- France’s Derichebourg Multiservices installs 1,200 smart sensors from Siemens company Enlighted, to control HQ’s energy consumption
- Sensors are installed directly in the ceiling lights
- Data from the sensors has the potential to optimize building management, facility management and visitor experience
Derichebourg Multiservices, a provider of facility services for
companies and municipalities, has equipped its new headquarters in Créteil near
Paris with IoT solutions from Siemens subsidiary Enlighted. Enlighted’s smart
sensors are integrated directly into the LED lights in the new office space,
enabling Derichebourg Multiservices
to make significant energy savings to meet its own environmental goals, and
comply with government regulations requiring companies in France to achieve 40
percent energy savings by 2030.
- More than €9 million in immediate humanitarian aid for emergency-response organizations
- Uncomplicated assistance for impacted Siemens employees to match homes for refugees and in-kind donations
- Siemens Warsaw location being converted to a refugee center for 150 people
- Additional €3 million grants in-kind of technical portfolio and infrastructure service
Siemens AG
is focused on a number of humanitarian measures to support its Ukrainian
employees and their families as well as among refugees from the war zone, having
launched relief campaign in early March. Through the charitable Siemens Caring
Hands organization, the company and Siemens Healthineers each donated an initial
emergency €1 million to the German Red Cross. The two Siemens companies
have promised to match every euro received from employee donations, meaning the
sum raised is now more than €9 million.
- Siemens and Desert Technologies launch joint venture Capton Energy to develop and invest in solar and smart infrastructure in the Middle East, Africa and Asia
- Capton Energy aims to invest in projects of 1GW in aggregate and boost the supply of clean, stable and affordable power in under-served markets
Siemens and Desert Technologies have
launched a joint venture to develop and invest in solar and smart infrastructure in Africa,
the Middle East and Asia, as
announced today at Expo 2020 Dubai. The venture, Capton Energy – which aims to build
up a portfolio of investments in projects with an aggregate capacity of more
than 1 gigawatts (GW) – will support projects providing clean, reliable, and affordable energy in areas that need it most.
- Digital Trust Forum and Charter of Trust to merge
- Bosch and Deutsche Post DHL
Group join Charter of Trust
- Associated Partner Forum further
growing with CyberNB,
Cyber Peace Institute, Cyber Readiness Institute and Global Cyber Alliance
The Charter of Trust (CoT) and the Digital
Trust Forum (DTF) are to join forces and merge under the Charter of Trust
banner to form a joint initiative for greater cybersecurity and digital trust. With
this the Charter of Trust also intends to devote more attention to the topic of
trustworthy artificial intelligence in the future.
The CoT was launched at the Munich Security
Conference in February 2018 by Siemens and eight partners from the industrial
sector. The DTF was formed in Berlin in May 2019 as an initiative of Bosch.
With that Bosch will also join the CoT. The world’s leading logistics company
Deutsche Post DHL Group has decided to join the cybersecurity initiative in
addition, bringing the number of Charter of Trust members up to 17 four years
after it was first signed.
Siemens held its virtual Annual Shareholders' on February 10, 2022.
Here you can find the opening and the speeches of Jim Hagemann
Snabe, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, and of Roland Busch, CEO.
We released our first quarter results for fiscal year 2022 on February 10, 2022. The Press Conference Call and the Analyst Call were broadcast live.
- Dividend 50 cents above prior-year level reflects progressive
dividend policy
- Annual Shareholders’ Meeting
ratifies acts of Managing Board and Supervisory Board by large majority
- Shareholders’ meeting in virtual
format due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
At today’s ordinary Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of Siemens AG,
shareholders endorsed by a large majority of 99.71 percent the proposal by the Managing and
Supervisory Boards to distribute a dividend of €4.00 per share for fiscal 2021,
an increase of 50 cents over the prior fiscal year and an impressive reflection
of Siemens’ progressive dividend policy. The Annual Shareholders’ Meeting also decided
by a large majority to ratify the acts of the members of the Managing and
Supervisory Boards for fiscal 2021. The shareholders’ meeting was held in a
virtual format due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The total number of people
following the virtual Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, at which about 280 questions were asked,
peaked at over 4,500.
- Orders increased 42 percent on a comparable basis to €24.2 billion (Q1 2021: €15.9 billion) on high growth rates at all industrial businesses
- Revenue rose 9 percent on a comparable basis to €16.5 billion (Q1 2021: €14.1 billion)
- Profit Industrial Business was €2.5 billion, a significant increase of 12 percent (Q1 2021: €2.2 billion)
- Net income climbed 20 percent to €1.8 billion (Q1 2021: €1.5 billion) – Outlook confirmed
- At €1.1 billion, free cash flow even stronger than in prior-year quarter (Q1 2021: €1.0 billion)
- Divestment of stake in joint venture Valeo Siemens eAutomotive and of the post and parcel business of Siemens Logistics agreed
- Virtual Annual Shareholders’ Meeting to decide on dividend proposal of €4.00 per share for fiscal 2021 (fiscal 2020: €3.50)
Siemens got
off to a very successful start in fiscal 2022 and continues to rigorously
execute its strategy as a focused technology company. In Q1 (ended December 31,
2021), the company leveraged growth opportunities in many key markets to
achieve increases across all industrial businesses. The outlook for the current
fiscal year 2022 was also confirmed. At the same time, Siemens further focused its
portfolio: in addition to the previously announced divestment of its road
traffic business Yunex Traffic, new owners have been found for the post
and parcel business of Siemens Logistics and for Siemens’ stake in the
joint venture Valeo Siemens eAutomotive.
- Profit impact of around 300 million Euros in Q2 FY22
- Closing expected in July 2022
- Single ownership of Valeo provides strong prospects for joint
venture
- Another successful milestone for Siemens Portfolio Companies
Siemens AG has signed an agreement to sell
its 50 percent stake in the Valeo Siemens e-Automotive (VSeA) joint venture to
Valeo. The positive profit impact of around 300 million Euros will be recorded
in the second quarter of fiscal 2022 and closing is expected in July 2022,
subject to regulatory approvals.