Maxdata goes titsup
Slumping revenues
Maxdata has gone bust. The German computer manufacturer filed for insolvency proceedings at the Local Court in Essen today.
The management board has "decided on this step because pending illiquidity puts continued business operations at risk", the company said in a statement.
In other words, it has run out of cash.
"The high pressure of the competition and the immense fall in prices in the IT industry have affected Maxdata for some years. The company has suffered a heavy decline in turnover and results. In spite of a restructuring program launched in 2006 the turnaround could not be achieved in 2007 or in the first half of 2008."
The company, which makes servers, computers, notebooks and displays, has about 1,000 employees.
Maxdata was founded by Holger Lampatz, and initially sold monitors and graphics cards to the trade. The monitor brand Belinea was introduced in 1991.
In 1997, the company started a sales offices in the UK and in other countries, but in 2000 the company was already forced to shut down its OEM business. Turnover fell to €952.2m.
In 2005, Maxdata achieved its biggest revenues with servers, desktops and notebooks as well as Belinea TFT displays, but success was short-lived.
The insolvency proceedings will also affect subsidiaries in Germany and abroad, with the exception of the sales companies in Switzerland (Baar) and the Netherlands (Maxdata Benelux, Etten-Leur). ®
COMMENTS
Was bound to happen
Shame really as the kit was decent quality. Used to work there back around 99-2000 and saw which way hardware margins were going. It's not enough these days to flog tin without a unique offering unless you're one of the big boys. Would you buy a rebadged intel server from them when you could get an HP/DELL for less money? Feel sorry for the remaining staff, good people.
..oh and paris because even she could see this coming.
Shame
Still using a Maxdata. Cheap, quiet, stable. Perhaps they didn't need to be replaced often enough.
@Hans-Peter Lackner
Last time I bought from Dell (10 PCs for our training room) they were delivered without keyboards. 24 hours later the keyboards arrived but were the wrong ones (PS2s not USBs). 2 days later another batch of keyboards arrived this time they were the heavy "clack key" types instead of the slim boards we'd ordered. Finally a week after we had taken delivery we finally got the keyboards we ordered...
...we switched on the PCs and found them loaded with Windows NT instead of Windows 2000.
@Gordon Pryra
I don't know where you buy your gear, but I buy Dell and I got everything right everytime... Maybe you should check your ordering process??
@AC
"We had a number of machine which were incorrectly syspreped"
I'm guessing that your not exactly experianced in the IT world then...
Buy 10 manchines from each of the top 10 manufactures and tell me the % that actually turned up on time were
a) What you ordered
b) Turned on and worked out of the box
