Morten Carlsson became involved in the events market whilst still at school and later became one of the co-founders of a small lighting company in Flensburg (a small town in northern Germany). In August 1988 Carlsson founded Procon. Various company acquisitions followed: Procon acquired majority holdings in suppliers of video technology, camera technology, sound technology and stage construction. Finally, in 1999 the company became a public limited partnership. In the following years Procon acquired other companies and opened new branches and subsidiaries.
Today, the Procon group supplies equipment for projects around the world. It offers its services for events, film and television productions in two commercial sectors - event engineering, under the name Procon Event Engineering, and film light and camera technology under the name Cinegate.
With locations in Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris, Brussels, Shanghai, Zurich, London, Cape Town and Budapest Procon is represented in 8 countries. The company currently employs more than 450 employees and holds of one of the largest equipment pools in the market. In 2007, the group achieved a turnover of 92.9 million Euro.
During the last 20 years Procon had the opportunity to supply various major events worldwide including the Olympic Games in Sydney, Athens and Beijing, the Eurovision Song Contest in Athens and Belgrade as well as various world exhibitions.
(Jim Evans)
