Eugster/Frismag

Eugster / Frismag AG, headquartered in Amriswil is an internationally active Swiss manufacturer of household and semi-professional equipment. The company develops and manufactures coffee machines especially for well-known nationally and internationally operating retail brands, including, inter alia, about 95 percent of the Nespresso machines, but also for law, Koenig, Melitta, Moulinex, Miele or turmix. Overall, the annual production amounts to around 5 million coffee machines.

In addition to the three development and production sites in Switzerland with around 1,600 jobs, the company has its own production facility in Portugal with around 500 employees. Another part of the products produced by a joint venture in China. Eugster / Frismag is only in the OEM business works and does not occur with its own brand in the market. The family business employs more than 2,100 people and generated 2008 sales of 643 million Swiss francs.

History

After Arthur Eugster had begun to produce 1976 household electrical appliances such as egg cooker and waffle maker, In 1978 he founded together with his brother Markus the Frismag AG in Amriswil and began the installation of coffee machines. With an inexpensive espresso machine that generated high sales figures in the U.S., the company breakthrough came in 1984. 1989 established a subsidiary in Portugal for the installation of automatic coffee machines. Early 1990s were opened additional production sites in Switzerland and in 1994 launched the first fully automatic coffee machine on the market. 1995, the individual companies were merged to form Eugster / Frismag AG and changed the group headquarters to Romanshorn. In 1997, a partnership for the production of filter coffee machine was received in China, which was transferred to a joint venture company in 2005.