Océ
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| Industry | Manufacturing, technology |
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| Founded | 1877 |
| Founder | Lodewijk van der Grinten |
| Headquarters | Venlo, Netherlands |
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Key people
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Anton Schaaf (CEO), Peter Elverding (Chairman of the supervisory board) |
| Products | Printers, scanners, plotters, , printing software, consulting services |
| Revenue | €2.860 billion (2010) |
 (€72.3 million) (2010)
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| Profit |
(€167.0 million) (2010)
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| Total assets | €2.142 billion (end 2010) |
| Total equity | €488.1 million (end 2010) |
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Number of employees
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20,710 (FTE, end 2010) |
| Parent | Canon Inc. |
| Website | www.oce.com |
Océ, a Canon company is a Netherlands-based company that develops, manufactures and sells printing and hardware and related software. The offering includes office printing and copying systems; production printers and wide format printing systems for both technical documentation and color display graphics. The company was founded in 1877. With headquarters in Venlo, the Netherlands, Océ is active in over 100 countries and employs more than 20,000 people worldwide.
The company has research and development and production facilities in the Netherlands, Canada, Belgium, Germany, France, Japan, the Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary and the United States.
In 2010 Océ was acquired by Canon Inc. of Japan.
Océ started in 1877 as a family business manufacturing machines for coloring butter and margarine. The company’s founder, chemist Lodewijk van der Grinten, supplied this coloring to farmers and then this was supplied to the margarine factories of Jurgens and Van den Bergh. In 1930, the margarine factories of Jurgens and Van den Bergh and the English Lever Brothers merged to become Unilever. From 1877 to 1972, Unilever used only the coloring produced by the Venlo factory in its margarine.
In 1919 the grandson of Lodewijk, Louis van der Grinten, became interested in the blueprint process used for producing wide-format technical drawings. At that time, blueprint paper was extremely light-sensitive, and had a very short shelf life. Louis invented a coating that made blueprint paper last up to a year. This is considered the company’s first step into providing document solutions.
Océ has three Strategic Business Units: Digital Document Systems (small format), Wide Format Printing Systems (wide format) and Océ Business Services.
These operational services can be divided into three different activities. At first there are the basic document services such as mail and print room management, scanning, archiving and desk top publishing services. Furthermore, there are value added services such as printer fleet management, digital mailroom, printing-on-demand, creative services and document management in litigations. At last document process outsourcing such as insurance policy process management can be offered.
Over the last few decades, Océ has made numerous acquisitions.
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