Established in 1996 to bring the quality and luxury of European housewares into American homes, Leifheit International USA, Inc. is today enjoying a level of popularity that's making its esteemed German parent, Leifheit AG*, quite proud.

Products

Leifheit designs outstanding quality and modern European flair into their full range of household products, including kitchen utensils; thermal carafes; canning equipment; kitchen and bathroom scales; step stools and ladders; and cleaning, ironing, and drying equipment. Quality-and design-conscious customers look to gourmet stores, upscale catalogs and retail stores throughout the United States to find the latest and most innovative products in Leifheit's collections.

Brands

Over the years, Leifheit has acquired several European companies equally devoted to developing household products of the highest quality and originality.

Soehnle represents one of Leifheit's significant acquisitions. Soehnle has been designing award-winning scales for over 130 years. The top-selling brand worldwide and the market leader in Europe, Soehnle kitchen and bathroom scales feature Swiss precision, German engineering, and worldwide appeal.

Leifheit recently acquired Birambeau, a long-established, French housewares company with a reputation for expertise in the design and manufacturing of kitchen tools of all descriptions. The Birambeau line, new for the U.S. market, complements Leifheit's successful, premium line of kitchen tools, such as Pro Line Plus and Pro Line, which are distributed to specialty and gourmet stores, upscale department stores, catalogs and on-line home product retailers.

*Leifheit AG is one of the leading European suppliers of housewares products, headquartered in Nassau, Germany. Established in 1959, they today employ 1800 people in 40 countries, and operate 10 production facilities.

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