In Germany there are a further 2,800 staff, most of them based at the company's main factory in Augsburg, which makes four stroke diesel engines as well as exhaust gas turbochargers. There are further production units in Hamburg and Lage in Germany.
With effect from 9 June 2000 MAN acquired the diesel engine business of the French engineering company Alstom, which is based in the UK. Alstom Engines of the UK makes medium- and high-speed diesel and gas-fuelled engines with outputs ranging from 500kW to 15,000 kW, mainly for use in fast ferries, navy, coastguard ships and luxury yachts as well as land-based applications. The acquisition is seen as a good fit with MAN B&W's traditional offerings.
1.2 Company Performance
MAN B&W Diesel Group
MAN B&W Diesel Group has sales of around DM 2 billion (Yen 98 billion) and employs around 6,000 people. Just over 80 per cent of sales are accounted for by customers outside Germany, slightly higher than the proportion recorded over the previous three years. This trend looks set to continue, with 83 per cent of new orders gained in 1998/99 coming from customers outside Germany.
Figures for the first nine months of the company's 1999/2000 financial year indicate that sales of diesel engines (including non-marine engines) had risen by 1 per cent compared with the same period the previous year and that orders had climbed by 18 per cent.
MAN B&W Diesel A/S
There are no separate published accounts available for MAN B&W Diesel A/S, but it is reported to have sales of just under DM 850 million (just over Yen 40,000 million), the overwhelming majority of which is accounted for by marine customers. The company employs around 2,100 people, about 1,000 of whom are employed in Copenhagen, with around 400 people working in components, production and R&D and a further 600 at an adjacent site engaged in marketing and administration at the company's head office.
