The Geberit group with headquarters in Jona (Canton of St.Gallen) is the European market leader in sanitary technology. Geberit has a global presence with representatives in 41 countries and some 6,000 employees worldwide. Since 1874, the company founded by Caspar Melchior Albert Gebert has been a pioneer in the industry,
constantly setting new trends with its innovative system solutions in the field of sanitary systems and piping systems. The company’s largest production site after its headquarters in Jona, is in Pfullendorf (district of Sigmaringen) with 1,500 employees. The sanitary systems product range comprises four product lines: installation
systems, cisterns and mechanisms, faucets and flushing systems, as well as waste fittings and traps. The piping systems product range encompasses two product lines: building drainage systems and supply systems.
As early as the beginning of the 20th century, the “Phoenix,” the first wooden cistern system in the world developed by Geberit, enabled houses to be fitted with toilets, bringing about an astonishing improvement to hygienic conditions and thus the quality of life at the time. Leo Gebert is also considered the inventor of the valve-based toilet flushing mechanism that is still used today. This spirit of innovation continues to define the company.
For decades, Geberit has proved that long-term business success is compatible with environmentally-friendly and socially responsible policies. The company was rewarded for its efforts in 2010 by coming tenth among the 100 most sustainable companies worldwide at the World Economic Forum in Davos, an accolade awarded once a year. The magazine Wirtschaftswoche even nominated Geberit as the most sustainable company in the world in 2011. Corporate citizenship also plays an important role at Geberit, both in global aid projects and with regard to its own employees.
The company’s new, ultramodern logistics centre in Pfullendorf was presented with the Logistics Prize in 2011 by the German Logistics Association. The company’s efforts to centralise and restructure its logistics have paid off: from 2009 to 2010, it reduced its inventory by 28 percent, cut its logistics costs by 15 percent, and slashed the average processing time for a customer order by a good quarter from 4.3 to 3.2 days in Europe.
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