The strong values and principles of a family company shape the corporate culture at Endress+Hauser.
Although Endress+Hauser is in great shape, the company must continually change to stay successful. In an interview, Supervisory Board president Matthias Altendorf and CEO Peter Selders discuss the dynamic between continuity and transformation.
Simon Weidenbruch has come up with a totally new way of generating high voltage. Here he explains why that makes a radiometric level measuring device more sustainable.
Throughout his life, Dr Georg H Endress took the initiative and moved things forward. A hundred years later, the entrepreneur’s legacy is still visible and tangible – in the family-owned business he built up and far beyond.
Klaus Endress, who shaped Endress+Hauser for decades as CEO and president of the Supervisory Board, is retiring. From now on, Steven Endress and Sandra Genge will represent the shareholding family on the Supervisory Board. In an interview the trio discusses stable values, corporate responsibility and celebrating Christmas together.
As Corporate Director of Supply Chain, Oliver Blum and his team ensure that the three million sensors and systems supplied by Endress+Hauser every year reach customers around the world quickly and reliably.
Changes are taking place at the top of Endress+Hauser at the beginning of 2024. Klaus Endress will relinquish his duties as President of the Supervisory Board. He will be succeeded by CEO Matthias Altendorf. Taking over the reins of the Group will be Peter Selders, currently Managing Director of Endress+Hauser Level+Pressure.
Endress+Hauser could still be flourishing in a hundred years’ time. And the family could still bear responsibility without involvement in the day-to-day business. Klaus Endress, President of the Supervisory Board, and Matthias Altendorf, CEO of the Group, talk about the past and future of the family-owned company.
Endress+Hauser looks back on seven eventful decades It was an unlikely pair that came together in 1953 to create a company: on one side, the Swiss engineer Georg H Endress, just 29, and on the other, the German Ludwig Hauser, 58, head of a cooperative bank. But the two complemented each other perfectly. The vision and drive of one was as important for success as the prudence and experience of the other.