VARTA AG
Sign in to savethumb|Aerial picture of the VARTA microbattery factory in Ellwangen (Jagst)|Ellwangen VARTA AG (; ) is a German company manufacturing batteries for global automotive, industrial, and consumer markets.
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- Company.name
- VARTA AG
- Company.logo
- Varta-logo-2021.svg
- Company.logo_caption
- Logo used since 2021
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.industry
- Electrical equipment
- Company.founder
- Adolf Müller
- Company.hq_location
- Ellwangen, Germany
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.products
- Electrical batteries
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thumb|Aerial picture of the VARTA microbattery factory in Ellwangen (Jagst)|Ellwangen VARTA AG (; ) is a German company manufacturing batteries for global automotive, industrial, and consumer markets.
==History== VARTA was founded by in 1887, and established in 1904 as a subsidiary of Accumulatoren-Fabrik AFA. After World War I, VARTA together with AFA was acquired by German industrialists Günther Quandt and Carl Hermann Roderbourg. After World War II, most of the VARTA shares passed from Günther Quandt to his son Herbert Quandt. The subsidiary in East Berlin was later occupied by the Soviet Union, and was named BAE Batterien.
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