ART AND CULTURE
Making the customer‘s life easier. That‘s exactly the point.
When customers can fully concentrate on their work, Würth has
done a good job. With more than 400 branch offices, Adolf Würth
GmbH & Co. KG is closer to the customer than any competitor.
Our aim is that no customer should need more than 10 minutes to
the next branch office. Customers can cover their immediate demand
in approximately 1,500 branch offices all over the world. Service
technicians and fitters can buy our products directly on their way
to their customers or the construction site. The new Würth Express
Service guarantees same-day deliveries. The world’s largest sales
organization with 30,000 employed field sales representatives
Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall
The Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, one of the
most significant museums for classic modern art, presents around 200
of their most prominent works from the years 1900–1945 at Kunsthalle
Würth – among them major works by Picasso, Klee, Kandinsky, Munch,
Beckmann, Kirchner, Grosz or Dix. The exhibition is based on a highly
successful presentation of the collection at Nationalgalerie in Berlin
which showcased the history of modern art in a spectacularly new way.
In addition to the highlights of the collection, the exhibition features
further masterpieces that add to and round off conventional notions
associated with this era characterized by political and artistic events.
Pick-by-voice: The new Würth Logistics Center West uses a pick-by-voice system.
Orders are wirelessly transmitted to the picker by the inventory management system.
The current exhibition at Kunsthalle Würth in Schwäbisch Hall shows works from ­the
Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
guarantees sound advice and fast deliveries to the customer. We
want to be available for our customers at any time. 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 quality management: “Würth is quality –
everywhere and every time”. No trouble at the job site due to missing
or defective tools – work is simply easier. Over three million tradespeople and industrial customers put their faith in us.
Forum Würth Rorschach, Switzerland
For years, the collecting couple Carmen and Reinhold Würth have
advocated the social integration of people with mental or physical
disabilities. More than 200 works of these special artists have already
been added to the Würth Collection. For the first time, 50 paintings
and drawings from the Würth Collection are put in dialog with about
50 sculptures and objects from the John Collection at Forum Würth in
Rorschach. The acquisition of the eastern Swiss art collection of Mina
and Josef John by the Museum im Lagerhaus in St. Gallen, Foundation
for Swiss Naive Art and Art Brut, was supported by Würth.
Würth Group
Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG, Reinhold-Würth-Straße 12–17, 74653 Künzelsau, Germany
[email protected] | www.wuerth.com
FACTS
AND FIGURES
The Würth Group 2014
1GFP–SC–LA–4‘–07/14 © by Würth Group, Künzelsau
STRATEGY
1st half of 2014
Sales of the first six months
as of 30 June, in million EUR
4,783
5,034
4,881
5,020
4,155
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
IN THE 1ST HALF OF 2014
4,000
The Würth Group closed the first half of 2014 with total sales of
EUR 5,020 million. This corresponds to year-over-year growth of 2.8
percent. Growth could again be generated in all problematic countries with the exception of Italy. There are clear signs that Spain, for
instance, has bottomed out as they succeeded in generating a sales
plus of almost nine percent.
3,000
2,000
1,000
2010
Entire Würth Group
2011
2012
2013
Operating result before taxes in the first six months
200
196
235
184
205
205
2012
2013
150
100
The operating result of the Würth Group has increased consider­
ably. At EUR 235 million, the operating result is up 14.6 percent
over last year (previous year: EUR 205 million). The Group expects
an adequate operating result development until the end of 2014.
The number of employees increased to a total of 64,891 in the
first half of 2014, which corresponds to growth of 2.1 percent
(December 2013: 63,571). The Würth Group has 29,635 employees
working in the sales force worldwide. In Germany, the Würth Group
has a total of 19,744 employees, while the Würth companies abroad
account for 45,147 employees.
50
2010
2011
2014
For more detailed information on the Würth Group and its business units, please
refer to our website www.wuerth.com.
Employees in the first six months
as of June 30
60,000
59,577
65,444 65,945
64,064 64,891
45,000
30,000
15,000
2010
Employees
2011
2012
thereof sales representatives
2013
Building-up the Würth Group is the life’s work of the 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, from
a two-man business into today’s Würth Group. Today, the world
market leader in the trade with assembly and fastening materials is
represented by more than 400 companies in over 80 countries.
2014
Würth Group Germany
as of 30 June, in million EUR
THE CORPORATE GROUP
2014
Würth administration building in Künzelsau-Gaisbach
The global trade with fastening and assembly materials
is the core business of the Würth Group. Würth’s classic product
range, which is distributed through an international network of
Würth Line companies, comprises more than 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.
New IT Technology Center of the Würth Group and the Würth
Elektronik Group at the Waldzimmern industrial park in Niedernhall. Together with the data centers in Gaisbach and Waldenburg,
the IT Technology Center forms the so-called “Hohenloher Ring”
­(Hohenlohe Circle) that combines the three data centers in a
“real-time backup cluster”. This step is an important milestone as
it ensures high data security for the Group. The foundation stone
was laid on 30 May 2014. The completion of the building is
planned for the third quarter of 2015.
Multi-channel sales at Würth The order behavior of our
customers has changed in the digital age. They are calling for, and
indeed using, the various opportunities offered by the Internet. This
has prompted Würth to focus on multi-channel sales: Products
can be ordered by fax, phone, through the internet and personally,
that is at a branch office or with our sales representatives.