Carl Zeiss AG vs FOS

Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.

Carl Zeiss AG is the older of the two, founded in 1846 — 53 years before FOS.

Founded: 1846; 1899
Status: Active; Closed 1911
Headquarters: Oberkochen, Germany; Warsaw, Poland
Industry: optics; optics
Founders: Carl Zeiss; Aleksander Ginsberg
Employees: 29,309; Not recorded
Legal form: Aktiengesellschaft; Not recorded
Parent: Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung; Not recorded
Website: zeiss.com; Not recorded

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Carl Zeiss AG and FOS.