Gretsch-Unitas

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Gretsch-Unitas GmbH

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founding 1907
Seat Ditzingen , Germany
management Julius von Resch, Michael von Resch
Number of employees 4150
sales EUR 620 million
Website www.gu.com
As of December 31, 2017

Administration building in Ditzingen

The Gretsch-Unitas group of companies is a provider of window and door technology, automatic entrance and building management systems . The GU group consists of over 50 production and sales companies in 35 countries. It manufactures and sells building fittings, locks and locking systems under the GU, BKS and FERCO brands . The range offers security and hardware solutions for the private home, for barrier-free construction, for doors in escape and rescue routes through to individual facade solutions for objects. The family-run GU group has its headquarters in Ditzingen .

history

Gretsch-Unitas goes back to the company “Hermann Gretsch GmbH” founded by Viktor Gretsch in 1907 and the “UNITAS Metallwarenfabrik” in Stuttgart-Feuerbach. Viktor Gretsch made Johann Maus a partner and managing director in 1910. In 1938 there were first considerations to move the company headquarters from Feuerbach to Ditzingen. But they were not implemented until 1953. In 1973 the new administration building on Johann-Maus-Strasse in Ditzingen was inaugurated.

Julius Maus von Resch and Hans Maus developed the company further internationally. Through acquisitions, the company's own range of - in some cases patented - building fittings has been continuously expanded over the past decades. The most important acquisitions include the French fittings manufacturer Ferco SAS (1975), the German lock manufacturer BKS (1983) and most recently the automatic door manufacturer ATS GmbH (today: "GU Automatic GmbH") (2001). Today (2013) the group of companies is completely owned by the von Resch family and is managed by the brothers Julius and Michael von Resch.

Locations in Germany

  • Ditzingen : Headquarters of the group of companies, administrative headquarters and production site for fittings, window and door technology
  • Velbert : Headquarters of the subsidiary BKS GmbH, production of locks and locking systems
  • Rietberg : Headquarters of the subsidiary GU Automatic GmbH Production site for automatic entrance systems
  • Berlin : Seat of the subsidiary ela-soft GmbH

Products

GU
  • Window technology: Tilt & Turn fittings, parallel slide (tilt) fittings, lift & slide fittings, reversible fittings, skylight, RWA and NSHEV opening systems, window fittings
  • Door technology: multi-point locks, door closers, electric door openers, thresholds, door fittings
UCS
  • Mortise locks
  • Locking systems
  • Escape door systems
  • access control
GU Automatic
  • Sliding doors: linear systems, telescopic, angled and circular sliding doors
  • Revolving doors: manual and automatic systems, all-glass and large-capacity systems
  • Sliding glass walls: manual and automatic sliding glass walls
  • Separation of persons: turnstiles and locks
  • Swing door drives: electromechanical and electrohydraulic systems and hold-open systems / overhead door closers

service

  • Building management systems (GEMOS) and access control systems (GEMOS Access) are developed and customized via the subsidiary "ela-soft GmbH"
  • About 100 service technicians throughout Germany maintain and repair automatic door systems, revolving doors, revolving door drives, hold-open systems, SHEVs, overhead door closers and isolation systems via the subsidiary GU Automatic GmbH. There is also an emergency service available around the clock.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2017 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ history

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Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 10.3 "  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 8.3"  E