Maxdata used its own name for B2B products while selling notebooks and displays for the customer market under the Belinea brand.

In 1997, Maxdata was majority-owned by Vobis, itself a fully-owned subsidiary of the Metro AG.

[1] In 2003, the company was restructured as the Maxdata AG and listed in the Prime Standard.

Maxdata filed insolvency proceedings at the Local Court in Essen on Wednesday, 25 June 2008.

[6] Its product lines included servers, desktop computers, notebooks and the Belinea series of monitors.