ANNUAL REPORT 2004 - ELMOS Semiconductor AG
ANNUAL REPORT 2004 - ELMOS Semiconductor AG
ANNUAL REPORT 2004 - ELMOS Semiconductor AG
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GROUP STATUS <strong>REPORT</strong> FINANCIAL STATEMENTS GROUP STRUCTURE GLOSSARY<br />
ÿ Business and economic framework<br />
Future of automotive electronics<br />
Profit, financial and assets situation<br />
Supplementary report<br />
Risk report<br />
Outlook report<br />
853<br />
565<br />
2002<br />
Staff development (end of year)<br />
871<br />
565<br />
2003<br />
Other subsidiaries<br />
SMI<br />
<strong>ELMOS</strong> Advanced Packaging<br />
<strong>ELMOS</strong> North America<br />
<strong>ELMOS</strong> France<br />
<strong>ELMOS</strong> Dortmund<br />
Employees grouped according<br />
to functions<br />
967<br />
619<br />
<strong>2004</strong><br />
Production 53%<br />
Quality 10%<br />
Administration 9%<br />
Distribution 5%<br />
R&D 23%<br />
fore taken over by <strong>ELMOS</strong> at an increasing rate. As a direct result the expenditure for<br />
research and development increased by 4.1 million Euro compared to the previous<br />
year, corresponding with a rate of roughly 17.0 percent of total sales.<br />
EMPLOYEES<br />
As a technology company, <strong>ELMOS</strong> profits to a great extent from the employees’<br />
know-how. Their motivation, understanding, and flexibility are the prerequisite to<br />
the company’s long-term success. Especially with regard to the development of new<br />
products and processes, the employees constitute the deciding criterion for growth<br />
and innovation. At the Dortmund location, in Germany’s most-populated federal<br />
state North Rhine-Westphalia, <strong>ELMOS</strong> is able to recruit from a great number of well-<br />
trained young engineers as there are more than 50 universities and colleges in the<br />
vicinity of Dortmund. As the sole semiconductor manufacturer in the region, <strong>ELMOS</strong><br />
holds a singular position. It therefore keeps attracting satisfying numbers of young<br />
professionals even in times of declining student numbers in the engineering depart-<br />
ments. Since its foundation <strong>ELMOS</strong> has closely cooperated with the neighboring uni-<br />
versities, colleges, and institutes, and many employees now in executive functions<br />
once started out as <strong>ELMOS</strong> interns. Most employees have been with <strong>ELMOS</strong> for many<br />
years.<br />
Despite a strict saving policy in <strong>2004</strong>, <strong>ELMOS</strong> was among the few companies again<br />
providing new jobs. In the fiscal year <strong>2004</strong> the <strong>ELMOS</strong> Group had altogether 928 em-<br />
ployees on the annual average as compared to 874 employees in 2003. The new ap-<br />
pointments were primarily provided by the departments research and development<br />
and distribution, and they were influenced by the first-time consolidation of MECHA-<br />
LESS. By the end of the year 967 people were employed (2003: 871 employees), 619 of<br />
which at the Dortmund location. The average age of employees in the <strong>ELMOS</strong> Group<br />
is 35 years. In the year <strong>2004</strong> the fluctuation comes to 3.2 percent.<br />
On the occasion of the 20th company anniversary and in consideration of the difficult<br />
situation on the job market, <strong>ELMOS</strong> took on 20 additional trainees in the year <strong>2004</strong>,<br />
amounting to 35 trainees altogether to start their job training at <strong>ELMOS</strong> in <strong>2004</strong>.<br />
Nearly half the new trainees are trained in the profession of microtechnologist, a job<br />
outline which <strong>ELMOS</strong> helped form decisively, established at the end of the nineties.<br />
Apart from microtechnologists, <strong>ELMOS</strong> trains physics lab technicians, electricians<br />
for industrial technology, clerks for office communication, industrial clerks, informa-<br />
tion and telecommunication electricians, IT specialists, IT clerks, and electricians. By<br />
the end of <strong>2004</strong> 57 Dortmund employees were trainees. The trainees of today are<br />
tomorrow’s specialists.<br />
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