World Cup football teams shower with Hansgrohe

Schiltach, 09 June 2010. Schiltach-based Hansgrohe AG supplies mixers and showers for the World Cup in South Africa. The changing rooms and VIP boxes in four of the ten football stadiums have been fitted with products made by the design leader. These include the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg where the opening game and the finals will be held, the Durban Stadium, the GreenPoint Stadium in Cape Town and the newly built Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth. Many hotels, clubs and lodges built in recent months to cater for the World Cup have also opted for Hansgrohe’s ‘Made in Germany’ seal of quality. Around 30 hotels in the high-end and luxury bracket selected mixers and showers from the Black Forest when fitting out their bathrooms.

“Hansgrohe is regarded as the international leader in design and innovation and as a high-quality premium brand in the South African market. Architects and developers value our innovative products, which combine the enjoyment of water with the conservation of resources,” said Siegfried Gänßlen, Chairman of the Executive Board at Hansgrohe AG. “We have had a subsidiary in South Africa since 2009 and have successfully increased sales by 25% over the last year. Today we are already the leading imported brand on the Cape – and we now hope to substantially increase our market share. Our successes in the project business in the lead-up to the World Cup are creating the optimum conditions for achieving this aim.”