The German stock market index Dax is experiencing the biggest reform in its history.

34 years after its introduction, the index of the most important stocks in Germany was expanded from 30 to 40 values ​​at the start of trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

These are the ten new ones. 

AIRBUS

Annual turnover: almost 50 billion euros

Employees: a good 130,000

The aircraft manufacturer and armaments company has long been big enough for the DAX - now the trading volume is sufficient for the first stock market league.

Because so far the paper has been traded primarily in Paris, the Frankfurt stock exchange only played a subordinate role for the Franco-German group.

With a market capitalization of around 92 billion euros, Airbus will be in fourth place in the Dax, after Siemens and ahead of Deutsche Telekom.

The joint venture was founded in 2000 as a merger of the German DASA, the French Aerospatiale-Matra and the Spanish CASA.

BRENNTAG

Annual turnover: 11.7 billion euros

Employees: more than 17,000

Brenntag is the world market leader in trading chemicals and ingredients.

The Essen-based company offers more than 10,000 different products, which it buys and stores in large quantities.

Divided and packaged in smaller quantities, these are then delivered to around 195,000 customers from a wide variety of markets - for example companies in the fields of coatings, food, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, personal care and drinking water treatment.

The Brenntag network has 550 locations in Europe, North and South America and Asia.

HELLOFRESH

Annual turnover: 3.75 billion euros

Employees: more than 11,000

The rise in the DAX is also likely to be related to the Corona crisis, in which people around the world discovered cooking in their own kitchens.

HelloFresh makes its living with cardboard boxes filled with measured food and recipe cards.

The Berlin-based company now supplies 7.7 million customers - before the corona pandemic at the end of 2019, it was less than three million.

The ten-year-old company is now active in 15 countries and is the industry leader in the USA.

PORSCHE SE

Annual turnover: 107 million euros

Employees: 916

The holding, controlled by the Porsche and Piech families, earns billions from its 53.3 percent stake in the ordinary shares of Volkswagen.

The VW main shareholder with its three dozen employees in Stuttgart does not make any turnover.

Only the subsidiary PTV from Karlsruhe, a consultant and software provider for mobility solutions with almost 900 employees, achieves this.

PSE also has stakes in five technology companies in the US and Israel and is on the lookout for further investments.

The chairman of the board is Hans Dieter Pötsch, head of the VW supervisory board.

PUMA

Turnover: 5.2 billion euros

Employees: 14,300

Before the Second World War, the brothers Rudolf and Adolf Dassler still made their sports shoes together - the rift followed in the war years. The result: Puma was founded in 1948 by Rudolf, while Adolf went into business for himself with Adidas. Both companies are still based in Herzogenaurach, Franconia, near Nuremberg. However, Puma has long been lagging behind Adidas in terms of sales. The luxury group Kering joined Puma in 2007 and wanted to focus the company on fashion and lifestyle. But he soon lost interest and separated from the majority in 2018. Puma boss Björn Gulden, a former soccer player, is now focusing more on sport.