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Procon: 20 Years of Event Technology
The Procon group, the leading international full-service supplier of technical equipment for events and television productions, is celebrating 20 years of business. In August 1988 Morten Carlsson, current CEO of Procon, founded the company ‘Procon Bühnen Produktions GmbH' in Hamburg with two partners who are now no longer with the company. Since then the company has grown from being a specialist in lighting technology into a full service supplier for events and television productions.
Morten Carlsson became involved in the events market whilst still at school and later became one of the co-founders of a small lighting company in Flensburg (a small town in northern Germany). In August 1988 he founded Procon with two partners, and various company acquisitions followed with the acquisition of majority holdings in suppliers of video technology, camera technology, sound technology and stage construction. Finally, in 1999 the company became a public limited partnership. In the following years Procon acquired other companies and opened new branches and subsidiaries.
Today the Procon group supplies equipment for projects around the world. It offers its skills as a full-service supplier for events, film and television productions in two commercial sectors: event engineering under the name ‘PROCON Event Engineering', and film light and camera technology under the name ‘Cinegate'.
With locations in Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris, Brussels, Shanghai, Zurich, London, Cape Town and Budapest, Procon is represented in eight countries. The company currently employs more than 450 employees and holds one of the largest equipment stocks in the market with a value of more than 188 million euros. In 2007 the group achieved a turnover of 92.9 million euros.
During the last 20 years Procon had the opportunity to supply various major events worldwide: the Olympic Games in Sydney, Athens and Beijing; the Eurovision Song Contest in Athens and Belgrade as well as various world exhibitions.
5th September 2008
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