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SUCCESS IN THE THIRD GENERATION

Endress+Hauser looks back on seven eventful decades

ndress+Hauser celebrates its 70th The company started with the sale of innovative electronic level sensors that filled
anniversary this year. The firm a market niche. It wasn’t long before Endress began to develop instruments on his
Ethat started out selling innovative own. In 1955 he registered his first patent with what is now known as the Swiss Federal
electronic level sensors now contributes Institute for Intellectual Property. Production took place in rented accommodation,
to the supply, nutrition and health of with employees distributed throughout several buildings that they teasingly, but
people and supports customers in major affectionately, referred to as the ‘United Hut Works’.
challenges such as digitalisation and
decarbonisation. Opening new markets step by step
In 1957 the company began trading under the name Endress+Hauser – and experienced
History in the making strong growth, continuing to carve out new niches. Georg H Endress compared his
It was an unlikely pair that came approach to ‘rolling out the dough’. He continuously expanded the portfolio by adding
together in 1953 to create a company: new measurement principles and pursued business opportunities in other countries.
on one side, the Swiss engineer Georg The first foreign subsidiary was created in 1960 in the Netherlands. Other sales centres
H Endress, just 29, and on the other followed almost every year.
Ludwig Hauser, 58, a German and head The company expanded its offerings through acquisitions and start-ups.
of a cooperative bank. But the two Measurement value recording, liquid analysis and flow measurement engineering were
complemented each other perfectly. added as new fields of activity to the mix, followed later by pressure and temperature
The vision and drive of one was as measurement technologies. Endress+Hauser evolved into a full-range provider for the
important for success as the prudence process industries. By this time, the Hauser era was already history. The Endress family
and experience of the other. became the sole shareholder in 1975.

From the back room into the Global structures, universal culture
world Klaus Endress took over the reins of the Group from his father in 1995. Over the
L Hauser KG opened for business on following years he expanded the business beyond process instrumentation into
1 February. The young company was services and automation solutions. He also tackled the challenges of doing business in
headquartered in Hauser’s apartment a globalized world. After establishing sales centers around the world, production also
in Lörrach in Germany, financed went global; modern IT ensured interconnection.
with modest start-up capital of 2000 For 19 years Klaus Endress put his personal stamp not only on the Group but also
Deutsche Marks. The company was on the corporate culture. He recognized loyalty and responsibility as core values in the
named after Ludwig Hauser’s wife, Luise, relationships between customers, employees and shareholders. Not least, the future of
who is listed in the commercial register the family business was close to his heart. He drove forward work on a family charter
as the shareholder. in which the shareholder family stated that Endress+Hauser should remain a successful

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