Pestalozzi + Co
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1763 |
| Seat | Dietikon , Switzerland |
| management | Matthias Pestalozzi ( CEO and Board of Directors (Switzerland) ) |
| Number of employees | 309 (December 31, 2013) |
| sales | 163 million CHF (Pestalozzi + Co AG, Gabs AG, 2013) |
| Branch | Metal and steel trade |
| Website | www.pestalozzi.com |
The Pestalozzi AG is a Swiss trading company based in Dietikon and united under the name of Pestalozzi group the divisions Steel Technology and home automation as well as the subsidiaries Gabs AG in the field of building envelope and the logistics company Trans Stahl AG. It supplies the construction- related trade and the metalworking industry with semi- finished and finished products . The group of companies employs 309 people and 22 trainees and generated sales of 163 million Swiss francs in 2013 (December 31, 2013).
Areas of activity
The Pestalozzi Group comprises the two divisions steel technology and building technology as well as the two subsidiaries Gabs AG and Transstahl AG .
Steel technology division
The steel technology division supplies the metalworking industry with bright and free-cutting steels, stainless steels, structural steels and steel tubes as well as non-ferrous metals. For metal workers, the range includes profile systems, fittings systems, railing systems, gate systems as well as shaped and round tubes.
Building technology division
The building services division supplies plumbing and heating installers with pipes, products and systems for drinking water supply and drainage, for heat distribution and release, and with ventilation products. The range also includes products for gas and water supply.
Gabs AG
Gabs AG supplies plumbers, roofers, facade builders and insulating plumbing with semi-finished products and metals, building sheets, profiled panels, pitched and flat roof systems, lightning protection systems, facade products, ornaments and tools.
Transstahl AG
As a transport company, Transstahl AG carries out transports for steel, building technology, plumbing and plastic products. It has a fleet of 65 vehicles with a payload of up to 26 tons.
Products and services
Prefabrication
- Cutting long material
- Machining of shaped tubes and profile steel tubes on a machining center
- Chamfering and sharpening of round material
- Cross-cutting and longitudinal cutting as well as rolling over metal sheets
- Profiling of sheet metal for windows, roofs and facades
logistics
- Daily delivery to customers in Switzerland as part of a 24-hour service
- Mobile ordering system via smartphone for building technology customers
- E-shop
- e-procurement solutions for steel products
- Delivery in the Kanban system or other systems in supply chain management
- custom packaging and warehousing
history
In the history of the Pestalozzi company, three families were involved in the successive generations: the Wiser, Burckhardt and Pestalozzi families. In the first three generations of Wiser, the business was passed on from father to son and continued. In the fourth generation, Rudolf Alexander Pestalozzi took over as the son-in-law and gave it the name that is still valid today. In the sixth generation, Fritz Burckhardt became a partner in the company through family ties. The Burckhardt and Pestalozzi families were involved in the business as partners for over three generations, until in 2000 Dieter Burckhardt sold his 50% of the shares to his partner Dietrich Pestalozzi.
For a long time, 1788 was considered the year the Pestalozzi company was founded. The oldest document to date comes from this year, namely a warehouse inventory and the transfer of the business from Johann Heinrich Wiser to his son Johann David Wiser, under whose name the company ran for three generations. When archiving historical documents on the company's history, the Zurich City Archives transcribed this document “Inventory and handover of the action S [e] pt [em] b [e] r. 1788 ”and investigated the question of the identity of the father Johann Heinrich Wiser. It was only after looking through other sources in the State Archives of the Canton of Zurich that an older testimony came to light: In the periodical “Monthly news of some oddities”, a baptismal notice from 1763 states that “Mr. Joh. Heinrich Wiser, iron merchant on Badergass”, had to go to St. Peter had a daughter named Anna Elisabetha baptized. That is why Pestalozzi celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2013.
Johann Heinrich Wiser-Schalch (1709–1792) worked as an accountant in an ironworks near Eberfingen in the southern Black Forest. When the ironworks closed, he made use of his citizenship in Zurich and began trading iron goods in the Limmatstadt. In 1763 he was named an iron dealer in a baptism certificate from one of his daughters. This is the oldest known written source and therefore the company celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2013.
In 1788, Johann David Wiser set up his “Action” in a “Lehenladen” (so-called “Swallow's Nest”) attached to the Fraumünster outer wall. The initial inventory taken over from the father consisted of iron, steel and hardware. He also took over a large part of the customer base and soon knew how to expand the customer base through the successful trade in, among other things, iron.
After completing a commercial training and a stay in Italy, Heinrich Wiser-Balber joined his father's business as an employee in 1807. From 1827 he ran it - for a few years together with his stepbrother David - as a partner at his father's side. Heinrich Wiser bought several properties at the Münsterhof exhibition center and was thus able to expand business activities.
Rudolf Alexander Pestalozzi-Wiser was the “first Pestalozzi” to join his father-in-law's company in 1850, where he worked as a partner until 1884. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), Switzerland received many important orders, which greatly stimulated business activity, which had been rather idle for several years before.
Friedrich Otto Pestalozzi joined his parents' business on January 1, 1871, in which his older brother Ernst had been active since 1861 and had already completed his apprenticeship. In 1878 both brothers became partners in the company that still bears the name of the founder. In 1891 the two of them changed the name to «Gebr. Pestalozzi ». In the same year, the company moved from the “Schwalbennest” to the Münsterhof 12 “zur Farb” property of the former Ott dye works (office and sales warehouse) and a warehouse was set up in Zurich-Wollishofen.
In addition to Rudolf Pestalozzi, who started working in his father's company in 1905, another branch of the family came into the business through family connections with Fritz Burckhardt. With the appointment of the two partners in 1911, the company name had to be changed again. From this year on, the company was called “Pestalozzi & Co”. In 1917, the property in Wollishofen, where the company handled the warehouse business until 1960, was expanded. The property in Wollishofen was an important location for the company for many years.
In 1941, Andres Burckhardt and 1949, Heinrich Pestalozzi, became the 7th generation of shareholders. The relocation of the company to Dietikon (1981) by this generation resulted in an enormous business boom. In 1979 the company was converted from a collective to a joint stock company with the name «Pestalozzi + Co AG».
From 1977 Dietrich Pestalozzi and Dieter Burckhardt were involved in the company. In 1988, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary (it was still the founding date in 1788), the two, as representatives of the 8th generation, took over overall responsibility for the Pestalozzi Group. The 1980s were marked by the advance of electronics and the transition to the IT era. After a period of diversification and the acquisition of various subsidiaries, a phase of consolidation followed in 1990. The company subsequently developed into a specialized trading and service company that has been growing again since 2002. In 2000, Dieter Burckhardt sold his stake to Dietrich Pestalozzi, but retained an advisory role on the board of directors.
Matthias Pestalozzi was elected to the Group's board of directors in 2009. He joined the company in 2011. As a representative of what is now the ninth generation of the company, he took over overall responsibility for corporate management on October 1, 2014, while Dietrich Pestalozzi remains on the board of directors for the time being.
literature
- Hans Pestalozzi-Keyser: History of the Pestalozzi Family . Self-published, Zurich 1958 ( online version )
- Robert Dünki: The transfer of business from Heinrich Wiser (1709–1792) to his son David Wiser (1759–1840) in 1788. In: Annual Report 2007/2008, Zurich City Archives, 2009. P. 109–160.
Festschriften
- 150 years of iron trading in the picture of the history of a Zurich family business. Festschrift Pestalozzi & Co. Zurich, 1938.
- 175 years of iron. Festschrift Pestalozzi & Co. Zurich, 1963.
- Pestalozzi + Co AG. 1788-1988. Anniversary font for the 200th anniversary of our family business. Dietikon, 1988.
- 250 years of Pestalozzi. 9 generations of family tradition 1763 - 2013. Anniversary brochure from Pestalozzi + Co AG on the occasion of the 250th anniversary. Dietikon, 2013.
Web links
- Pestalozzi + Co AG website
- Swiss radio of March 22, 2013: Pestalozzi & Co .: The company that has been built on for 250 years
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press portal: Pestalozzi employees celebrate their 250th anniversary
- ^ FO Pestalozzi et al .: 150 years of the iron trade. Festschrift Pestalozzi & Co, Zurich, 1938.
- ↑ Annual report 2007/2008, Zurich City Archives, 2009. pp. 109–160.
- ↑ "Monthly News Einicher oddities collected in Zurich, and published, in MDCCLXIII. Available from Joh.Kaspar Ziegler, Buchdruker, in Zurich, 1764. ”p. 8, Zurich State Archives.
- ↑ Pestalozzi + Co AG anniversary brochure on the occasion of the 250th anniversary.
- ^ Robert Dünki: the transfer of business from Heinrich Wiser (1709–1792) to his son David Wiser (1759–1840) in 1788. In: Annual Report 2007/2008, Zurich City Archives, 2009, p. 109.
- ^ David Friedrich Wiser (1802–1878), New Year's paper of the Natural Research Society in Zurich for 1918
- ^ Pestalozzi + Co AG: Anniversary publication 2013