For decades, HOBART has been one of the world's leading manufacturers of commercial warewashing equipment. We are also one of the best-known providers of solutions in the fields of cooking, food preparation and food waste technology.
For over 125 years we have been developing and distributing high-quality appliances and systems at our production site in Offenburg that are in use worldwide. Our customers include hotels, restaurants and caterers, commercial kitchens, bakeries and butchers, supermarkets, industrial companies, airlines and cruise ships. Since 1999, we have been part of the US-based Illinois Tool Works (ITW) Group that manufactures and distributes a wide range of innovative products through its 44,000 employees in independently operating companies worldwide.
| Founded in: | 1897 Troy, USA; 1930 Hamburg, Germany |
| General Manager: |
Axel Beck, Executive Vice President ITW Food Equipment Group Silvio Koch, Vice President / General Manager Service and Equipment Europe, Australia ITW Food Equipment Group Manfred Kohler, Vice President / General Manager Warewash Germany, Asia Pacific and Global Engineering ITW Food Equipment Group |
| Employees in Germany: |
> 1,100 40 of these are apprentices and university students |
| Product portfolio: | warewashing, cooking, food preparation, waste technology, chemicals, water treatment, service |