CCS Group

CCS
Customer Care & Solutions Holding AG

Type	public limited company
Industry	Electronic Manufacturing Services
Founded	1985 [1]
Headquarters	Lachen, Switzerland
Key people	Hans-Peter Metzler (President of the Board of Directors) Thomas Kaiser, CEO
Number of employees	1’950 [2]
Website	www.ccsedms.com

The CCS Customer Care & Solutions Holding AG is an EMS-Service-Provider with headquarters in Switzerland. The Group has subsidiaries in Austria, China, Hong Kong, Germany, Slovakia, Sri Lanka and Switzerland. Within the region of Switzerland, Germany and Austria the company ranks among the Top10-EMS-companies.

Operations

The CCS Group is an international partner for system integration for European and Asian OEMs of electronic appliances. It offers services for industries such as general industrial applications, medical, high-tech consumer and transportation (automotive sub-suppliers, traction applications, municipal and special vehicles, ship construction). ^[3]

Services

Services offered: product conception, development, supply chain management, production and after sales services. All sites are certified to the standards of ISO 14001.^[4]

Subsidiaries

Europe:

• Germany: Aichach, Hildesheim, Sexau (Fr. i. Breisgau)
• Austria: Frankenmarkt, Rottenmann
• Switzerland: Lachen, Lyss, Mendrisio
• Slovakia: Hlohovec

Asia

• China: Zhongshan, Hong Kong
• Sri Lanka: Kochchikade

Milestones

The todays Group evolved from the company Formatest, founded 1985 in CH-Ostermundigen. Founding of CCS Customer Care & Solutions Holding AG in 2003: joining of Formatest AG and Asian Elsuma AG. In 2011 Private Equity Partner "Zurmont Madison Management AG" became majority shareholder, which led to additional growth:

• 2011: CCS Group new majority shareholder in Adaxys SA (CH-Mendrisio)
• 2012: CCS Group new majority shareholder in Gohlke Elektronik GmbH (DE-Hildesheim)
• 2014: forming of new CCS Holding AG: fusion of AKAtech & CCS Group to the new CCS Customer Care & Solutions Holding AG^[1]

References

1. "Milestones of the CCS Group". www.ccsedms.com/en. CCS Customer Care & Solutions Holding AG.
2. "CCS Group, annual report". CCS Group. CCS Group.
3. Zühlke, Karin (October 28, 2015). "»Wir wollen 10% unseres Umsatzes in (Süd-)Deutschland generieren«".
4. Zühlke, Karin (2015). ""We want to generate 10 percent of our sales in Germany"" (PDF). Markt & Technik, EMS-Guide 2015 (EMS-Guide 2015): 6-9.