The business activities of these companies include products and systems covering the areas of electrical installation, industrial automation, cables and lines, tools, data and network technology, lighting and illumination, household appliances and multimedia products, as well as electrical domestic heating technology and regenerative power generation.

• Ongoing internationalization
• Further expansion of the service and consulting offering
• Continuous further development to become a multi-channel sales company
• Above-average growth of the e-commerce business in relation to total sales
• Groundbreaking ceremony for the new warehouse building at Fega & Schmitt in Heilbronn in the fall of 2017
• Record number of visitors at the in-house trade fair organized by the Italian subsidiary MEF: more than 17,000 visitors in five days
• Expansion of Elfetex headquarters in the Czech Republic by 1,800m²
• Major order spanning a period of several years for Estonian subsidiary W.EG Eesti worth a total of just under EUR 50 million