Company Profile

Giesecke & Devrient

Company Description

The Giesecke & Devrient Group (G&D) is a leading global technology provider with its headquarters in Munich, Germany, and 49 subsidiaries, joint ventures, and associated companies across every continent. At the end of 2008, G&D had a headcount of around 10,000. The Group generated total sales of around 1.7 billion euros in the 2008 fiscal year, around 85 percent of which stemmed from outside Germany.
G&D was founded by Hermann Giesecke and Alphonse Devrient in Leipzig – a city with a rich printing and publishing heritage – as the “Officin für Geld- und Werthpapiere” in 1852. Today, G&D is a family-owned company with its roots in Germany and operations all over the world.
Security, competence, and trust are the watchwords of the Group. Its customer-centric products, systems, and services make G&D a reliable partner for governments, central banks, public authorities, and other companies. G&D offers innovative products, services, and solutions for banknote production and processing (Banknote business unit), as well as smart cards and complex system solutions for protecting electronic transactions and data, particularly in the fields of telecommunications and electronic payment (Cards and Services business unit). It also provides high-security travel documents, healthcare cards, and ID cards that both serve as a means of traditional identification and authenticate and secure e-government services and online business transactions (Government Solutions business unit). The New Business division, founded in 2006, stimulates additional growth beyond these three established business units by developing solutions for new markets and technologies.

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