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| 24.04.18 |
New 24,000 m² logistics platform to support growth.
With an opening planned for 2020, the new platform will be located in the industrial zone ‘Ecoparc Rhénan’ in Reichstett, in the Greater Strasbourg area, France. |
| 12.04.18 |
Hager Group sponsors the event L’Industrie Magnifique
From 3rd to 13th May, Hager Group will exhibit Stephan Balkenhol’s sculpture Mann auf Stier (Man on Bull) at Place d’Austerlitz, Strasbourg. |
| 26.03.18 |
Building bridges: Hager Group Annual Report 2017/18 is now available!
Hager Group Annual Report 2017/18 explores where and how bridges are being built both within the company and far beyond. |
| 13.12.17 |
Hager Group acquires German energy storage specialists E3/DC
By acquiring E3/DC GmbH, an Osnabrück-based company specialising in energy management and storage, Hager Group now has one of the key competencies for a future-oriented energy supply. |
| 13.11.17 |
Marketing and technical expertise on Hager Group Board of Directors
On 10th November Hager SE Supervisory Board appointed Mike Elbers as Chief Marketing Officer in charge of solution development and marketing divisions, and François Lhomme as Chief Technical Officer responsible for technical processes, engineering and value chain. |
| 06.11.17 |
Relationship status: complicated
Daniel Hager contributes to collection of essays on Franco-German relations |
| 05.07.17 |
Hager Group acquires Herholdt Controls
By acquiring Herholdt Controls, Hager Group completes its portfolio of electrical energy measurement solutions. |
| 29.06.17 |
New member joins Hager Group’s Supervisory Board
Gisela Lanza, professor and Head of the Institute of Production Science of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technologiy (KIT) is appointed as new board member of Hager Group. |
| 27.06.17 |
Hager Group acquires a stake in Hakisa
Hager Group and Hakisa just entered into a strategic partnership – a result of the successful cooperation between the industrial group and the start-up. |
| 12.04.17 |
Value added: Hager Group Annual Report 2016/17 is now available.
Hager Group has devoted its latest Annual Report 2016/17 to looking more closely at the added value that is inherent in Smart Services. |
| 07.04.17 |
Hager Group Young Talents Day
On 30th March 2017, Hager Group opened the doors of its Obernai site to students from various schools of engineering in the region. |
| 13.03.17 |
Bertrand Schmitt, Chief Operating Officer, leaves the company on 15th April 2017.
After 22 years with Hager Group, member of the Board of Directors and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Bertrand Schmitt will pursue his remarkable career outside of the company to lead another organisation as CEO. |
| 20.01.17 |
Dr. Oswald Hager has passed away
Dr. Oswald Hager, one of the founders of Hager Group and a pioneering figure in the German electrical engineering sector, passed away on 19th January 2017 at the age of 90. |
| 24.11.16 |
90th birthday of Dr Oswald Hager
90 years old and ever the consummate entrepreneur. |
| 08.11.16 |
Hager Group organises fun day out for youngsters from three SOS Children’s Villages
Almost 80 children from three SOS Children’s Villages were recently given the chance to discover Europe’s best theme park: Europa-Park. |
| 22.09.16 |
A network for the future
First international meeting of Hager Group’s community of trainees, apprentices and interns. |
| 30.08.16 | Hager Group Digital Annual Report awarded twice with Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2016 |
| 28.06.16 |
‘Mann auf Stier’: new outdoor sculpture by Stephan Balkenhol unveiled at Hager Group in Obernai
With the coloured bronze sculpture ‘Mann auf Stier’ (‘Man on bull’), the artist has picked up on the myth of the bull – very popular in art throughout history – and created a sculpture that, due to its contradictory nature, examines the complex issues of the attitudes and perspectives of mankind. |
| 27.05.16 |
Hager Group sponsors a team in the WAVE TROPHY
When the opportunity presented itself to sponsor an e-couple in the rally, for Hager Group it was hard to refuse, indeed, e-mobility is an important topic for the group now and in the future. witty charging stations, an e-rally charging stop in Blieskastel in 2015 for the simultaneous charging of 26 electric vehicles, and not to mention its venture with freshmile (an operator for recharging electrical vehicles) are some of examples that prove that Hager Group is a firm supporter of all initiatives promoting sustainable development. |
| 21.03.16 |
Hager Group Annual Report 2015
Listening? Isn’t that something we all do day in, day out? Actually, listening and understanding are two very different things. For this reason, Hager Group has dedicated its Annual Report 2015 to the all-important art of listening. |
| 15.03.16 |
Hightech-Forum at Light + Building 2016
What innovations does our country need in order to make the smart home concept a success nationwide? What technologies must be developed so that we can design buildings that are efficient and intelligent? |
| 24.02.16 |
Hager Group acquires French company Azimut Monitoring
Hager Group is pleased to announce the acquisition of the French company Azimut Monitoring, a leading company in the field of air quality and noise monitoring for smart buildings and smart cities. |
| 11.12.15 |
Hager Group develops the Internet of Things in cooperation with AllSeen Alliance
Perfectly connected to the future: Hager Group develops the Internet of Things in cooperation with AllSeen Alliance |
| 28.10.15 |
Millions of Germans are living alongside outdated electrical installations
Although modern electrical appliances are increasingly making their way into German households, millions of electrical installations have yet to progress from post-war conditions. |
| 20.10.15 |
Getting old in the safety of your own home
Hager Group has brought together practitioners, decision-makers and pioneering thinkers at AAL Days in Obernai |
| 16.10.15 |
Franck Houdebert, new member of the Board of Directors
Hager Group puts Human Resources in the forefront. |
| 13.10.15 |
“Excellent Places in the Land of Ideas” 2015
The intelligent building from Blieskastel |
| 16.09.15 |
E-Rallye organised by the Moselle Departement in France makes a charging stop at Hager Group.
Intelligent recharging management at Hager Group site in Blieskastel allows 26 electric vehicles to be recharged simultaneously. |
| 20.08.15 |
The 1st Franco-German AAL Days
Ambient Assisted Living technology is opening up a new business area for solutions that make everyday life easier for the elderly and those in need of care. |
| 30.07.15 |
‘Going beyond borders’: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer begins her summer tour with Hager Group in Blieskastel.
This year, the theme for Minister-President Kramp-Karrenbauer’s summer tour is ‘going beyond borders’, which began at a company which best demonstrates this theme |
| 08.07.15 |
Hager Forum is now open:
a hub of inspiration and innovation |
| 26.06.15 |
Hager Group says goodbye and thank you to Oswald Bubel on the occasion of his retirement:
more than 50 years for the continuous growth of the group. |
| 23.06.15 |
New Annual Report
Family company Hager Group projects to speed up growth and explains key factors of success in new annual report. |
| 09.06.15 |
“Excellent Places in the Land of Ideas 2015”:
expert panel awards prize to Blieskastel research and application centre. |
| 27.05.15 |
New organisation for the EEBus initiative for smart connectivity
Johannes Hauck, Hager Group, is nominated for the Executive board. |
| 13.05.15 |
Hager Group at Expo 2015
It is launched! The Expo 2015 world exhibition has opened its doors to the public, and Hager Group is taking part. |
| 14.04.15 |
“On track for further growth”
Supervisory Board confirms Hager Group’s Board of Directors in office. |
| 08.04.15 |
#speed202 – a complete success!
203.275 km/h - Edmond Plawczyk sets record with support from Hager |
| 02.04.15 |
Energy efficiency, security and comfort:
Hager Group demonstrated how houses and their residents can learn from one another with “autonomic building” at this year’s CeBIT |
| 27.03.15 |
Forward-looking strategist:
Martin Kaiser appointed as Head of Services at Hager Group |
| 20.03.15 |
#speed202: objective 202 km/h
Edmond Plawczyk and Hager on track for record attempt! |
| 03.02.15 |
Keynote event on electric mobility: “Keeping people moving”
“Keeping people moving” |
| 08.01.15 |
Bocchiotti
Hager Group acquires Italy’s market leader in cable management |
| 19.12.14 |
Hager Group Continuous Improvement Awards 2014
At the eleventh Hager Group Continuous Improvement Awards ceremony which took place on 15th December in the Mélies amphitheatre in Obernai, France, |
| 18.11.14 |
Major industry award for Dr. Oswald Hager
Hager Group founder honoured for lifetime achievement |
| 04.07.14 |
Global Compact
Hager Group continues its sustainable commitment to the United Nations’ Global Compact |
| 25.06.14 |
Change on Hager Group’s Supervisory Board
Two new faces and a change at the top: those were the decisions made at Hager SE’s (societas europaea) annual general meeting, which was held today at the company’s headquarters in Blieskastel. |
| 03.04.14 |
From energy-efficient housing to smart grid
Hager Group dynamises the energy transition |
| 26.03.14 |
Hermann Hager has passed away
Hermann Hager, one of the great entrepreneurial personalities of the post-war period, has died at the age of 85. |
| 13.01.14 |
Hager Group and ABN Braun AG agree on strategic partnership
Working together to strengthen outdoor electricity |
| 17.12.13 |
Hager Group Continuous Improvement Awards 2013
At the beginning of December, Hager Group organised for the tenth year in a row its “Continuous Improvement (CI) Awards” ceremony in Neunkirchen, close to the group’s headquarters in Blieskastel, Germany. The ceremony rewards employees who suggest the best initiatives in the domain of continuous improvement. |
| 26.11.13 |
Hager Group: Making our diversity an asset
With employees of 65 different nationalities, Hager Group is a global player dealing with diversity on a daily basis. In 2012, we decided to take this approach even further and formalised our approach to diversity. |
| 14.11.13 |
Shape, function and emotion - Discovering Hager’s design world.
Hager has been creating standards for the electrical industry for more than five decades. ... |
| 18.09.13 |
Hager Group lays the first stone of its new Forum
On 16th September building work officially started on the new Hager Group Forum at the Group's biggest site in Obernai, Alsace. |
| 20.08.13 |
An adventurous day with Hager Group
Hager Group treats youngsters at SOS Children's Villages to a trip to Europa-Park in Rust. |
| 25.07.13 |
Going on-line with sustainability and the United Nations’ Global Compact
On 26th June 2013 Hager Group went on-line with the 2013 edition of its Communication on Progress report for the United Nations’ Global Compact. |
| 25.06.13 |
50 years of Franco-German friendship: Hager Group supports the Paris–Berlin Tour
Even 50 years after it was signed, the Franco-German Treaty of Friendship is still keeping the two countries in motion. To celebrate the Élysée-Treaty 50 German and French cyclists will pedal their way from Paris to Berlin. Also taking part will be Hager Group, whose history is intertwined with that of the two countries in a special way. |
| 21.06.13 |
Hager Group Health Week - Everyone's a winner! A resounding success
Hager Group held its first international campaign week on the subject of health and well-being at work and declares it to have been a great success. |
| 29.05.13 |
Hager Group reinforces its activity in the field of security-related services
Hager Group evolves continuing to make life easier for its customers and partners, becoming a supplier of services and total solutions. |
| 27.03.13 |
Ideas rewarded for the intelligent use of energy
Hager Group presents awards to three energy-efficient innovations at the CeBIT trade fair. |
| 19.03.13 |
Hager Group, furthering its ambition to be a global player, appoints an internationally experienced top manager
In a period of dynamic expansion, Hager Group has strengthened its management team with an internationally experienced top manager. |
| 05.03.13 |
Sponsorship and start-up recognition from the leading innovator in the electrotechnical sector
Press conference on 5th March 2013. |
| 28.02.13 |
Awarding Berker design - Berker switch design in the spotlight
Over the last few months, the new Berker R.1, R.3. and Serie R.classic switch ranges have received a total of 15 awards for design. |
| 27.02.13 |
CODE_n E_nergised by Hager Group
Sponsorship and start-up recognition from the leading innovator in the electro-technical sector. |
| 16.01.13 |
Hager Group intranet among the 10 best intranets in the world
The year has had an excellent start for the communication and collaborative tools of Hager Group. |
| 01.12.12 |
"iF communication design award 2013" for Hager Group's excellent Annual Report
When the name Hager Group appears on the outside, there's innovation within: For decades this principle has kept the Saarland companyat the forefront of the electrical engineering industry. |
| 01.10.12 |
A Building to Represent Hager Group’s Identity
Sauerbruch Hutton have won the Competition to build the new Hager Group Forum In the Alsatian Town of Obernai. |
| 01.10.12 |
A chance for the professional future: Hager Group and the CJD cooperate in training
Whoever opts for logistics training at the vocational training centre of the CJD Homburg/Saar, learns his trade under real-time conditions. Hager Group provides the trainees with two halls on the old Ensheimer factory site and this gives a further example of sustainability at Hager Group: “E3”. |
| 24.08.12 |
Just innovative: the Hager Group Annual Report 2011 Today’s ideas for tomorrow’s growth It is said that the most reliable way to forecast the future is to invent it, and it is exactly this that Hager Group is intensively working on. |
| 22.05.12 |
Hager Group takes majority stake in locate solution GmbH
Hager Group and the former scemtec automation GmbH are to jointly develop system solutions for elderly people as well as for people in need of care and with restricted health conditions. |
| 16.04.12 |
Hager Group strengthens its commitment in Saudi Arabia
To strengthen its presence on the Arabian Peninsula, Hager Group opened a new office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 11 March 2012. |
| 30.03.12 |
Hager Group: Mike Elbers new Marketing and Sales Director Central
From April 1st Mike Elbers will be strengthening Hager Group as Marketing and Sales Director for Hager and Berker in Germany as well as Head of Central Europe (Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands). |
24.04.18
With an opening planned for 2020, the new platform will be located in the industrial zone ‘Ecoparc Rhénan’ in Reichstett, in the Greater Strasbourg area, France.
12.04.18
From 3rd to 13th May, Hager Group will exhibit Stephan Balkenhol’s sculpture Mann auf Stier (Man on Bull) at Place d’Austerlitz, Strasbourg.
26.03.18
Hager Group Annual Report 2017/18 explores where and how bridges are being built both within the company and far beyond.
13.12.17
By acquiring E3/DC GmbH, an Osnabrück-based company specialising in energy management and storage, Hager Group now has one of the key competencies for a future-oriented energy supply.
13.11.17
On 10th November Hager SE Supervisory Board appointed Mike Elbers as Chief Marketing Officer in charge of solution development and marketing divisions, and François Lhomme as Chief Technical Officer responsible for technical processes, engineering and value chain.
06.11.17
Daniel Hager contributes to collection of essays on Franco-German relations
05.07.17
By acquiring Herholdt Controls, Hager Group completes its portfolio of electrical energy measurement solutions.
29.06.17
Gisela Lanza, professor and Head of the Institute of Production Science of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technologiy (KIT) is appointed as new board member of Hager Group.
27.06.17
Hager Group and Hakisa just entered into a strategic partnership – a result of the successful cooperation between the industrial group and the start-up.
12.04.17
Hager Group has devoted its latest Annual Report 2016/17 to looking more closely at the added value that is inherent in Smart Services.
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