ART AND CULTURE
”Making the customer’s life easier” – that‘s what we are working
for. No customer is like the other. Each customer has special needs.
We cater to our customer‘s individual demands. This is what Würth
can do. A sales organization of more than 32,000 sales representatives worldwide guarantees expert advice and fast deliveries for
our craft and industry customers. A network of 1,460 branch offices
in Germany and abroad covers the customers‘ immediate needs. The
motto ”To each customer their own Würth” stands for the modular
system logistics that can be tailored to the individual operations of
our customers. A wide spectrum of order and storage systems completes this range of services. As a consequence, it goes without
saying that the quality of the over 100,000 products Würth is selling
has to be perfect. This is reflected in the guiding principle of Würth‘s
Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall
Under the title ”Mexicanidad”, Kunsthalle Würth brings together
more than 300 works by artists of such different a style as Frida
Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Toledo and Adolfo
Riestra, trying to get to the bottom of their national identity. The exhibition is complemented by Mexican finds of the pre-Columbian
era and original Mexican Ofrenda objects. As Frida Kahlo‘s clothes
were legendary and, moreover, an artistic expression of her personal
interpretation of ”Mexicanidad”, some of her magnificent huipiles
(sleeveless blouses) and Nickolas Muray‘s portrait photos of Kahlo,
showing her in her most beautiful costumes, as well as approximately
150 photographs of her own famous, rediscovered photo collection
round out the exhibition.
Paolo Zanon with his locksmith shop in Venice has been a Würth customer since 1985.
Sales representative Adriano Lucchese visits him once a week in the City of Canals.
Numerous international loans such as the two self-portraits of artist Frida Kahlo complement
the exhibition ”Mexicanidad” at the art gallery Kunsthalle Würth in Schwäbisch Hall.
quality management: ”Würth is quality – everywhere and every
time”. No trouble at the building site caused by missing or defective
tools – work is simply easier. Over three million customers from
trade and industry believe in us.
Museum Würth, Künzelsau
Robert Jacobsen, one of the most important representatives of abstract
art after 1945, is one of the central artistic personalities featured in the
Würth Collection. The Danish artist, who died in 1993, had gained
international fame especially with his iron sculptures. His sculptural
oeuvre culminated in the unique ensemble Jacobsen created for the
main square in front of the administrative building of Adolf Würth
GmbH & Co. KG in 1992. On the occasion of the artist‘s 100th
birthday, Museum Würth is dedicating a comprehensive retrospective
exhibition to him and his oeuvre.
Würth Group
Headquarters: Reinhold-Würth-Straße12–17, 74653 Künzelsau, Germany
Secondary Headquarters: Hauptstrasse 78, 9400 Rorschach, Switzerland
[email protected] | www.wuerth.com
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FACTS
AND FIGURES
The Würth Group 2012
1GFP–SC–LA–3‘–07/12
THE STRATEGY
1st half of 2012
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Sales of the first six months
as of 30 June in million EUR
4,288
5,034
4,155
3,873
4,000
4,783
4,560
3,760
2,741
2,000
1,000
2003
2004
entire Würth Group
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Würth Group Germany
Annual sales
9,699
in million EUR
8,489
8,816
7,748
8,000
The operating result of the Würth Group amounted to EUR 205
million in the same period (first half of 2011: EUR 184 million). The
Group expects adequate operating result growth throughout the year.
7,522
6,914
5,360
5,453
4,000
2,000
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Employees in the first six months
as of June 30
65,444 65,945
65,158
60,564
60,000
45,000
41,110
45,332
49,527
The Würth Group closed the first half of 2012 with total sales of
EUR 5.0 billion, which corresponds to growth of 5.2 percent. The
slower year-over-year sales growth in the first half of the year can be
attributed to the poor economic conditions in many European countries.
Compared to the first half of 2011, the German companies increased
their sales volume by 4.5 percent to EUR 2.2 billion (2011: EUR 2.1
billion). The companies outside Germany grew by 5.9 percent generating sales of EUR 2.8 billion (2011: EUR 2.7 billion). The American
companies of the Würth Group developed well. The South American
region stepped up sales by 7.6 percent; the companies in North
America grew above average by 22.9 percent to EUR 480 million
in the first six months of the year 2012.
8,633
6,203
6,000
THE CORPORATE GROUP
3,449
3,091
3,000
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
IN THE 1ST HALF OF 2012
In the first half of 2012, the number of employees in the Würth
Group was further expanded in correlation with the economic conditions in the individual regions, in order to make further growth possible.
Compared to the same period last year, the Group hired an additional 501 employees (+0.8 percent). The Würth Group has a total of
65,945 employees on the payroll (as of 30 June 2012), 32,061 of
which work in the sales force. In Germany, the Würth Group has a total
of 19,424 employees, while the Würth companies abroad report the
number of 46,521 employees.
58,593 59,577
15,000
Employees,
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Global trade with fastening and assembly materials is the
core business of the Würth Group. The classic product range, which
is distributed through an international network of Würth Line companies, comprises over 100,000 products for craft and industry:
from screws, screw accessories and anchors, to tools, chemical-technical products and personal protective equipment. The Allied Companies of the Würth Group are trading or production companies
operating mostly in similar or diversified business fields. They sell
products for markets related to the Group‘s traditional core business
such as products for DIY stores, material for electrical installations,
electronic components (e.g. circuit boards) and financial services.
Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG welcomes its 500,000th
customer: Würth does not wait for the customers to come to them,
but approaches them actively. Würth is thus always one step closer
to the customer. As a result, Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG managed
to win PS Rohrleitungs-Metallbau GmbH in Neustadt am Rübenberge as its 500,000th customer.
The Würth Group acquires two chemical companies, Dinol
GmbH based in Lügde/Germany, and Diffutherm B.V. based in
Bergeijk/Netherlands. These acquisitions complement the strategic
orientation of the Group in the field of construction chemicals and
in the automotive retrofitting and accessories market which is of
particular importance for the Würth Group.
53,006
30,000
2003
Building-up the Würth Group is the life‘s work of entrepreneur
Prof. Dr. h. c. mult. Reinhold Würth. The Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Würth Group‘s Family Trusts turned the hardware wholesale business, which was founded by his father in 1945,
into today‘s Würth Group. By now, the world market leader in the
trade with assembly and fastening technology is represented by
more than 400 companies in over 80 countries.
2011
2012
For more detailed information on the Würth Group and the business divisions,
please refer to our website www.wuerth.com
of which are sales representatives
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