Berendsohn AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1833, 1948 |
| Seat | Hamburg , Germany |
| management | Astrid Schulte |
| Number of employees | 900 (2015) |
| sales | 48.78 million euros (2015). |
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Promotional clothing industry |
| Website | www.berendsohn.com |
The berendsohn is a company in the promotional products market and boasting an office in Hamburg and sales markets in fifteen European countries. In addition to promotional items and gifts, the product portfolio includes digital services, creative serives, business equipment and corporate clothing. According to the company, the annual turnover is around 49 million euros. In total, there are contacts with over 100,000 business customers. Berendsohn AG sells its products directly to other companies with its own sales force. The majority of customers come from business relationships with small and medium-sized companies. Berendsohn employs around 900 people in the entire group. Advertising, packaging and shipping have been carried out in the central production facility in Brüsewitz since 2013. Subsidiaries are INTERWEGA international Gesellschaft für Debitorenmanagement mbH, Hamburg, INTERWEGA International Incassoservice BV, Rotterdam, Kleine & Jockers GmbH, Hamburg and Lynka SP. zoo in Krakow.
history
The company was founded in 1833 as BS Berendsohn by Bernhard Salomon Berendsohn . In the second half of the 19th century, mainly high-quality copperplate engravings, known as Hamburgensien , were sold to customers. After the Second World War , the Holocaust survivor Günther Berendsohn (born January 11, 1916 in Hamburg; † September 20, 1992), imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp from 1944 to 1945, re-founded the company. From then on, the business area was the sale of promotional items and gifts. Within ten years, the entrepreneur built Berendsohn from a one-man business to a 50-employee company with an annual turnover of 5 million DM. In the course of the company's expansion, new sales markets were created in France, Italy, Norway, Austria, Sweden and Switzerland in 1964. Denmark, Great Britain, Croatia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia were added to the following to this day. In 2007 Berendsohn expanded its business area to include the sale of employee clothing. In 2014 Berendsohn AG took over the Polish supplier Lynka from Kraków, a company specializing in the finishing of clothing. Kleine & Jockers GmbH, an e-commerce company from Hamburg specializing in promotional items, has been majority owned by Berendsohn AG since 2015.
Design awards
The freelance designers and Berendsohn AG have received several international awards for their products since 1999. In 1999 the IMPULS corkscrew received the iF Design Award. In the following year, the BLUE POINT key fob received the red dot design award . In 2002 the salt and pepper shaker combination SALZ & PFEFFER, a propeller-like structure with a magnetic holder for joining two spice containers, and the champagne bottle cap FOCUS were awarded the iF Design Award. The latter also received the red dot design award in the same year. The ICE AZURE glass vase also won the red dot design award in 2004. Recent design award winners are the LICHTSTRECKE candlestick, a candle lying horizontally in a metal block (2005), the DR.FEEL GOOD massage device, plastic handle with massage nipples (2006), the VINO wine carafe with an asymmetrically arranged spout, the salt and pepper shaker combination WINNER, two oversized “Mensch ärgere dich nicht” (2007), which all received the iF Design Award, as well as the thermometer / clock combination SOWAS (2010), which was awarded by the RedDot. In 2013 the memory game Binus, which was created in cooperation with WWF and shows endangered animal species, received the red dot design award. The SLIM writing set also received the German Design Award in 2013. In the same year, both products received the “Gute Gestaltung” award from the German Designer Club.
Web links
- Official German website of Berendsohn AG, promotional items
- Official international website of Berendsohn AG
Individual evidence
- ↑ Company | Berendsohn AG. (No longer available online.) In: www.berendsohn.de. Archived from the original on April 2, 2016 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Berendsohn Aktiengesellschaft Hamburg: Consolidated financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013. Berendsohn Aktiengesellschaft Hamburg, March 24, 2015, accessed on April 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Internationality | Berendsohn AG. (No longer available online.) In: www.berendsohn.de. Archived from the original on April 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Berendsohn Aktiengesellschaft Hamburg: Consolidated financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013. Berendsohn Aktiengesellschaft Hamburg, March 24, 2015, accessed on April 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Company | Berendsohn AG. (No longer available online.) In: www.berendsohn.de. Archived from the original on April 2, 2016 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Company history | Berendsohn AG. (No longer available online.) In: www.berendsohn.de. Archived from the original on April 3, 2016 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
- ^ Promotional items Hamburg »Kleine & Jockers GmbH. In: www.kleine-jockers.de. Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Press | Berendsohn AG. (No longer available online.) In: www.berendsohn.de. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Awards | Berendsohn AG. (No longer available online.) In: www.berendsohn.de. Archived from the original on April 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 .