Mammut Sports Group AG is a Swiss

Switzerland

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 producer of mountaineering and trekking equipment with headquarters in Seon

Seon, Switzerland

Seon is a municipality in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.-Geography:Seon has an area, , of . Of this area, or 51.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 29.5% is forested...

, Switzerland. The company was founded in 1862 by Kaspar Tanner in Dintikon

Dintikon

Dintikon is a municipality in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.The small village is located near Lenzburg and Wohlen.-Geography:...

. Today, Mammut belongs to Conzzeta AG. Amongst others, Raichle (mountain and trekking shoes), Ajungilak (sleeping bags) and Toko (ski wax) belong to Mammut Sports Group.

In 2005, Mammut obtained a sales volume of 150 million CHF

Swiss franc

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, 70% of which was generated outside Switzerland. The company is world leader in terms of climbing ropes, together with German company Edelrid. Mammut has about 200 employees at its headquarters and runs many establishments all over the world. The central repository for Europe is in Memmingen

Memmingen

Memmingen is a town in the Bavarian administrative region of Swabia in Germany. It is the central economic, educational and administrative centre in the Danube-Iller region. To the west the town is flanked by the Iller, the river that marks the Baden-Württemberg border...

, Germany

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, which has been expanded several times.

Toko

Founded by Jakob Tobler in 1916 in Altstätten, Switzerland as 'Tobler & Co.', the company originally produced household chemicals. In 1933 the name was abbreviated to Toko, concurrent with their first ski wax

Ski wax

Ski wax is a material applied to the bottom of skis or snowboards to improve the ski's performance on snow. It can also be applied to other devices that slide over snow and ice such as toboggans.- Types of ski wax :...

 product. Changing hands several times, it was made part of Mammut in 2003.

Raichle

In April 2003, Mammut purchased Raichle, from Austrian owners Kneissl

Kneissl

Kneissl is an Austrian manufacturer of hand made skis, biking and tennis equipment and apparel, based in Kufstein in the state of Tyrol and established by Franz Kneissl in 1861. Kneissl was accredited with the invention of “big foot” skis.-External links:...

, although Raichle had originally been founded in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland.

While Raichle has been making boots for about 100 years, as of March 2009, former Raichle products are now marketed as Mammut.