Michael Hornbach, a master slater, establishes a workshop in Landau/Pfalz.
His son, Wilhelm Hornbach, expands his father’s business by adding a construction materials trading business.
Alongside the construction materials trade, the production of domestic and municipal sewage plants becomes an important springboard for further growth in the next generation with Albert and Wilhelm Hornbach junior. For this, HORNBACH moves to Bornheim bei Landau.
Otmar Hornbach, great-grandson of the company founder, takes a pioneering step – opening the first combined DIY store and garden center in Bornheim. This combination is the first of its kind in Europe.
The first large-scale “DIY supermarket”, with sales areas of more than 8,000 m², opens in Karlsruhe. HORNBACH becomes the leading specialist in DIY superstores.
Status: as of Feb 29, 2024
Further details about the individual shareholdings of HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA can be found in the 2023/24 Annual Report.
HORNBACH is a forward-looking, family-managed company that is characterized by a clear system of values. The values on which this system is based are honesty, credibility, reliability, clarity, and trust in people. This system of values, which had already been lived over many decades, was summarized in the “HORNBACH Foundation” in 2004. This model forms the cornerstone for our Group strategy, everyday behavior, and corporate social responsibility. It lays down the basic values governing how we behave towards our customers, as well as how we behave towards each other as colleagues. Moreover, the Foundation helps our shareholders, customers, and the general public, as well as our employees, to understand what the basis of our business success is.
