Two years ago Prof. Dr. Fritz Sennheiser celebrated his 95th birthday
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In 1945, Dr. Fritz Sennheiser together with seven engineers and technicians set out on the venture to found a new company. The research and development specialists converted their university institute, which had been moved during the war to the small village of Wennebostel, into what became known as "Labor W".
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The headquarters of Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG are still located in Wennebostel,
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which is now part of the municipality of Wedemark. The company also has production sites at its second German location in Burgdorf (electronics manufacturing, wireless technology), as well as in Tullamore, Ireland (headphones production) and Albuquerque, USA (wireless technology for the American hemisphere).
The Sennheiser Group also includes the studio microphone specialist Georg Neumann GmbH, Berlin, K+H Vertriebs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (loudspeakers and studio monitors) and the Denmark-based joint venture Sennheiser Communications, which develops headsets for the PC, office and call center markets.There are approximately 2000 Sennheiser employees in 90 countries around the globe.
Sennheiser´s products are sold by a worldwide network of long-standing sales partners and subsidiaries.
In 2007 the turnover of the family-owned company was around 395 million euros, of which 83% were achieved outside Germany.
