Osram

OSRAM Licht AG
Company typeAktiengesellschaft
ISINDE000LED4000 Edit this on Wikidata
IndustrySemiconductor / Photonics
PredecessorAuergesellschaft Edit this on Wikidata
FoundedJuly 1, 1919; 105 years ago (1919-07-01) (Berlin[1])
HeadquartersMunich, Germany
Parentams-OSRAM AG (80,3%)[2] (2020–present)
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.ams-osram.com www.osram.com

OSRAM Licht AG is a German company that makes electric lights, headquartered in Munich and Premstätten (Austria). OSRAM positions itself as a high-tech photonics company that is increasingly focusing on sensor technology, visualization and treatment by light.[3] The company serves customers in the consumer, automotive, healthcare and industrial technology sectors.[4] The operating company of OSRAM is OSRAM GmbH.

Osram was founded in 1919 by the merger of the lighting businesses of Auergesellschaft, Siemens & Halske and Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG). Osram was a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens AG from 1978 to 2013. On 5 July 2013, Osram was spun off from Siemens, and the listing of its stock began on Frankfurt Stock Exchange on 8 July 2013.[5] Osram's business with conventional light sources was spun off in 2016 under the name Ledvance and sold to a Chinese consortium.[6]

After a bidding war[7] with Bain Capital, Osram was taken over by Austrian company AMS in July 2020.[8][9][10] Since then, the company has operated under the name AMS Osram.[11]

The name is derived from osmium and Wolfram (German for tungsten, also used in English). Both elements were commonly used for lighting filaments at the time the company was founded.

  1. ^ "100 Jahre OSRAM: Licht hat einen Namen" (PDF). Osram.de. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  2. ^ "ams OSRAM announces successful delisting offer and forthcoming delisting of OSRAM shares". ams-osram.com. Retrieved 1 April 2023.
  3. ^ "#TheNewOSRAM - the high-tech photonics company". OSRAM. 25 November 2020.
  4. ^ "ams & OSRAM news". Ams AG. 3 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Osram shares begin trading on the Frankfurt and Munich Stock Exchanges". LEDs Magazine. 8 July 2013.
  6. ^ "Ad hoc: Osram finds best owner for lamps business". OSRAM. 25 November 2020.
  7. ^ "AMS clear to make takeover bid for Osram in potential bidding war". Reuters. 21 August 2019.
  8. ^ "Osram's Managing Board invites ams to talks about the future". OSRAM. 6 December 2019.
  9. ^ "Osram supports public takeover offer from Bain Capital and The Carlyle Group". OSRAM. 4 July 2019.
  10. ^ "ams announces successful closing of the OSRAM acquisition, aims to create a global leader in sensor solutions and photonics". Ams AG. 9 July 2020.
  11. ^ "About us - ams-osram - ams". ams-osram. Retrieved 28 July 2022.