Acqui­si­ti­on of the licence rights for shavers of the „PLAYBOY” brand in Janu­a­ry 2016

The world debut of the paten­ted “Hybrid Koch­sys­tem” recei­ves TÜV/GS and LGA release for all dia­me­ters up to 28 cm in March 2016.

Acqui­si­ti­on of the licence rights for house­hold arti­cles of the „Wie­ner­wald” brand in Decem­ber 2016

Acqui­si­ti­on of the licence rights to the „Car­re­ra” pet access­ories brand in Febru­a­ry 2015
Acqui­si­ti­on of the licence rights to the brand „Car­re­ra” for E‑cigarettes in Sep­tem­ber 2015

For­ma­ti­on of

For­ma­ti­on of „Luft­ret­tung Sauer­land GmbH” as „Daugh­ter of Heli­Jet Char­ter GmbH”

SILAG recei­ves the „Red Dot Award: Pro­duct Design”, cove­ted the world over, for gar­den irri­ga­ti­on of the future.

The Design Cent­re of North Rhine-Westphalia repor­ted that this year the SILAG-produced Car­re­ra Green­mas­ter hose con­nec­tor recei­ved the „Red Dot Award: Pro­duct Design”, a reco­gnis­ed qua­li­ty seal that is cove­ted world-wide. Reco­gnis­ed experts con­si­de­red both the product’s pure sty­listic idi­om and its feel, tes­ted its func­tio­n­a­li­ty and con­fir­med its eco­lo­gi­cal com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty.

Under the mot­to “We make know­ledge afford­a­ble”, SILAG Media AG is able, with the seri­es “I KNOW SOMETHING – Albert E. exp­lains the world”, to rack up sales of over 2 mil­li­on record­ings and more than 60 dif­fe­rent knowledge-related sub­jects. In addi­ti­on, at the start of the year, the edu­ca­tio­nal soft­ware “Albert E. for pri­ma­ry school sub­jects: Ger­man, Mathe­ma­tics and Eng­lish for clas­ses 1−4” was imple­men­ted. The first set of books appears at the end of 2013. In the mean­ti­me.

Acqui­si­ti­on of the brand rights “Car­re­ra” and “Roy­al Coun­ty of Berkshire POLO CLUB”

TÜV Nord Cert GmbH grants the SILAG Media AG the FSC® pro­duct ran­ge cer­ti­fi­ca­ti­on. The aim of the Forest Ste­wardship Coun­cil® (FSC®), foun­ded in 1993, is to pro­mo­te world­wi­de respon­si­bi­li­ty in fores­try in a com­pre­hen­si­ve sen­se.

Start of mar­ke­ting of a new dimen­si­on in the field of „mobi­le media”. Heli­Jet Char­ter GmbH, a 100% sub­si­dia­ry of SILAG Han­del AG, sets a new record under the super­vi­si­on of Guin­ness World Records Ltd. Heli­Jet Char­ter GmbH flies its adver­ti­sing slo­gan through the ski­es on over 5000 m² of aeri­al silk. Read more at www.helijet-charter.de

At over 130 mil­li­on euros, SILAG Han­del AG achie­ves a record tur­no­ver for the pre­vious busi­ness year of 2008 and thus suc­cess­ful­ly sets a bench­mark for fur­ther growth and sus­tainab­le deve­lo­p­ment of the who­le group.

Lar­ge invest­ment in a logistics buil­ding with approx. 75 000 m² of working area and the cor­re­spon­ding num­ber of jobs. The faci­li­ty was fur­ther upgraded in 2011 with the instal­la­ti­on of one of Germany’s lar­gest photo-voltaic units. This ground-breaking instal­la­ti­on in Upper Fran­co­nia was hono­u­red under the name of “Siegfried-Lapawa-Straße”.

Cen­tra­li­sa­ti­on of the tra­de acti­vi­ties in the fiel­ds of media, books and sound record­ings from SILAG Han­del over to SILAG Media AG

For­ma­ti­on of SILAG Media AG

SILAG main admi­nis­tra­ti­on moves from Solin­gen to Lan­gen­feld

Start of mar­ke­ting of the lar­gest adver­ti­sing hoar­dings on Ger­man motor­ways

This medi­um, with an adver­ti­sing sur­face of 500 m², is used by lar­ge com­pa­nies for adver­ti­sing pur­po­ses at the SILAG head­quar­ters on the A3 bet­ween Colo­gne and Düs­sel­dorf.

SILAG Han­del AG exploits a new sales chan­nel with the mar­ke­ting of non-food arti­cles via TV pro­gram­mes. The for­mat RTL Shop Dis­count is deve­lo­ped with the broad­cas­ter RTL and broad­cast in wee­kly shows. Only items from SILAG are mar­ke­ted through this.

SILAG builds the new tra­ding arms of books and sound record­ings wit­hin SILAG Han­del AG

Die Deut­sche Umwelt­hil­fe (Ger­man Envi­ron­men­tal Assi­s­tance) awards Mr. Sieg­fried Lapa­wa the „Ger­man Envi­ron­men­tal Pri­ze 2005” for the deve­lo­p­ment of a new pro­cess in dis­po­sal of paper sludge.

The com­pa­ny extends its tra­ding port­fo­lio with the acqui­si­ti­on of one of the most inter­na­tio­nal­ly important who­le­sa­le com­pa­nies in the field of gift arti­cles, Bur­meis­ter & The­len GmbH. The re-structuring pro­cess of SILAG Metall­wa­ren AG thus star­ted is con­ti­nuing. In future mas­ter item and dis­count item busi­ness will be tran­sac­ted via SILAG Han­del AG.

For­ma­ti­on of SILAG Auto­mo­bil GmbH

Deve­lo­p­ment of non-food manage­ment of rem­nant inven­to­ry

Deve­lo­p­ment of the evo­lu­ti­on of „intel­li­gent manage­ment of rem­nant inven­to­ry”

For­ma­ti­on of SILAG Pro­zess­was­ser­tech­no­lo­gie GmbH

Acqui­si­ti­on of the brand „DOMO TAVOLA”

Acqui­si­ti­on of the world-famous brand „Küchen­Meis­ter”

For­ma­ti­on of „PT Fox Inter­na­tio­nal Indo­ne­sia” as sub­si­dia­ry com­pa­ny

For­ma­ti­on of SILAG Metall­wa­ren AG

Acqui­si­ti­on of world­wi­de rights to the name „Ebel”

Purcha­se of the Solin­gen cut­le­ry fac­to­ry “Chro­mo­lit”

For­ma­ti­on of Nivel­la Cut­le­ry Manu­fac­tu­ring in Solin­gen