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MÖLLERGROUP
GmbH & Co. KG
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Company today |
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Working
for the Möller Group means commitment, as well as thinking
and working together. |
This is a demanding concept, where delegation of responsibility,
trust in the abilities of one's colleagues, motivation, team spirit
and a willingness to co-operate at all levels contribute daily to
the success of the business.
The proprietors of the business strive continually to do more than
can be usually expected from a normal management team.
Initiatives, which go much further than regulations prescribe for
employee care, have for a long time characterised the social policies
of the company, which provides its own sickness insurance, a support
fund and home-building scheme for employees and their families.
The company was already ahead of its time in the 19th century in
these areas.
Today's employee care schemes were put in place in co-operation
with the work's Council and the Trade Unions.
The family firm is now in its seventh generation under the stewardship
of Dr Peter von Möller, Chairman.
With an internal structure based on partnership, and the most modern
technology at its disposal, the business is built on a sound financial
foundation and a willingness to accept responsibility, both inside
and outside the company. As a result secure employment is provided
for more than 3,000 people.
This is a concept which looks to the future and to the eighth generation,
who is already at work in the company.
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Key Dates of the
Company's History |
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1730 |
In 1730, the son of a clergyman,
Johan Theodor Möller, decides to begin producing and
trading in copper goods in Warstein, a small village about
120 kilometres from Bielefeld.
But the origins of the family date back to 1550. For almost
200 years, they were millers and clergymen. The family crest
with a mill-wheel bears witness to this period.
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1762 |
Johan Théodor Möller
acquires his eighth site of activity, a copper-works in Bielefeld.
This marks a further phase of expansion for an already successful
man, who has gained considerable experience in the trade in
this most important raw material.
The second generation involves itself in international trade,
which means that the copper-works does not remain the Möller
families’ only business for much longer.
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1827 |
Théodore Adolf Möller
founds the tannery and leather goods factory of « TA
Möller”, which is still in production in the same
place today. It is regarded as one of the most modern of its
time and the trade mark “TM” becomes synonymous
with quality in the leather industry.
The heir is a dynamic entrepreneur who branches out in new
directions : capital participation and corporate activities
and takes on socio-political obligations.
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1860 |
Under the direction of Friedrich
Möller, the company develops into an enormously diversified
commercial enterprise.
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1863 |
Dr Karl Möller and his
brother jointly founds in 1863 the engineering works «
K. & Th. Möller ». The company’s products
cover a wide range of equipment and machinery for all branches
of industry.
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1880 |
In 1880, it is the beginning
of the leather belting. The two brothers seize the opportunity
to extend further the activities of “Leder Möller”
as this branch of the company is known.
Through modernisation and mechanisation, thanks in part to
machinery from its own engineering works, “Leder Möller”
is now able to increase it’s production capacity considerably
and to fulfil large volume orders, thereby consolidating its
already well established position in markets at home and abroad.
The brothers complement one another. Karl Möller, socially
committed and with scientific ambitions, is responsible for
some remarkable and important technical innovations, such
as the air filter and the hot air motor. Dr Theodore von Möller,
who was honoured in 1905, becomes Prussian Minister of State
for Commerce and Industry. His skills in the fields of politics
and economics, together with the technological expertise of
his older brother, guarantee the commercial success of the
business at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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1897 |
With the fifth generation the
business grows significantly. A new belting factory is established.
The “technical leather” product ranged is expanded.
Large size belting manufacture begins. Möller products
are exported to China.
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1929 |
The depression in the world
economy do not spared the Möller Engineering works with
the exception of the leather and the belting manufactures.
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1936 |
A new historic date for the
company with the leap into plastics technology. The Möllers
gamble on a new macromolecular material (Duroplast), which
experiences a boom in the following decades, as does their
business. A plastic moulding plant is set up.
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1949 |
The injection moulding facility is inaugurated.
This was inspired by Gerd von Möller, father of the current
majority shareholder.
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1950 |
In the fifties, leather production
dominates the sector of footwear, consumer items and V-belting
and plastics production develops significantly. In 1952, the
first plastics pieces for car interior are produced for Mercedes
in Stuttgart.
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1960 |
In the sixties, the tannery
is again modernised and today has achieved a world wide status.
Subsequently, the business concentrates more on serving the
demand and components for its customers’ products.
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1980 |
New orientation : the Möller
factories act as industrial supplier and the international
expansion begins under the new leadership of Dr Peter von
Möller. He acquires plants in France (Châteauroux,
Gamaches, St. Clément, Verrières-le-Buisson)
and in Spain (Amurrio et Bilbao). Several factories are built
in Europe, across the Altantic and, following the Reunification
of Germany, two plants are set up in the New « Länder
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2003 |
Today, Möller Group is
composed of 22 production sites and is involved, thanks to
the support of joints ventures, to the automotive constructors
major markets except the Chinese market.
Still today as since 175 years, leather keeps its own place
in the Möller Group activities.
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