has thus substantially increased its competitive power.

Key Figures
Over the past few years, Rodenstock has concentrated on the core business of spectacles, which means the development, manufacture, and marketing of ophthalmic lenses, frames, as well as sport and sunglasses. It has broken away from marginal activities in the areas of technical optics (precision optics) as well as instruments and machinery for ophthalmic optics.

It invested in innovative advanced development of ophthalmic lenses, attractive frames collections of the Rodenstock Brand and Porsche Design, new production plants in Germany and internationally, as well as in new sales subsidiaries in worldwide markets.

The company, which was founded in 1877, has a worldwide workforce of approximately 4600 (including 1700 in Germany) and is represented in more than 80 countries with sales subsidiaries and distribution partners.

With expertise in both eyeglass lenses and frames, Rodenstock is the only brand in the eye care industry to offer wearers of glasses the complete ”glasses” system form one source.

In financial year 2007, Rodenstock recorded sales of € 396 million.