Siemens

For more than 150 years, the name of Siemens for which the customer is at the centre of all is synonymous with innovative spirit and openness to the world. Today, Siemens is a global company specializing in electrical equipment and electronics, leader in many technologies innovative and this almost worldwide. The appliances are always a central field of activity of the company. From the outset, skills and the entrepreneurial desire were in the service of well-being and living at home. It is in Berlin on October 1, 1847 as Werner von Siemens (1816-1892), knighted in 1888, and Johann Georg Halske founded the company Telegraphen-Bau-Anstalt of Siemens & Halske. Today Siemens, present in 189 countries, employs 379 000 people worldwide and recorded a backlog that has exceeded the threshold of 100 billion DM.