During the year 1949, the Liebherr family business was created by Hans Liebherr. His first claim to fame was the success of his affordable and easy-to-assemble mobile tower crane. It was upon this invention that the company's foundation flourished under. These days, The Liebherr business has grown to become among the world's leading manufacturers of construction machinery. The company has also gained the reputation of being the accredited supplier of user-oriented technically innovative services and products in various fields. The company has currently become a "Group" working in every continent with over 130 companies and over 35,000 employees all around the globe.
The Liebherr Group has been divided into various company units in order to ensure a manageable operating size. These individual units operate independently. This set up enables the company the ability to stay in tune with global competition and be flexible to market signals. What's more, having so many individual company units additionally ensures customer proximity and keeps customer service running at an optimum level.
The divisional control companies handle the operative management of the sales companies and the production for the individual product segments. The Liebherr Group presently has ten various product divisions.
The holding company of the Liebherr Group is Liebherr-International AG. Liebherr-International AG is located within Bulle, Switzerland and is operating by members of the Liebherr family. Currently, the family business is being managed by Dr. H.C. Isolde Liebherr and her brother Dr. H.C. Willi Liebherr in the second generation. Since the year 2012, some of the active individual divisions have been represented by 3rd generation members of the family like: Sophie Albrecht, Jan Liebherr, Patricia Ruf and Stefanie Wohlfarth. These family members have been working hard together in order to help set up the course of the family business in the future. They are staying on top of residential buildings and large-scale industrial projects across the world.
Hans Liebherr started to build his business during the year 1949, in a tiny town known as Kirchdorf within southern Germany. Kirchdorf, presently supports one of Liebherr's 20 manufacturing locations. They could average an annual output of approximately 2800 wheeled excavators and employ more than 1400 people in that particular workforce. The company has enjoyed diversity and immense growth ever since it initially started. The Liebherr Group continues to remain devoted to implementing and engineering innovative designs. They have earned a successful and positive place in the material handling industry.