Aebi Schmidt Holding AG is a Swiss technology and construction company.The company emerged in 2007 from the merger of the Swiss Aebi Group from Burgdorf BE and the Schmidt Group from the German city of St. Blasien . The shareholders of the two companies agreed in April 2007 to merge their companies. The Aebi Schmidt Group employs more than 1,500 people and generated sales of € 325 million in 2015. The company is fully privately owned. With a stake of 57.36 percent, the majority shareholder is PCS Holding AG by Peter Spuhler . Another 38.65 percent are owned by Gebuka AG and 3.99 percent owned by other members of the Board of Directors and Executive Management in the united states.