Villeroy and Boch Leeds Wakefield

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Welcome to Villeroy & Boch!

We’d like to welcome you to a world full of inspiration and fascination – with versatile and attractive examples for your home. Our ideas for tableware, bathrooms and living are at home throughout the world. And there’s no doubt you’ll find just what you want near you. On the following pages, you’ll find information in many different languages.

Who Villeroy & Boch Are

In the course of our company’s history, we have developed from a manufacturer and marketer of high-quality ceramic products into a lifestyle specialist of worldwide renown offering complete solutions for the private and commercial sectors.

Our company has been a public limited company since 1987 and has been listed on the stock exchange since 1990. Our worldwide sales currently total 893,2 million euros (2005). Our product range is represented through our own marketing companies and importers in 125 countries throughout the world: Villeroy & Boch is at home around the globe.

As an international industrial enterprise, we are organised according to an efficient corporate structure focusing on our three company divisions of "Tableware", "Bathroom and Wellness" and "Tiles". Above and beyond marketing individual products, we also supply integral concepts and solutions such as "the completely-laid table", "the single-source bathroom" and "turnkey bathroom projects in the national and international commercial construction sector".

Villeroy & Boch Brand Philosophy

"Every strength in one brand". This is the strategy with which we are addressing the challenges of the market and the competitive situation in the new millennium centres on the strength of our brand. Today’s market calls for the leadership and appeal of major brands, which include Villeroy and Boch with a brand awareness level of more than 70 per cent.

Credibility, quality, image, competence, elegance, harmony, design and lifestyle are the defining characteristics of the Villeroy & Boch brand. The modernness of our highly traditional brand is based on innovative achievements in all Divisions in the areas of technology and design. This modernness can be experienced first hand in "My House of Villeroy & Boch" shops.

My House of Villeroy & Boch

"My House of Villeroy & Boch" enables us to offer style guidelines and stimuli for purchase decisions. It is one of the most significant innovations in the field of marketing, as it forms the basis of a totally new type of presentation. Products from all lifestyles are presented with a pronounced emotional appeal in realistic room settings. At the same time, these products are appealingly coordinated with each other in terms of colour, pattern and style, making it possible to create a wealth of individual variations.

Villeroy & Boch Product Innovations

Dr. Helmut Kohl presents the German Business Innovation Award to Wendelin von Boch

Innovative power has been an integral part of our company's character for over 250 years. We have repeatedly worked on optimising the ceramic material, production processes and functionality, and have created new product solutions. As a result new horizons have been opened up in terms of product aesthetics.

In recent years, we have been able to present numerous technical innovations which have led to a high degree of optimisation in the utility value of our products: Some examples are the easy-care ceramic finish, "CeramicPlus", the "AquaReduct" water-saving module for WC flushing, the concealed overflow which eliminates the need for unsightly overflow holes and "Magic Basin", a washbasin whose new sensor system replaces tap fittings. The problem of toilet odours is solved by the "PurAir" WC, the first toilet with an integrated system for actively eliminating odours . Thanks to the modular prefabricated bathroom concept "e-motion", commercial bathrooms can be installed in no time at all – with a minimum of noise, dirt and dust pollution.

Using our patented material "Quaryl" we are able to produce baths and shower trays in completely new designs. As its name suggests, the "Light Tile" introduces the element of light into interior design in the form of a tile. By integrating light-emitting diodes into high-quality tiles, the tile itself becomes a source of light which can be used as an exclusive design element or as a guidance system to light the way.

We were one of the first companies in the design field to systematically introduce the pattern and colour concept "Mix & Match" into all tableware lifestyles. Furthermore, we received the "2004 German Business Innovation Award" both for our exciting tableware design "NewWave Caffè" and the production technique which was developed specially to handle its asymmetrical shape.

Villeroy and Boch Leeds Wakefield