NOTE: This article will tell you who Reinhold is based on his early work. It was written in 2011 and gives the history of Arthrex from 1991 to 2007.
Enterpreneur of the Year: REINHOLD SCHMIEDING (by Jean Gruss | Lee Collier Editor)
Who is Reinhold Schmieding? ...and how did he build the world's largest Sports Medicine company?
Few people have heard of Reinhold Schmieding, but the reclusive Naples entrepreneur has quietly built one of the world’s leading medical-device manufacturing companies.
When Reinhold Schmieding pulled into Naples on a steamy August day in 1991, all the assets of his small company, Arthrex Inc., fit in the van and a U-Haul trailer he was driving.
Today, Arthrex may be the biggest company on the Gulf Coast you’ve never heard of.
With a half a billion dollars in annual revenues and more than 3,000 products, Arthrex has quietly become one of the largest arthroscopic medical-device manufacturers in the world. But unless you’re a surgeon or a Naples insider, you’re not likely to learn anything about the company or how it became so successful.
And that’s fine by its founder and president. Schmieding, 53, rarely grants interviews and declined requests to tel...
