Finder (company)

Finder GmbH, Finder SpA
legal form	GmbH, SpA
founding	1954 (Italy), 1983 (Germany)
Seat	Trebur, Rhine-Main area Almese, Turin
management	Alexander Krutzk (CEO) ; Berthold Schlechtriemen-Proske (COO) ; Peter Kr needk Jun.; ; Renato Giordanino ( CEO );
Number of employees	1300
sales	256.6 million euros
Branch	Electrical engineering, smart home systems , research & development
Website	www.findernet.com

Finder Germany headquarters in Trebur-Astheim

Finder is a German-Italian electrical engineering group with headquarters in Almese, Turin and Trebur ( Rhine-Main area ). With over 12,500 products, Finder is one of the largest European manufacturers and developers of electronic components and technologies.

Company structure and market position

The company has a global sales network in more than 100 countries and has five production sites in Italy, France and Spain. Finder's product range includes more than 12,500 products. Finder is the European market leader in the relay sector and is managed by the founding family Kr needk in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Denmark and the USA. The founding family Giordanino controls the other global satellite companies with the Italian parent company .

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Company history

The Finder story begins in 1954, when Piero Giordanino, founder of the Italian Finder SpA, patented an impulse relay that enabled simplified wiring in the building installation. From the manufacture of devices for the installation sector, Giordanino founded the first factory in Almese, Turin, in 1965. From 1966 onwards, electromechanical relays were produced here (60 series), which are also used in the industrial sector. Further factory openings followed in Sanfront, Cuneo (1974), St. Jean de Maurienne, France (1991) and finally the purchase of Eichhoff Relés SL in Valencia, Spain in 2001. The Italian parent company has its own production facilities in Western Europe.

In parallel to the growth in production, Peter Kreutek founded Finder GmbH in Rüsselsheim in 1983, which was to expand the sales network in Europe and the USA in the following years. Further branches in Italy and Europe, the USA, South and Central America and Asia followed by 2010.

In 2003 a new logistics center was put into operation in Trebur-Astheim. In 2006, the Italian parent company Finder SpA also moved into a new logistics center in Almese, Turin , which was followed by the commissioning of a new electronics production facility on the site of the Italian headquarters in May 2012. In September 2009 the German headquarters in Rüsselsheim moved to a new address in Trebur-Astheim after the generation change in management from Peter Kreutek to his son Alexander Kreutek.

Finder now has more than 80 agencies worldwide.

The founders Peter Krützek Senior and Piero Giordanino in 2008.

Corporate management

Finder Germany with satellite companies

Alexander Krützek, CEO , Managing Partner (2008)
Berthold Schlechtriemen-Proske, COO (from January 1, 2012)
Dirk Rauscher, Key Account / Sales Management (2011)

In July 2008 Alexander Krutzk took over the management of Finder in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Denmark. Krutzk was, together with his brother Peter Kreutek Junior, integrated into the group for two decades. Alexander Krutzk has been the company's managing director since 1994. With effect from July 25, 2008, her father Peter Kreutek Senior withdrew as much as possible from the company's operational business.

Effective January 1, 2012, Helmut Rosenmann is handing over his management staff as authorized signatory to Berthold Schlechtriemen-Proske, who has previously been in charge of sales for the whole of Germany and has also been responsible for the European satellite companies since spring 2011. In terms of organization, Rosenmann took part in the establishment of the branches in the Netherlands, Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary. This change of staff also went hand in hand with Dirk Rauscher's transfer to sales management.

Products

Finder's product range includes:

Railway applications
Photovoltaic applications
Plug-in / print relays
Industrial relays
Coupling relay
Relay with forcibly guided contacts
Timing relay
Monitoring relay
Power supplies
Surge arrester (SPD)
Impulse switch
Twilight switch
motion detector
Staircase light automats
Timers
Electronic dimmers
Installation contactors
Thermostats

Intelligent home automation and smart home systems

Presentation of the Yesly product family at the Light + Building trade fair 2018

In 2018 Finder introduced the Yesly product family. This is a product series with which intelligent home automation and controls can be implemented by combining a special multifunction relay and modern device communication technologies. The target groups of the Yesly series include in particular private end users who want to equip themselves fully, partially or gradually with smart home systems in their homes. The Yesly systems can be controlled locally via the Bluetooth Low Energy button, via Amazon Alexa and Google Home voice control, as well as via the iOS and Android compatible app and internet gateway.

Finder presence in public

In 2010 Finder was a partner of Horst Zuse , son of the inventor of the first digital computer, Konrad Zuse , in his project to replicate the world's first binary digital computer ( Zuse Z3 ). Zuse's project required 600 coupling relays for the arithmetic unit, 1,800 relays for the memory and 100 time relays. In 2009 Alexander and Peter Krützek gave their approval for the project. The digital computer was finally completed after a year-long construction phase using over 2500 Finder modules. After completion, it was presented to the public at the Hanover Fair in spring 2011.