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| Company type | GmbH |
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| Industry | Kitchen appliances |
| Founded | Bretten,Germany (12 June 1877) |
| Founder | Carl Andreas Neff |
| Headquarters | Munich,Germany |
Key people | Stefan Kinkel Volker Klodwig |
| Products | Cookers Fridges Freezers Hobs Dishwashers |
Number of employees | 1,300 (Germany) |
| Parent | BSH Hausgeräte |
| Website | neff-home.com |
Constructa-Neff Vertriebs-GmbH (formerlyNeff GmbH,stylized asNEFF in its logo) is a German manufacturer of high-endkitchen appliances headquartered inMunich,Germany. The company was founded byCarl Andreas Neff in 1877 and has been a wholly owned subsidiary ofBSH Hausgeräte GmbH since 1982.
It was founded as a small family company inBretten,Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on 12 June 1877 byCarl Andreas Neff.[1] It was first known as Carl Neff Herd und Ofenfabrik (stove and oven factory). In 1914 the company first made a gas oven. In 1950, they introduced their first oven with athermostat. By 1955, they were making appliances in different colours, to suit a bespokefitted kitchen. The company had the sloganim Haus - der Zeit voraus (in the house - ahead of time).
In 1957, it introduced the firstmicrowave oven. In 1957, it introduced the firstinduction cooker (hob) in Europe, marketing it under the revolutionary slogan ofKochen auf der kalten Platte (cook on a cold surface). In 1961 it introduced the first integrated cooker units in Europe, built into other kitchen units - the built-in oven. Also in the same year they began selling larger microwave cookers for commercial (catering) uses. By 1970 it was branching out into providing for the full range of units to make up a fitted kitchen. By the early 1970s the cookers were among the first to be controlled with a digital clock.
In 1971 it introduced itsCircotherm system whereby hot air was circulated around the oven to allow a distribution of cooking with more regularity. These cookers are known asconvection oven or fan ovens, and are still for a specialist market. The Circotherm system was patented by the company, marketed under the sloganRundum-Hitze ist mehr (all around heat is more). In 1985, the convection oven system was first introduced for gas ovens.
In the late twentieth century NEFF-Werke was a subsidiary ofAEG-Telefunken (Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft, formed in 1967). The other subsidiaries were AEG-Telefunken Hausgeräte and Zanker. The NEFF factory was inBretten in the north-west ofBaden-Württemberg, where it employed around 2,000 people. In August 1982, AEG was having financial problems. AEG was bought byDaimler-Benz in 1985, and ceased to exist in 1997.
In 1967,Robert Bosch GmbH of Stuttgart andSiemens AG of Munich formed a joint venture,Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH. It bought NEFF in 1982 when AEG went bankrupt.
The company is owned by BSH Home Appliances Ltd, based in Germany. The UK head office is based inWolverton, Buckinghamshire. Its 4 UK kitchen appliance brands are Bosch, Siemens, Neff andGaggenau. Globally it is joined by other BSH brands: Thermador, Balay, Coldex, Constructa, Pitsos,Ufesa, Profilo, Zelmer, Junker, & Viva. The company was merged withConstructa into theConstructa-Neff Vertriebs-GmbH, which continues to sell the brandsConstructa andNeff individually.
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