Retail - Bœrsch, Grand Est, France
It was in 1966, and more specifically on June 6, 1966, that Gérard Lehmann officially registered the name Est-Ménager S.A. to replace his small general electricity company, Electricité Gérard Lehmann. From then on, his wife Marie-Anne joined him in the adventure and a small team was created and set up in the center of Boersch (67), a few kilometers from Obernai. In the 70's, the company quickly extended its electrical activity to household appliances and heating. In the permanent search for innovative and reliable solutions, Gérard Lehmann surrounds himself with competent and expert people, such as a heating engineer for the heating part. This master electrician, entrepreneur at heart, seized the opportunities offered to him and surfed on the wave of oil heating and the first automatic oil stoves. A Franco-Austrian partnership was born immediately with a historical supplier: Haas+Sohn. Gérard Lehmann naturally withdrew from the company he had founded and handed it over to his children. Today, Thierry Lehmann, Gérard's eldest son, is the CEO, assisted by his two brothers: Grégoire and Joseph. The family SME has thus gone through the times by expanding its teams to reach today about twenty employees. In order to survive and ensure its durability, this small structure is constantly seeking to offer its customers reliable and innovative products. It is by this way that Est-Ménager has launched, since the beginning of the years 2000, in the renewable energies with the distribution of stoves and biomass boilers.