Dyes & Co.
The company Dyes & Co. was a furniture factory and a brand especially for office furniture .
history
The company was founded in 1901 by the brothers Otto-Ferdinand and Gottfried Hermann Dyes and Viktor Schmidt in Hanover . The furniture factory on Podbielskistraße initially produced wooden beds and mattress frames in addition to office furniture with the help of the newly introduced electric power drive. Above all, however, desks , filing cabinets and up to 3000 standing desks per year were sold to well-known German companies. The company applied for a first patent on "Model No. 6" of the roller blind desk .
In 1934 the buildings in Hanover were sold to the Frederiksen brothers. They moved with the now Dyes & Co. successor F. & H. Frederiksen Möbelfabrik Bad Münder a / D to Bad Münder am Deister.
After Dyes & Co.'s successor F. & H. Frederiksen Möbelfabrik Bad Münder a / D moved , the business in Bad Münder was taken over by the Bad Münder commercial bank in 1937/38 . After an initially rapid increase in sales with 74 employees, the beginning of the Second World War resulted in a reduction in the workforce to just 40 employees. After the end of the war, Martin Schmidt took in war refugees , some of whom lived on the factory premises.
In 1953, a company pension from the age of 65 was introduced. The 1950s were characterized by the production of the so-called “Deisterroll cupboards” with blinds as well as desks and trapezoidal tables.
After the company's own fire brigade was founded in 1962 , a major fire in 1967 caused damage of around 2.5 million marks .
In 1970 a new company logo was introduced with the image-text train dyes organizational office furniture since 1901 . Two years later, the machine and boiler system from the 1920s was replaced by a three-pass high-pressure steam boiler. In 1973 a fully automatic filter and conveyor system followed. In the following year a utility model was registered for the first desk with a lowered tabletop for a keyboard .
After the company's 75th anniversary, the company was sold to DLW-Aktiengesellschaft in 1978 . In 1984 the production of "BS 3000" started, four years later in 1988/89 a computer-controlled high-bay warehouse went into operation. As a result, sales and the export share grew . After the completion of a production hall for custom-made products and the Connect table production in 1991, the first in-house exhibition was held in 1995. In 1997 a permanent exhibition hall was added to the buildings.
In 1999, Dyes was sold by DLW Aktiengesellschaft to the American company Haworth, Inc. , making it one of the three largest office furniture manufacturers in the world. In the same year "id - Idea Management" was introduced and the entire corporate design was revised: In the Haworth dyes logo , the small orange square between the letters d and y of dyes was the new trademark .
New product lines and brand programs were introduced in quick succession;
- from 1994 OPTIONAL ;
- from 1996 UNICO , SPIRIT and the C1 container program ;
- from 1997 the flexible, process-oriented office furniture system POS ;
- from 1998 the POINT table system, the STEP conference table system and the C2 container system ;
- from 2000 POS elegance , the mobile office companion SHUTTLE , the FRAMELIGHT lighting system and scooter .
In 2000 the company moved into a newly built communication building , and the Haworth joint stand at " ORGATEC 2000" was one of the most visited at the fair . In 2001 Haworth dyes achieved sales of DM 211 million. Today (as of June 2012) the name and brand are no longer used. Today's Haworth GmbH in Bad Münder had a turnover of € 121 million in 2018 with 282 employees.
Awards
- Industrial Forum Design Hanover
- 1998: Good design 1998
- 2001: Red Dot for the POS elegance program
literature
- Matthias Biester, Klaus Vohn-Fortagne: Chairs and more. The Deister-Süntel-Tal , the cradle of the North German chair industry , with contributions by Heyno Garbe and Heinrich Lewinski, publication for the exhibition Der Stuhlbau im Sünteltal in 2000 in Bad Münder, ed. from Heimatbund Lower Saxony , local group Bad Münder, in the series of publications of the Museum Bad Münder , ISBN 3-00-006845-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Wolfgang Leonhardt : "Hannoversche Stories". Reports from different city districts , Working Group District History List, 1st edition 2009/2010, Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8391-5437-3 , p. 150; online through google books
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Presentation ( PDF document ) History: 100 years of Dyes - the living factory / 100 years of Dyes - the products from Haworth.com , Bad Münder, by email on June 22, 2012
- ↑ 2018 annual financial statements of Haworth GmbH in the Federal Gazette
Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 36.6 ″ N , 9 ° 28 ′ 16.1 ″ E