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The Brunner company history speaks for itself: Today’s family-owned company was founded 30 years ago, when Rolf Brunner had just finished his vocational training to become a banker and was working for a furniture manufacturer. When Heidelberg University proved too demanding a customer and his boss wanted to decline the order, Rolf suddenly declared he was going to meet the demand – in his sole responsibility. His entrepreneurial ambition had been awakened: He took a loan from the bank and from his grandfather and, together with his wife Helena, he founded his own company. Assembly, packaging and delivery was done by themselves, and the order was transported in an old Red Cross bus to the client’s doorstep – on time and to the client’s entire satisfaction. So even this first order was a custom-made product, a chair with a special width made specifically for the University’s lecture halls.
Furniture that makes sense
This distinct customer orientation has remained the company’s hallmark. Rolf Brunner visited his customers, took a good look at the situation, did personal consultation himself – this special chair for that special floor etc. In the beginning, it was all about big halls – multi-purpose halls and convention halls were the latest craze in the late 70s. And when the respective applications called for modifications of the models, Brunner would find a solution.
For more than 30 years, the company has been developing their own models, by now more than 100 series. And still to this day, modifying products according to the clients’ needs is a Brunner specialty – no problem thanks to their own manufacturing facilities. Or new products are being developed in co-operation right from the very start: this is how the comfort seat for the plaza series has been developed together with Porsche.
The name as guarantee
It has always been the ambition of Brunner to fulfill the most diverse demands on chairs and their properties and to find an answer to practically all situations in which people sit. This also means to always propose new things, not to be content with yesterday’s results – but to present even better solutions, and even more adequate answers to very specific demands.
Brunner GmbH still is a family-owned company, by now in its second generation: Marc, the son, is acting as third managing director beside his parents. And the fact that the family name is also the company name is no coincidence. Because there’s probably no better guarantee for quality, timely delivery and the right chair in the right place than one’s own name.
From the company's history:
1977 Helena and Rolf Brunner found the Brunner company – producing in their own location right from the very start.
1978 the first production facility was constructed, moving to the Rheinau industrial area.
1979 foundation of the ARRO sales company in France.
1981 foundation of the Sedorama sales company in Switzerland.
1983 construction of a new storage facility with 1,500 sqm.
1984: the company employs 70 people and posts a revenue of 16m German marks.
1985 construction of the new office and administration building in Rheinau.
2005 Dr. Marc Brunner enters the managerial board.
2006 inauguration of the communication center in Rheinau.