ELV electronics

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ELV electronics

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legal form AG
founding 1978
Seat Empty
management Heinz-Gerhard Redeker (chairman) , Helga Redeker
Number of employees approx. 1200 worldwide
Branch Mail order
Website www.elv.de

The ELV Elektronik AG is an electronic Bioshop and publisher with headquarters in Leer . The company with over 1000 employees is active in the fields of home automation and consumer electronics.

The abbreviation ELV originally stood for El ektronik V succumbed empty, since 2019, the company uses the slogan ELV - E lectronic L calibrates V erständlich.

Since its foundation in 1978, ELV has established itself as an electronics mail order company on the German market. The online offer includes more than 10,000 products. The main catalog, published annually, with a circulation of around 500,000 copies, contains around 800 pages of electronic products. Due to the concept, this was awarded the "Best Catalog 2014" award at Neocom 2014 in the Business-to-Consumer (B2C) area. In addition, numerous seasonal and special catalogs and mailings are published.

ELV is also the publisher of "ELVjournal", the electronics specialist magazine with the highest circulation in Germany with 30,000 copies sold and 20,000 distributed. In total, the group of companies issues more than 5 million printed matter per year.

As a manufacturer of home control and energy management system solutions, the subsidiary eQ-3 offers more than 200 product types, which are marketed through sales partners, system integrators, trade channels, energy suppliers and as OEM products. Also in other consumer electronics sectors, such as B. weather stations, eQ-3 is one of the leading manufacturers.

The "Homematic" and "Homematic IP" brands include products in the field of wireless home automation from heating thermostats, lighting control and security technology to door lock drives, window actuators, remote controls, gateways and house control units through to software products from partners. There is also wired building technology.

The design and development of the products takes place exclusively in the headquarters in Leer.

Production takes place in the 100% group-owned plant in Zhuhai, southern China.

history

The company was originally founded in 1978 by Heinz-Gerhard Redeker as Elektronik Literatur Verlag GmbH and is still the publisher of the electronics trade journal with the highest circulation in Germany, ELVjournal .

In 1991, in addition to the ELVjournal, the first ELV catalog was published, which had 164 pages and also contained merchandise .

In 1992, the ELV-TimeMaster personnel time recording system was launched on the market as an in-house development and has since been sold in German-speaking countries. The hardware is also developed and produced in-house.

In 2000, Elektronik Literatur Verlag GmbH was converted into a stock corporation and was given the current name ELV Elektronik AG .

In 2017, the browser-based time recording Timemaster WEB was published, for which own hardware is also developed and produced.

eQ-3

The eQ-3 AG is a 2007 out gründetes from ELV Elektronik AG German technology company in the field of smart home , with headquarters in Leer .

Group of companies

  • ELV Elektronik AG - sales via mail order (retail and wholesale), online shop, development, marketing (Leer, Lower Saxony)
  • ELV Verlag - Publisher ELV Journal (Leer, Lower Saxony)
  • eQ-3 AG - Sales for major customers (Leer, Lower Saxony)
  • eQ-3 Entwicklung GmbH - Development for major customers, industrial products (Leer, Lower Saxony)
  • ELV Elektronik AG CH - Sales Switzerland (Itingen, Switzerland)
  • ELV Elektronik AG AT - Sales Austria (Salzburg, Austria)
  • eQ-3 Ltd. - Sales worldwide including USA (Hong Kong)
  • eQ-3 electronics Co Ltd. - Production (Zhuhai, China)

See also

Web links

Commons : ELV Elektronik  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fachzeitungen.de: Verlags-Vita ELV Elektronik AG , accessed on June 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ fachzeitungen.de: ELV Journal , accessed on June 12, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b elv.de: About us , accessed on June 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ eQ-3 press release of September 10, 2019: Homematic IP again receives the coveted AV test certificate at IFA , accessed on September 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ software-leer.de: location brochure Leer , p. 18, accessed on June 12, 2019 (PDF).
  6. ↑ www.elv-zeiterfassung.de Time recording ELV-TimeMaster
  7. ↑ www.timemaster.de Time recording Timemaster WEB

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