Vorwerk & Co. KG was founded in Wuppertal in 1883. During the course of its 130-year history, the company, originally a carpet factory, has grown into a highly diversified, global corporate group. Vorwerk nevertheless remains a family enterprise to this day.
Since 1930, Vorwerk’s core business has been the direct selling of high-quality products. The Vorwerk product range includes household appliances (the Kobold vacuum cleaner and the Thermomix kitchen appliance) and the first-class JAFRA cosmetics. The akf banking group, the Vorwerk carpet factories and the HECTAS Group as an associate company all belong to the Vorwerk entrepreneurial family. Superior products and a special customer approach are something all divisions have in common, and what makes Vorwerk so special.
Vorwerk provides jobs for 622,000 people worldwide, of whom 40,000 work as sales advisers and representatives in the household appliances segment, 570,000 as JAFRA Cosmetics consultants, and 12,545 as employees. Vorwerk generated a business volume totaling more than 3,1 billion euros in 2013 and operates in 70 countries.
Vorwerk products have been available in the UK market during the last 30 years.For more information about the Vorwerk Kobold VK200 vacuum cleaner, please visit our online press centre here or go to www.vorwerk.co.uk
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