Vorwerk 4.92

Vorwerk & Co. KG was founded in Wuppertal in 1883. During the course of its 133-year history, the company, originally a carpet factory, has grown into a highly diversified, global corporate group. Vorwerk nevertheless remains a family enterprise to this day.

Vorwerk’s core business is the direct selling of high-quality products. The Vorwerk product range includes household appliances (the Kobold vacuum cleaner, the Thermomix kitchen appliance, Twercs Tools, products from Lux Asia Pacific) and JAFRA cosmetics. The akf banking group, the Vorwerk carpet factories and the HECTAS Group as an associate company all belong to the Vorwerk entrepreneurial family. Superior products and a special customer approach are something all divisions have in common, and what makes Vorwerk so special.

Vorwerk provides jobs for 603,000 people worldwide, of whom 591,000 work as self-employed advisers and over 12,000 as employees. Vorwerk generated a Group sales totaling more than 2,8 billion euros in 2014 and operates in 70 countries.