Number of employees: 38,132 worldwide (+4.5 percent); 10,513 in Germany (+3.8 percent)
Equity capital: €1,389.8 million
Equity capital ratio: 37.5 percent (-0.5 percent)
The Hospital Care Division offers integrated therapy concepts of products and services for anaesthesia, intensive and acute care, infusion therapy and urology; annual sales of €1,764.7 million (+3.7%)
Sales of the Aesculap Division, system supplier in the surgical area, rose to €1,098.2 million (+7.3%)
Out Patient Market Division (OPM) offers concepts of comprehensive patient care for the segment of physicians in private practice as well as out-patient and stationary care. Annual sales of €495.8 million (+4.9 %)
B. Braun Avitum, active in the field of extracorporeal blood treatment and dialysis, provider of dialysis centers throughout Europe; sales of €402.7 million means an increase of 14.6 percent in comparison to the previous year
Workforce enlarged to 38,132 (previous year: 35.810)