The Apleona company

As a real estate and facility manager with a high level of technical expertise, we support your portfolio strategy with partnership-based contract models, innovative products and digital solutions, thus ensuring the sustainable development of the value of your properties, trouble-free and sustainable operation and a high quality of stay in your buildings. Over 40,000 employees are there for you. In over 30 countries in the EMEA region. Wherever you need us.

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Realising your full potential – We realise your real estate assets

As Europe's leading facilities and services company, we understand your specific needs as a user, owner or investor. Our business model is based on long-term client relationships. This makes us the ideal service partner for the successful development and implementation of your portfolio strategy, helping you to maintain the value of your real estate, enhance the quality of your users' experience, and ensure the optimal, trouble-free, and sustainable operation of your buildings and facilities.

We take the strain off your core business

Our range of services is almost seamless. In addition to all technical, commercial and infrastructural FM services, it also includes the installation of building technology, interior fit-out and real estate management.

We can help you decarbonize your real estate with our deep expertise in ESG solutions and our broad portfolio of green real estate products.

In short, we manage and operate your real estate and facilities, maintain and optimize their technical systems and energy consumption, reduce the CO2 emissions of your buildings, modernize and renovate them sustainably, ensure compliance with ESG guidelines, and implement modern workplace strategies for your users. With these and many other real estate services, we help you focus on your core business and preserve the value of your real estate.

Modular or integrated – but always from a single source

All our services are available individually, bundled or as an integrated service. Always with a high proportion of in-house services, maximum transparency and optimally tailored to your needs.

Country and service-related operating companies in a regional or supra-regional account structure, depending on the client's requirements, ensure optimum service provision and a uniformly high standard of quality across national borders.

Apleona – Facts & Figures

40.000+EmployeesEMEA-wide

32Countriesinternational

150+Office locationsEMEA-wide

4,0+Billion €Turnover

10.000+ClientsEMEA-wide

30+Yearsexperience in FM

75+Countries of originof our employees

60Digital Solutions available for you

What makes us special

Our experts combine years of experience, technical, commercial and digital expertise with a high level of service and customer focus. From expert ESG consulting, AI-powered analytics, and energy-optimized control and predictive maintenance of technical systems, to the use of robotics and IoT in cleaning and security, to our broad product portfolio for decarbonizing buildings, our specialists in our Competence Centers are constantly developing better and more flexible solutions for our customers.

Our claim

Our goal is to be the most efficient and modern service provider for you in terms of quality, innovation and sustainability by constantly professionalizing and developing our own processes and services.

„We work every day to constantly improve and standardize the way we offer and provide services, how we prove and invoice them to customers, how we purchase services and materials and how we acquire the personnel we need to grow.“

Dr. Jochen Keysberg FRICS CEO Apleona Group

We also work continuously to improve all relevant sustainability criteria at Apleona.

News & Interview about Apleona

Lünendonk-Ranking 2025
Apleona remains market leader in Germany

Large, technically oriented FM companies expect growth of 9.0 per cent by 2025. They also expect growth of between 7 and 8 percent per annum in the following years. With domestic revenue of €2.991 billion, Apleona remains the market leader and is expected to surpass €3 billion in revenue in the current financial year.

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8 Apr 2025, press release
Apleona wins 10-year contract for DHL Group’s German portfolio

Apleona is expected to provide all technical and infrastructural facility management services for DHL Group properties and sites in Germany from 1 May. In total, the contract covers a Germany-wide portfolio of more than 3,700 buildings and more than 15,000 Packstations (pick-up locations). 

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Broader management structure
Changes at FM DACH

On 1 June 2025, Peter Antic will become Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the FM DACH business unit and Managing Director of Apleona Facility Management GmbH. His successor as Managing Director of Apleona Southeast will be Dr Frank Höning as of 1 April 2025.

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1 Apr 2025, press release
Apleona appoints CTO to the executive board

The Apleona Group is expanding its Executive Board to include the position of Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) and appointing Dr Pascal Engel to the Executive Board as of 1 April 2025. In the future, all functions and competences relevant for the further digital transformation and professionalisation of the company will be bundled in the division for which he will be responsible. 

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Change
New COO at FM International

On 1 April 2025, Andreas Neukam will take over as Chief Operating Officer of the FM International business unit. He will succeed James Thoden van Velzen, who will focus on special projects in international business in the future.

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CEO on the change of ownership
We greatly appreciate the confidence placed in Apleona's capabilities.

We are delighted to be working with our new owner, Bain Capital, one of the world's leading private investment firms, to drive our expansion to become the European leader in integrated building management and decarbonisation solutions.

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14 Feb 2025, press release
Bain Capital acquires Apleona from PAI Partners

Facility management group with more than 40,000 employees and revenues of €4 billion will continue to grow dynamically, both organically and through acquisitions, under new owner Bain Capital. CEO Dr Jochen Keysberg: 'With Bain Capital we will continue our development as the European market leader in integrated facility management. We see increasing demand for integrated facility management and decarbonisation solutions.

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EMISSIONEN 2023
Apleona significantly reduces CO₂ emissions again

Apleona's total emissions in 2023 will amount to 543,070 tonnes of CO₂. The majority of this, 510,625 tonnes, comes from purchased goods and services and is not caused by our own activities.

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CEO Interview
‘80% of the assets would have to be replaced.’

CEO Dr Jochen Keysberg in an interview with Immobilienzeitung on the FM market, the successful merger with Gegenbauer and the positioning of the new market leader Apleona in Germany and Europe.

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