The Würth Group with its over 400 companies is a globally operating
business. The business areas of the Würth Group are subdivided into two
parts: The companies belonging to the Würth Line and the so-called
Allied Companies. The origin of the worldwide active trading business is
the distribution of assembly and fastening material. The companies of
the Würth Line still work in this field, Würth is the market leader
here.
Allied companies are companies that operate as trade or production
businesses in related business areas, as well as financial service
providers. The business segment ‘Diversification’ that also belongs to
the group of allied companies includes service businesses in logistics
as well as the hotel and restaurant trade.
The Group’s strategy and further development is marked by core
competences and values respected throughout the Group. Above all, the
customer-oriented distribution, the service idea connected with it and
the top quality level are characteristics of the products and services
of the Würth Group.
The parent company of the Würth Group, Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG,
was founded by Adolf Würth in Künzelsau, a town in Baden-Württemberg, in
1945. After the early death of his father in1954, Prof. Reinhold Würth,
today’s Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Würth Group’s Family
Trusts, took over the company. He turned the former screw dealer with
annual sales of Euro 80,000 into a group of companies that generated a
sales volume of Euro 9.98 billion in the business year 2012.
A family business
that is active
all over the world
The Würth Group is represented in more than 80 countries of the world
and has about 64,000 employees on the payroll worldwide. About 30,000 of
them are employed sales representatives working in the field. Now as
before, Germany as the domestic market is a focus market of the Würth
Group, with the parent company remaining the nucleus of many further
developments of the international group of companies.
Nevertheless, Würth remains a family business at its heart of hearts.
Since March 2006, the Chairwoman of the Advisory Board of the Würth
Group has been Bettina Würth, the daughter of Reinhold and Carmen Würth.
Robert Friedmann as Chairman of the Central Managing Board of the Würth
Group is at the head of the management hierarchy. Other members of the
Central Managing Board are Peter Zürn, Uwe Hohlfeld and Joachim
Kaltmaier.
More than just screws
Over the years, the screw dealer of the past soon developed into the
specialist in assembly technology. The product range of the Würth Line
in the field of assembly and fastening material meanwhile comprises more
than 100,000 items.
The Würth sales force mainly distributes these products to craft
enterprises and increasingly also to the medium-sized and large
industry. Today Würth enjoys the trust and confidence of more than three
million customers worldwide.
However, Würth has come to be much more than a company trading in
screws, screw accessories, anchors, tools or chemical products only.
Besides this classical product range, the Allied Companies of the Würth
Group which operate under their own company name, have been selling
protective clothing, products for DIY shops, material for electrical
installations, electronic components (such as circuit boards) and
financial services for many years.
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