Fissler (company)

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Fissler GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1845
Seat Idar-Oberstein , Rhineland-Palatinate
management Jacob Oesterhaab (Management), Friederike Fissler-Pechtl (Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board)
Number of employees 814 worldwide (February 2016)
sales 250 million euros (February 2016)
Branch Cookware manufacturer
Website www.fissler.com

Fissler high-bay warehouse in Hoppstädten-Weiersbach

The Fissler GmbH , based in Idar-Oberstein is a German cookware maker. Fissler became internationally known for the production of the pressure cooker with patented, multi-stage cooking valve from 1953.

Companies

The company is an affiliate of Vesta GmbH (also based in Idar-Oberstein) and is present in over 70 countries around the world with its own subsidiaries or sales partners. With 538 employees in Germany and 765 worldwide, Fissler achieved sales revenue of 206 million euros in 2012. AMC Alfa Metalcraft Corporation Handelsgesellschaft based in Bingen am Rhein , which is active in the direct sales of cookware, also operates as an affiliated company of Vesta .

The company shares in Fissler are family owned. The chairman of the supervisory board is Friederike Fissler-Pechtl, who is also the managing director of Vesta in Idar-Oberstein and the chairman of the board of the Swiss- based AMC International Alfa Metalcraft Corporation AG . She took over the two offices from her father Harald Fissler , the former managing director and chairman of the supervisory board of the Fissler Group and great-grandson of the company founder.

history

Carl Philipp Fissler, around 1845
Goulash Cannon (1892)

The company was founded in Idar-Oberstein as an installation business by Carl Philipp Fissler in 1845 . In 1892 the company wrote German cultural history with the invention of a mobile field kitchen , the so-called “ goulash cannon ”. Just three years later, starting in 1895, an improved version of the “goulash cannon” with several kettles was able to prepare full menus instead of one- pot dishes. However, since patent protection was no longer observed at home and abroad during the First World War , many replicas had ensured that Fissler's patent was not an economic success.

As early as 1900, Fissler was using aluminum as a raw material in the manufacture of household and kitchen appliances. The production of special dishes for electric cookers in large kitchens began in 1928. In 1930, German passenger ships such as the Europa and the Bremen were equipped with new special large kitchen dishes. The kitchens of the Olympic Village in Berlin also received cookware from the manufacturer in 1936.

In 1953, under the name "vitavit", Fissler developed the first pressure cooker with a patented, multi-stage cooking valve. Since 1956, Fissler has been the first German manufacturer to produce pans with a PTFE coating (colloquially known as "Teflon pans"). The plastic coating prevents the food from sticking and makes cleaning easier. The first pressure frying pan followed in 1969.

Since 1999 Fissler has been selling more and more on the world market. At the beginning of 2014, more than 70 percent of the products sold went abroad. The main foreign markets at the beginning of 2014 were South Korea and China . Fissler products are status symbols in Korea and China. The price level is higher in Asia than in Germany.

A "milestone in the company's recent history" was the commissioning of a 7 million euro new press line for stainless steel cookware in the Neubrücke plant in the summer of 2013, which can deep-draw 350 to 450 metal plates ("round blanks") per hour in the shape of a pot . A pressure of 520 tons is exerted on each metal blank.

The company has already received many design prizes for its product design , including the Fissler brand itself.

Product range

Fissler's product portfolio includes pots and ranges of pots, pans , pressure cookers , roasting pans , woks , kitchen gadgets , knives, kettles and special cookware .

Product photos

literature

  • Heinrich Jutz: 100 years of Fissler. Mainz Publishing House, Mainz 1950.
  • Rudolf Fissler KG (ed.): 125 years of Fissler. Idar-Oberstein 1970.
  • Hans Peter Brandt: 150 years of Fissler GmbH. In: Local calendar of the district of Birkenfeld , ISSN  0174-4631 , 1996, pp. 147–150.
  • Olaf Preuß: Fissler, Kochgeräte, Idar-Oberstein , in: ders., Made in Germany. The strengths of the German economy. Econ , Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-430-17434-1 , pp. 62f.

Movie

  • High-tech on the stove - the Fissler company in Idar-Oberstein. Documentary, Germany, 2015, 28:50 min., Script and direction: Wolfgang Dürr, production: SWR , series: made in Südwest , first broadcast: July 15, 2015 on SWR, synopsis by ARD , online video.

Web links

Commons : Fissler  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Jacob Oesterhaab has been the new CEO in the Fissler family company since early 2020. Family Businesses in Focus (FiFo) , May 8, 2020, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  2. a b Press release: Financial year 2015. The “Fissler way”: from a German medium-sized company to an international branded goods company. ( Memento of March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: fissler.de , February 12, 2016, (PDF; 331 kB).
  3. a b c Diana Merry. Shrill luxury. The Fissler brand is a symbol of luxury and lifestyle in Asia. In Germany, however, competitor WMF is ahead. But the opportunity to change that has never been greater. In: Handelsblatt , No. 127 of July 7, 2014, pp. 20–21, beginning of the article .
  4. a b c Entries in the electronic Federal Gazette
  5. Entry by AMC International Alfa Metalcraft Corporation AG ( memento of October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) in the commercial register of the Canton of Zug
  6. Rich Germans: Invasion of the bumblebees. In: Business magazine Bilanz , December 2003 edition.
  7. Axel Redmer: Invention of the Fissler company: Goulash cannon began its triumphal march in 1914. In: Rhein-Zeitung , December 16, 2014.
  8. Alexander Jung: Globalization. German woks for Chinese chefs. In: Der Spiegel , March 1, 2014, No. 10, p. 71.
  9. Gabi Vogt: Fissler: 7 million euros for a new press line in the Neubrücke plant (Birkenfeld district). In: Rhein-Zeitung , June 13, 2013.
  10. cf. Documentary: High-tech on the stove - The Fissler company in Idar-Oberstein. In: SWR , July 15, 2015, from 22nd min.
  11. Press release: Fissler - company facts (as of February 2016). In: fissler.de , February 2016.