FSB - The new executive

customer-responsive, international and sustainable.

20.01.2022

FSB, cel­e­brated her­itage brand from Brakel in eastern West­phalia, has 140 years of cor­po­rate success to look back on. In ap­point­ing a new man­age­ment team com­pris­ing Tobias Gockeln and Jürgen Hess and strate­gi­cally re­fo­cus­ing its busi­ness, the premium hard­ware man­u­fac­turer has staked out a course for the future that is set to excite ex­ist­ing and future cus­tomers both at home and abroad.

The FSB brand is a byword the world over for time­lessly de­signed, func­tion­ally top-notch system so­lu­tions for doors and windows as well as for bar­rier-free san­i­tary fit­ments of the highest order – made in Germany, made in Brakel. Its sundry ac­tiv­i­ties have been geared towards fu­ture­ca­pable so­lu­tions ever since it was es­tab­lished 140 years ago, and now is no ex­cep­tion: Franz Schnei­der Brakel GmbH + Co KG is living up to its cor­po­rate DNA by fo­cus­ing all its en­er­gies upon pro­vid­ing au­thor­i­ta­tive advice and optimum support for ar­chi­tects, builder’s clients, plan­ners, fab­ri­ca­tors and trade stock­ists through­out the ar­chi­tec­tural per­for­mance chain.

The new ex­ec­u­tive duo of Tobias Gockeln (34) and Jürgen Hess (57) con­sti­tute a key plank in this policy of further de­vel­op­ment. Of par­tic­u­lar in­ter­est is the fact that, when Tobias Gockeln was ap­pointed as Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor at the start of 2021, he was the first member of the owning family to fulfil such a role for 40 years. A year later, the Ad­vi­sory Board and owning family were able to acquire the ser­vices of Jürgen Hess, a manager and expert with ex­ten­sive ex­pe­ri­ence of ar­chi­tec­ture and design who has enjoyed great success in a number of related sectors to date.

Tobias Gockeln and Jürgen Hess have the mutual ob­jec­tive of ac­tively fash­ion­ing current trans­for­ma­tion processes and of suc­cess­fully chart­ing FSB's future. “We aspire to take the company's success another step forward by build­ing upon the sturdy foun­da­tions of the FSB brand, its fine prod­ucts and the passion and mul­ti­far­i­ous skills of the entire FSB team,” Jürgen Hess en­thuses. “We aim to be the best part­ners for our cus­tomers by con­stantly fo­cus­ing on our unique so­lu­tions and the issue of sus­tain­abil­ity.” “And,” Tobias Gockeln adds, “with the FSB brand set to remain as in­no­v­a­tive as ever whilst also upping ac­tiv­i­ties on the digital front in future, we will manage to win younger gen­er­a­tions over to our so­lu­tions, too, in this way.”

The two MDs are intent on doing what­ever is needed to make FSB as at­trac­tive an em­ployer as pos­si­ble for every­one cur­rently working with the firm as well as for those who join in future. “We are in the process of draft­ing a modern work­place scheme that gives staff great scope for shaping events,” Tobias Gockeln says, adding that “people and their sense of al­le­giance to FSB have always been the most im­por­tant in­gre­di­ents in our ongoing success story – and will con­tinue to be in future.”

About FSB
FSB has been fo­cus­ing on per­fec­tion for more than 140 years now and is a byword the world over for per­fectly en­gi­neered hard­ware so­lu­tions for doors and windows and bar­rier-free san­i­tary fit-outs. Ar­chi­tects and builders’ clients relish reach­ing out for prod­ucts from Brakel in recog­ni­tion of FSB’s great design ex­per­tise and pro­found un­der­stand­ing of the re­quire­ments of modern con­struc­tion. Every­thing in any way as­so­ci­ated with handle culture in built spaces is catered to from a single source.

Franz Schnei­der
Brakel GmbH + Co KG

Anne Levy
Nieheimer Straße 38
33034 Brakel
Telefon: +49 5272 608-105
anne.​levy@​fsb.​de