OUR ROOTS: PASSION AND QUALITY
Blauer Anton is probably the best-known term for classic workwear. It also marks the beginning of KÜBLER's story. As a family business, we have been developing and producing since 1956. Thanks to extensive experience and tradition, as well as a lot of enthusiasm, passion, and innovative strength, we have been able to make work safer and set new trends for 60 years.
1956
In Schorndorf, the trained textile salesman Paul H. Kübler fulfills a dream in 1956. Together with his wife Liesel and five seamstresses, he begins producing workwear.
The workwear initially is limited to suits, overalls, and coats. Safety clothing for road maintenance personnel is quickly added.
1965
KÜBLER meets the demands of the rapidly developing industry and soon has to build new production facilities due to high demand.
The company grows rapidly and employs 70 people in Schorndorf.
The Clipo fastener, used for bib overalls, is patented and becomes the most important product.
1971
KÜBLER is the market leader in colored workwear.
1972
First manufacturing cooperations with Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic are established.
At the same time, the company expands to Plüderhausen, 7 km away, where the headquarters are still located today. Administration, storage, cutting, and shipping are accommodated in over 4,000 m².
The demand is high, as workwear ranges from the guild regulations for butchers with striped shirts to sturdy Trenker corduroy pants for carpenters and joiners, up to the uniforms of flight personnel or the police.
1985
First collaborations with production facilities in the Far East are established.
The range is continuously expanded so that almost all professional groups can be supplied with workwear.
1994
After the acquisition of five production facilities from the Hungarian Trust and extensive investments in manufacturing halls, the independent production company Kübler Konfekcioipari Kft is established in Hungary.
1995
KÜBLER expands and modernizes. The new powerful warehouse and logistics center at the Plüderhausen site is inaugurated and offers space for more than 650,000 clothing items.
Order picking is carried out using industrial trucks via a high-bay warehouse. The workwear is packed and shipped at up to 5 packing lines.
1996
The takeover of the "work & fashion" division of the clothing manufacturer KEMPEL takes place.
The company, originally founded in 1890 as Kempel & Leibfried A.G., is one of the oldest manufacturers of workwear and at that time also one of the largest.
In the nineties, the company gets into trouble and in 1996, until the takeover by KÜBLER, the final end is threatened.
2006
The fiftieth company anniversary of KÜBLER is celebrated at a grand ceremony with suppliers, customers, and employees.
2009
Kempel relocates the company headquarters from Bad Urach to the Plüderhausen site at KÜBLER.
2015
The two brands KÜBLER and KEMPEL are merged. All sales and other business management activities are consolidated and integrated under the umbrella brand KÜBLER.
2024
Today, KÜBLER employs over 240 people at the Plüderhausen site. More than 30 of these employees are highly qualified seamstresses who work in the in-house production.
KÜBLER is one of the leading manufacturers of work and protective clothing in Europe.