Fritz Hansen (Company)
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1872 |
| Seat | Allerød |
| management | Jacob Holm, CEO |
| Number of employees | 279 |
| sales | 88 million euros in 2008 |
| Branch | Furniture |
| Website | www.fritzhansen.com |
The Fritz Hansen A / S , also known as the Republic of Fritz Hansen known is a Danish furniture manufacturer , the Danish by the production of designs designers such as Arne Jacobsen , Hans J. Wegener or Børge Mogensen became known. The company's headquarters are in Allerød .
history
The company was established in 1872 by the master carpenter Fritz Hansen (1847-1902) as a carpentry workshop in Copenhagen in the context of the Amalienborg castle founded. In 1896 a production facility with a sawmill was built north of Copenhagen in Lillerød . When Hansen's son Christian Edvard (* 1874; † 1954) took over the company in 1899, it had 50 employees. Under the leadership of Christian E. Hansen, the company developed from a craft business to an industrial company. In 1915 the company produced the first steam-bent wooden chair in Denmark.
Christian E. Hansen's two sons, Poul Fritz Hansen and Søren Christian Hansen, worked in the company from 1928. Poul Fritz Hansen in particular began to work together with the architecture professor Kaare Klint and the architect Arne Jacobsen in 1934 . Klint had Hansen build shelving systems and wall units. The collaboration with Jacobsen resulted in a chair that he used for the restaurant of the Bellevue Theater in Klampenborg. From then on, Jacobsen developed all of his seating furniture, such as the Ameise , Grand Prix and Series 7 chairs , as well as the Egg and Swan armchairs - both works for his total work of art, SAS Royal Hotel - with the help of Hansen. Jacobsen gave the company a license to produce his furniture designs. Hans J. Wegner and Børge Mogensen also worked with Fritz Hansen in the 1940s. Wegner developed the Chinastuhl in 1944 and Morgensen in 1945 the Spokeback sofa .
In the 1960s, production was relocated to Allerød , north of Copenhagen . The company was bought by Skandinavisk Holding in 1979. A collaboration with McDonald’s ended in 2007 when McDonald’s used not only original Fritz Hansen furniture but also unlicensed copies in its restaurants in England.
Company data
In 2008 Fritz Hansen A / S had a total of 279 employees. In 2008 it generated annual sales of around EUR 88 million. In terms of sales markets, Scandinavia is ahead of Europe and Asia with 49 percent. Seven percent of the products go to North America. In 2008, armchairs and couches made up 38 percent of the products in front of chairs (36 percent) and tables (16 percent).
Web links
- Official website
- History of Fritz Hansen A / S ( Microsoft Word , English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2008 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.1 MB) fritzhansen.com
- ^ A Seating Problem at McDonald's. Time , October 11, 2007 (accessed March 14, 2015)
