Ganz Company Profile

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Company Name	Ganz
Website	http://ganzdata.hu/
Snippet	The Ganz Works or Ganz (Hungarian: Ganz vállalatok or Ganz Művek, Ganz companies, formerly Ganz and Partner Iron Mill and Machine Factory) was a group of companies operating between 1845 and 1949 in Budapest, Hungary. It was named after Ábrahám Ganz, the founder and the manager of the company. It is probably best known for the manufacture of tramcars, but was also a pioneer in the application of three-phase alternating current to electric railways. Ganz also made ships (Ganz Danubius), bridge steel structures (Ganz Acélszerkezet) and high-voltage equipment (Ganz Transelektro). In the early 20th century the company experienced its heyday, it became the third largest industrial enterprise in Kingdom of Hungary after the Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works and the MÁVAG company. Since 1989, various parts of Ganz have been taken over by other companies.
Type	Private company (former state company)
Owner	Ábrahám Ganz and his family (1845–1947) State of Hungary (1946–1949)
Founded	1845
Website	http://ganzdata.hu/
Founders	Ábrahám Ganz
Industry	transport vehicle manufacturing iron and steel manufacturing
Products	tramcars trains ships electrical generators
Key people	Ábrahám Ganz Károly Zipernowsky Ottó Bláthy Miksa Déri András Mechwart Kálmán Kandó Donát Bánki János Csonka
Area served	Worldwide
Headquarters	Buda, Hungary
Subsidiaries	Ganz Danubius (ship yard) Ganz Acélszerkezet (bridge steel structures) Ganz Transelektro (power plant and power distribution equipment)

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