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Dear customers, partners, and employees of the GEZE Group,
"GEZE in motion since 1863." If we look back at our company's 150 year history, our jubilee motto stands for 150 years of motion. GEZE sets people in motion. GEZE sets doors and windows in motion with its products. We are proud to be able to say that GEZE also set in motion the technology with which we have had a significant influence on building technology for one and a half centuries. We would like to use our company's 150th jubilee primarily to take a look to to the future. Let me use the words of Albert Einstein, who once said: "The future interests me more than the past because that is where I intend to live."
Remaining constantly in motion, continually reviewing our actions and our results, is an important prerequisite for realising our vision „to be number one when it comes to the confidence of our customers for system solutions for doors and windows“.
In view of this, we are continuously developing our expertise and our resources. Intensive research and development activities and systematic innovation management help us to always offer you, our customers, the most efficient, effective and innovative solutions. Innovation efforts with a long term focus, the maximum utility value and very high quality standards of our products, system expertise and unique customer support have brought us continuous growth. We will continue to put our trust in this model for success.
Our employees set these standards for themselves every day. This is why our customers and partners are always able to rely on innovative, first-class products, the best possible advice and maximum support. 150 years of loyalty testify to this. Today, I would like to sincerely offer you, the customers, partners and employees of the GEZE Group throughout the world, my heartfelt thanks for this.
We will remain in motion for you!
Brigitte Vöster-Alber
Greeting from the Minister-President of the State of Baden-Wurttemberg
It is with great pride that the Leonberg-based family company GEZE can look back, in 2013, on a 150-year history, in which the company developed into one of the world‘s leading providers for door, window and safety technology. On behalf of the state government, I would like to congratulate the management and all the employees on this success story.
Efficient manufacturing processes, the conservation of natural resources as well as the funding of projects in art, culture, science and in the social sector characterise the company‘s mission statement just as much as innovation and inventiveness, competence and creativity. GEZE has recognised that successful economic activity is based both on financial profits and on corporate sustainability. Therefore, the company attaches great importance to its social commitment, its social responsibility and its guidelines on environmental policy. GEZE is one of the „hidden champions“ so typical of Baden-Württemberg - a medium-sized company that, with its special technologies and solutions, is the world‘s leading provider in its field and thus a flagship for Baden-Württemberg as an industrial location.
Although the company was established in 1863 and operates on a global level with its 30 subsidiaries and around 2500 employees, it is still expressly committed to Baden-Wurttemberg. As the company gives people training and further training, preserves and creates jobs, attaches great importance to long-term economic success instead of a short-term maximisation of profits, and strengthens local economic structures, it contributes to the economic success of our state.
At the same time, there is also a fixed place for research and development: forward-looking solutions and products are produced in the company‘s own technology centre. To sum up: GEZE demonstrates why the medium-sized companies in Baden-Württemberg are rightly labelled the backbone of our economy.
I wish the company management and all the employees of GEZE GmbH a happy jubilee and all the best and every success for the future.
Winfried Kretschmann
Minister-President of the State of Baden-Württemberg
150 years of GEZE - one and a half centuries in which a lot has happened! With our jubilee newspaper, we would like to give you an insight into the world of GEZE of the past, the present and the future. Read the greeting from the Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg, find out about outstanding GEZE managing directors and gain insights into GEZE's corporate culture. These and many other subjects await you when you read the GEZE jubilee newsletter!
We would like to give you a gift for our company's 150th jubilee! Spread throughout the whole year, you can become the winner of high-quality GEZE prizes every quarter in a separate prize draw. All that you have to do is answer the relevant competition question correctly and send off the form to participate. Read the jubilee microsite carefully; then you will not have any problems with answering the question!
At the end of the jubilee year, there will also be a prize draw to win one of 10 GEZE surprise packages, all the people who have participated in the competition throughout the world will be entered.
Click here to find the competition question !
In the third quarter of 2013, you can win one of 100 funny GEZE trucks in miniature edition. Simply select the correct answer and, with a bit of luck, one of the little GEZE trucks will soon belong to you!
The competition question for this is:
When was the manufacturing site in Boxberg-Schweigern founded?
Employees of the GEZE Group and their relatives shall be excluded from participation in the competition. Every participant who sends in the form for participation shall automatically take part in the prize draw.
All the winners shall be informed in April, July and October 2013, as well as in January 2014. The prizes shall be sent free of charge. The winners shall not be entitled to a cash payment of the prize or a replacement prize. Any recourse to the courts shall be excluded.
GEZE attaches particular importance to the protection of personal data and always treats it confidentially. Data entered is only collected, processed or used within the framework of the legal requirements, in compliance with the provisions of the German Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the German Telemedia Act (TMG), and protected using extensive technical and organisational measures.
The specified personal data are collected, processed and used by GEZE exclusively for internal purposes, e.g. for the competition. The data are not transferred to third parties for advertising purposes.
You have the right to free information regarding the data stored about you, as well as the right to correct, delete and block your personal data. If you have any concerns about this or further questions relating to the collection, processing and use of your personal data, please contact GEZE GmbH, Reinhold-Vöster-Strasse 21-29, 71229 Leonberg or send an e-mail to marketing-services.de(at)geze.com.
Participants in the competition will receive the free GEZE newsletter automatically via e-mail. It informs you regularly about news concerning our group of companies. If you are no longer interested in receiving the newsletter, you can unsubscribe at any time.
With our new GEZE image film, we would like to take you into the international world of GEZE. Discover our comprehensive product range for yourself. As one of the leading providers of building technology, see the varied fields of application and the aesthetic design of our products, through the impressive reference buildings from across the world. Also, feel and experience the spirit and corporate culture of a globally active family company that looks back on a 150-year history and is looking towards the future full of anticipation.
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Not every company is able to celebrate its 150th anniversary. The trust that our customers have in us and the commitment of our staff play the biggest part in this. We wanted to give special expression to this high regard in which we are held! We threw an impressive family jubilee party which provided all types of fun for the more than 6,000 people attending. We have recorded the most memorable impressions of our great birthday party for you here in a nice photo gallery.
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It is no longer possible to imagine life without advertising. At GEZE too, advertising posters and advertisements were used at an early stage, in order to draw attention to the benefits of GEZE products. The examples that can be seen in the slide show remind us of how much the manner of advertising a product has changed over time. Go with us on a journey through time through the world of GEZE advertising!
Our company's jubilee fills us with pride and is a cause for celebration. At the same time, we would also like to remember those who are dependent on help from all of us. For this reason, we are supporting a series of charity projects throughout the jubilee year.
You can help us in this way!
Jubilees and birthdays are usually an occasion for a variety of gifts. However we request that all our customers and suppliers who would like to give us a gift would instead give us a present in the form of a donation to the "Olgäle-Stiftung für das kranke Kind e.V." (Olgäle foundation for sick children).
"Donations instead of Gifts" is our first charity campaign.
We are just as pleased to receive the donations of our employees. In addition, GEZE will double the total amount of donations achieved by the end of the jubilee year!
We appreciate your support and thank you for your commitment!
Of course, you will receive a receipt for your donation.
If you would like to support our fund-raising campaign, please transfer your donation to the following account:
"Olgäle-Stiftung für das kranke Kind e.V."
Account 22 66 550 at BW Bank Stuttgart,
Sort code 600 501 01 Reference "GEZE 150"
The „Olgäle-Stiftung für das kranke Kind e.V.“ assists the children‘s hospital of the Olga hospital in Stuttgart with providing medical care thanks to state-of-the-art equipment and facilities and a child-friendly atmosphere for the young patients. The children‘s hospital of the Olga hospital is one of the most modern paediatric centres in Europe and is therefore frequented by patients from a wide cross-regional catchment area. GEZE has provided financial support to the charitable "Olgäle Foundation" for many years. The generous donations that have now reached six figures are used to equip the highly specialised children's hospital ("Olgäle") of the Olga hospital in Stuttgart.
You can find further information on the Olgäle Foundation here http://www.olgaele-stiftung.de
GEZE supports children throughout the world by making a donation of over € 57,000
Children are our future – this maxim has been actively followed in GEZE's day-to-day operations for 150 years now. In the year which marks our jubilee we would like to look forward to the future and focus our attention on the "key players" in it – children. Today too many children around the world are living in poverty. If they are to be given the prospect of a better future they need our support and financial assistance.
In 2013 GEZE is sponsoring 150 children from all around the world. Working together with the international children's charity, Plan International, GEZE would like to use the sponsorships as a way of bringing about lasting improvements in the living conditions of the children and young people, and of their families and local communities. In addition, GEZE is donating a further 600 euros each month to a girls fund which Plan International has set up in order to promote equality of opportunity in the upbringing of girls and boys.
As one of the oldest children's charities, Plan International works in 50 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America on a non-religious and apolitical basis. In the development assistance field Plan funds sustainable and child-focused self-help projects, chiefly via sponsorships and using individual donations and public funds. Girls are provided with special support so that they can be given the same opportunities as boys. Plan Germany runs over 300,000 child sponsorships, which means that it reaches about three million people in the programme areas.
In order to bring about lasting improvements in the living conditions of the children and young people and of their families and local communities, Plan concentrates on the areas of education, health, child protection, participation, the provision of microfinance and disaster relief.
Plan Germany draws attention to the situation of girls throughout the world through its "Because I am a Girl" campaign, of which the famous actress Senta Berger is the patron. (www.plan-deutschland.de)
150 years GEZE are a reason to celebrate, not only in Germany. Numerous international subsidiaries have already celebrated the GEZE jubilee with their employees and families, customers and partners.
We have created a colorful video that shows in an impressive way how GEZE moves people worldwide. Watch our film and travel through the GEZE world in its jubilee year. Enjoy the video!
GEZE IN MOTION SINCE 1863
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Three entrepreneurs create the foundations for today‘s GEZE GmbH: the master turner Georg Friedrich Vöster with the turnery „Vöster & Co.“ in Göppingen and the mechanic Max Wessinger in conjunction with the businessman Friedrich Carl Bauer with the hardware company „Friedrich Carl Bauer“ in Stuttgart-Feuerbach. The two lines of the company‘s heritage do not (yet) know one another - it is a few years before they come together.
A new shareholder brings fresh air to Vereinigte Baubeschlägfabrik Gretsch & Co. GmbH. Reinhold Vöster joins the company, which has been called „Vereinigte Baubeschlagfabriken Gretsch & Co. GmbH“ since 1914. Under his technical management, the product range is modernised and extended. Fittings for folding and sliding windows, ventilation systems for factory buildings, smoke extraction systems and fittings for lifting, folding and double-action doors as well as for garage gates are now also produced.
350 employees celebrate the 75th jubilee of the company - by now a recognised medium-sized company. Three product lines have emerged: hardware, transport fittings and winter sports products. Exports are already an important success factor in the 1930’s.
Georg Amann, Sales Manager, with Reinhold Vöster (left) with a "Huba" prototype.
Apprentice workshop and new gate in Leonberg
The most important message for the 100th jubilee: success remains true to the company. Walter Vöster dies unexpectedly in April at the age of 48. But life has to go on. At the jubilee celebration in October, the foundations of the new administration building are laid. Under the management of Reinhold Vöster, „Gretsch & Co“ has become a modern company with almost 900 employees. The 60s mark the start of the era of automatic door drives.
In the middle of the 1980s, GEZE launches a complete innovation from the field of safety technology onto the market. With the new emergency exit system, GEZE satisfies the constantly growing requirement for safety and is once again one of the technological pioneers on the market. To this day, the emergency exit system is being developed into a comprehensive system solution, with the GEZE door control units as the "brain".
The company‘s 125th jubilee - now with 850 employees and new subsidiaries in Switzerland, France, Italy and Great Britain, GEZE is on a course of international expansion. The door closer TS 5000 with guide rail sets standards. In the middle of the 1980s, GEZE, with its new emergency exit system, launches a complete innovation in the field of safety technology onto the market.
Vetroslide is awarded the "red dot" seal of approval for premium design quality by an expert panel in the Architecture and Interior Design product category of the "product design" discipline of the competition.
GEZE develops and creates innovative product solutions for the building technology. Due to the high quality standards, GEZE products guarantee comfort and safety and contribute to worldwide innovative building concepts.
The Vetroslide is awarded the "red dot" seal of approval for premium design quality by an expert panel in the Architecture and Interior Design product category of the "product design" discipline of the competition.
GEZE is one of the world‘s market leaders and is represented in 110 countries in the world with 2500 employees, 30 subsidiaries and a comprehensive sales and service network.
The door closer GEZE TS 5000 ECline with guide rail has been awarded with the grade „good“.
GEZE products satisfy the criteria of „barrier-free use“ and „universal design“: the swing door drive GEZE ECturn is granted an award by the German Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics.
Sustainability is value-enhancing. Due to an increasing scarcity of resources and increasing energy costs, sustainable building and the energy-efficient operation of buildings are becoming a substantial requirement. GEZE products have a positive impact on an LEED or DGNB building certification.
Environmental aspects are taken into consideration consistently. The improvement of the ecology of the products, of the production processes and facilities is a permanent task. GEZE's environmental management was successfully certified in accordance with the globally valid standard DIN EN ISO 14001. Our own environmental protection officer constantly provides new solutions for reducing energy consumption and dealing with limited resources responsibly.
As a system provider, GEZE produces products and system solutions from one source that combine individual requirements in one system and open and close doors and windows in a coordinated manner.
Slimchain is the star of the new chain drive generation, which is introduced in 2012. The strengths of the all-rounder are its wide range of applications, its "slim" design, intelligent control and networking options. With its modern control technology, the Slimchain can also be optimally tailored to different requirements in the case of smoke and heat extraction and for building ventilation.
GEZE in motion since 1863. Thank you for 150 years of confidence. We will remain in motion for you. With commitment and passion.
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GEZE GmbH
P.O. Box 1363
D-71226 Leonberg
House address
Reinhold-Vöster-str. 21-29
D-71229 Leonberg
Management: Brigitte Vöster-Alber (chairwoman)
Marc Alber
Andrea-Alexander Alber
Florian Birkenmayer
Chairman of the supervisor board:
Professor Dr. Dr. Ulli Arnold
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Fax: +49/7152/203-310
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