Progress (household goods manufacturer)
The Progress electrical appliances GmbH is a former electrical appliances Bauer , who in Botnang ( Stuttgart was established).
Company history
Progress started operations in 1921 after Wilhelm Mauz, Paul Pfeiffer and Ernst Faber founded the family company Mauz & Pfeiffer Elektro-Apparatebau KG . Household vacuum cleaners and floor polishing machines were manufactured .
The first wheeled vacuum cleaner was introduced under the brand name Progress in 1926. In 1938 the 100,000 ran. Vacuum cleaner off the line. At the beginning of the war , regular production was banned in order to support the arms industry instead. Towards the end of the war, the production facility was largely destroyed. In 1948 the company changed the company to Progressverkauf GmbH from Mauz & Pfeiffer and founded the specialist pump technology department.
In 1956 the company showed itself to be innovative when it first introduced paper filter bags across Germany and brought its first all-plastic vacuum cleaner onto the market with the Nova model . Business operations were subsequently expanded and new locations were added. In 1971 there were production facilities in Maulbronn and Nürtingen-Zizishausen in addition to Stuttgart .
After considerable economic bottlenecks, Progress was incorporated into the Swedish company Electrolux in 1981 .
