The handle company is an enterprise with head office in Germany, which is active on three strategic business fields: Wash and cleaning agent, Kosmetik and hygiene as well as adhesives, sealing materials and surface technique.

The enterprise

The head office from handle is in Duesseldorf getting living, which is enterprise in 125 countries in the world represented. From over 51.000 the coworkers approximately 80 per cent is active outside of Germany. The enterprise guiding principle is A fire like A Friend.

Handle celebrates 2006 its firm anniversary. The anniversary year proclaimed handles for the "year of the innovations".

Divisions

The three strategic business fields are arranged within handle again into four divisions:

• Wash/cleaning agent
• Kosmetik/hygiene
• Adhesives for consumers and craftsmen as well as
• Handle Technologies

Handle is active with marks such as Persil, Dixan, Vernel and Bref since the foundation of a firm in the range wash/cleaning agent. The product range reaches from universal detergents over special detergents and up to bath and Glasreinigern.Der company accommodates some marks within the range Kosmetikmarkt (among other things companies, Vison, dia. the mine, taffeta, Schwarzkopf and Dep) and manufactures products begun from hair coloring means, hair wash and hair preservative agents, over skin creams, soap products, hygiene products up to perfumes.

For industrielle customer supplies handles of adhesives in particular in the packing sector, in addition, for do-it-yourself enthusiasts. Well-known marks are here: Pritt, Pattex, duck, Loctites, Ceresit and Dufix.

The products of handle Technologies (industrial adhesives and sealing material, surface treatments and construction adhesives) are used in a multiplicity of industries - among other things within the ranges air and space travel, automotive manufacture and electronics. The most well-known marks are Liofol, Teroson and Loctites.

Handle Smile program

In the handle Smile program handle bundles all commitments for the society, going beyond the business activity. It covers promotion projects within the ranges Community Involvement, donation management and Corporate Volunteering/"With initiative ".

In the With initiative (with one another in the team) the enterprise promotes above all social projects of public interest, with which coworkers and pensioners of handle engage themselves honorary. The number of the freiwilligen aids rose from 786 in the year 2004 to 966 in the year 2005. Handle promoted 2005 altogether 245 international With Kinderprojekte in 70 countries as well as 721 further With projects.

Enterprise history

• 1876 Fritz handle create the detergent factory handle & Cie in Aachen.
• For 1878 with handle' s bleach soda begins the enterprise history of handle. Removal after Duesseldorf.
• The first sales office opens 1886 handles abroad in Vienna.
• 1900 commencement of production in Duesseldorf getting living.
• The first hair washing powder brings 1903 out the company Schwarzkopf (subsidiary of handle since 1995).
• 1907 Persil is according to handle the "first automatic detergent of the world".
• 1922 beginning of adhesive production.
• 1929 handles brings the first Industriekleber on the market.
• 1945 expropriation convenient in the Soviet zone of occupation of the Persil work in Genthin.
• 1948 Poly Color, a liquid hair coloring means is introduced.
• 1954 introduction on the market of the fine soap company
• 1969 Pritt, the first sticking pin, comes on the market.
• 1975 handles limited partnership on shares (KGaA) becomes.
• 1985 handles goes into Germany to the stock exchange.
• 1990 buy-back 1945 expropriated Persil work in Genthin.
• Handle makes 1997 the assumption of Loctites according to own data "specialist for adhesives", leading world-wide.
• 1999 separating the division of chemistry products and legal under the company name Cognis.
• 2001 Cognis, which former division of chemistry products, sold to a group of financial investors.
• "Handle carries out 2002 handles - A fire like A Friend" and with new Corporate Design for the first time a world-wide uniform appearance of the company under the Slogan.
• 2004 the acquisition of the dials corporation, Scottsdale/Arizona, is the so far largest acquisition in firm history.

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Related links

• Handle homepage
• Homepage handle Smile program
• Trend of prices of the share

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