A IPO év az Mühlbauer Holding AG & Co. KGaA - 1998
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Through IPO a privately held company transforms into a public company. Initial public offerings are mostly used by companies to raise the expansion of capital, possibly to monetize the investments of early private investors, and to become publicly traded enterprises. A company selling shares is never required to repay the capital to its public investors. After the IPO, when shares trade freely in the open market, money passes between public investors.
Although IPO offers many advantages, there are also significant disadvantages, chief among these are the costs associated with the process and the requirement to disclose certain information that could prove helpful to competitors.
The IPO process is colloquially known as going public. Details of the proposed offering are disclosed to potential purchasers in the form of a lengthy document known as a prospectus. Most companies undertake an IPO with the assistance of an investment banking firm acting in the capacity of an underwriter. Underwriters provide several services, including help with correctly assessing the value of shares.
Mühlbauer Holding AG engages in the production and personalization of smart cards, passports, and RFID solutions worldwide. The company develops and assembles customized production systems, as well as provides matching software solutions for the production process of document and solution related products. It also provides semiconductor related products, such as die sorting, carrier tapes, flip chips for LED, RFID/SMART labels, flexible solar technology, and multicomponent flexible electronic; vision inspection products, such as TEMA security inspection and TEMA industrial inspection equipment; and accessories, such as card measuring stations, UV-lamps, thread counters, color fans, tool trollies, and cardboard cartons for cards. In addition, the company offers emobility, flexible solar, and flexible electronics solutions; and government solutions, which include ID card, e-passport, driver's license and vehicle registration, document verification, border management, e-government, and production facility solutions. Further, it offers automation, marking, and traceability systems, as well as government and industry specific software solutions; and operates in the solar back-end industry. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Roding, Germany.