Sahm (company)
| Sahm GmbH & Co. KG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1900 |
| Seat | Höhr-Grenzhausen |
| management | Michael Sahm, Paul Goller |
| Number of employees | approx. 514 |
| sales | € 74.5 million (2013) |
| Branch | Drinking glasses |
| Website | www.sahm.de |
| As of December 31, 2013 | |
Sahm is a manufacturer of glass and decor design as well as the decoration of drinking glasses based in Höhr-Grenzhausen in the Westerwald . The company was founded in 1900 and, with 80 million decorated glasses and annual sales of 74.5 million euros in 2013, is one of the world's leading suppliers of glasses for the beverage industry. The company is managed by Michael Sahm and Paul Goller and employs around 514 people in Höhr-Grenzhausen, Prague , Bratislava , Kiev , Toledo (Ohio) and Langfang ( China ). Sahm specializes in particular in the design of branded glasses for breweries and other beverage manufacturers.
history
In 1900 Emil Sahm founded the company as a pewter foundry and produced lids for beer mugs. Eight years after the company was founded, Sahm began painting beer glasses . The company survived the First World War largely unscathed. Emil Sahm's brother, Eugen Sahm, went into business for himself in 1919 as a stoneware dealer and also developed his company into a glass refiner, today's RASTAL GmbH & Co. KG , based in the same town. Cooperation was discussed several times, but not implemented.
Sahm employed around 90 people in 1939. During the Second World War , production practically came to a standstill. In 1945, production was resumed with just eight employees, with the management being expanded by the founder Emil Sahm, his son Kurt Sahm and son-in-law Willy Völkl. A department was added to the glass processing company, which exclusively painted beer glasses and other glasses individually in order to meet the growing demand from breweries for beer glasses for collectors' purposes. In 1970 Wilfried Geissler-Sahm, Kurt Sahm's son-in-law, took over management.
After German reunification and the opening of the markets in Central and Eastern Europe , the company founded a subsidiary in the Czech Republic and branches in Ukraine and Slovakia in 1991 . In 2007 a decoration factory in Langfang ( China ) was put into operation. In October 2013, another production site for the USA and Canada in Toledo (Ohio) went into operation.
Glass and decor design
Some products from Sahm were in collaboration with international designers such as Michael Boehm , Matteo Thun , Rony Plesl and Jutta Hohn Garden Feistel designed for some with design awards such as the Good Design Award , the Red Dot Design Award and the IF Product Design Award , honored were.
Together with world champion sommelier Markus Del Monego , Sahm develops glasses that are specially tailored to the taste profile of beers.
Cultural promotion activities
Sahm is committed to various projects as a sponsor. The company supports the World Beer Cup , which is held every two years in the United States . The company also sponsors the beer sommelier world championship , which took place in Munich in 2013.
literature
- Ralf Magagnoli: 108 years of SAHM - glasses for brands . The Chronicle 1900–2008. 1st edition Höhr-Grenzhausen: Verlag der Fachbuchhandlung, 2008, ISBN 978-3-926075-12-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Consolidated financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013 of Sahm GmbH & Co KG, Höhr-Grenzhausen, in the electronic Federal Gazette
- ^ Beverage Manager, Global Edition, January 2011, page 20
- ^ Die Welt, October 25, 2006, special supplement Beer Report
- ↑ Magagnoli, Ralf. 108 years of SAHM - glasses for brands. The Chronicle 1900–2008. 1st edition Höhr-Grenzhausen: Verlag der Fachbuchhandlung, 2008, p. 25. ISBN 978-3-926075-12-3
- ↑ "Our name is under the calibration mark" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 24, 2010.
- ↑ Magagnoli, Ralf. 108 years of SAHM - glasses for brands. The Chronicle 1900–2008. 1st edition Höhr-Grenzhausen: Verlag der Fachbuchhandlung, 2008, p. 76 f. ISBN 978-3-926075-12-3
- ^ Website of the Good Design Awards (accessed on March 18, 2013) ( Memento from August 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ iF International Forum Design Hannover (accessed on 19 March 2013)
- ↑ Mercurio website (accessed on March 18, 2013) ( Memento from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Die Welt, special edition Day of German Beer, April 23, 2008
- ↑ Worldbeercup website (accessed on March 18, 2013)
- ^ Website of the beer sommeliers (accessed on March 18, 2013) ( Memento from December 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )