Business Equipment Group

The Business Equipment Group (BEG) comprises the companies of the former KAISER + KRAFT EUROPA division. Its success story began in Stuttgart back in 1945. Helmut Kraft and Walter Kaiser founded a company that advanced to become Europe’s leading B2B direct marketing company in the following decades. Its European expansion started in 1967, followed by the Asian market entry in 2002. Today, 916 employees in more than 20 European countries as well as in China and Japan work for the BEG, whose operational service holding company is KAISER + KRAFT EUROPA GmbH. The group owns the brands KAISER + KRAFT, gaerner, Gerdmans, KWESTO and Certeo. The BEG is TAKKT Group’s largest and most successful group with around 1.1 million customers. Its product range comprises approximately 50,000 products – from waste bins and shelving systems to mobile cranes. The company’s private brands EUROKRAFT, office akktiv and Quipo stand for top-quality office, plant and warehouse equipment. On request, the company develops customised products, mini-series and products in the customer’s corporate design.