Ammann Group Holding AG is a Swiss mechanical engineering company specialised on machines for the building industry and road construction. As of 2012, the company employs a workforce of about 3,400. It is incorporated in Bern, but its offices are located in Langenthal (canton of Bern). From 1990 until his election to the Swiss Federal Council in 2010, the company chairman was Johann Schneider-Ammann. Since the appointment as CEO of Hans-Christian Schneider, the son of Johann Schneider-Ammann, the company has been administered in the owner family's sixth generation.