One hundred years of Blanc & Fischer

In 2025, the Blanc & Fischer family holding celebrates an extra-special anniversary: Over the past 100 years, two start-ups by courageous businessmen have developed into a globally active group of companies. Together, we take a look back over the company’s milestones – from its exciting beginnings in the 1920s to the digitalisation and automation of today. As a subsidiary, the B.PRO Group helps to shape this success every day.

Years earlier, the two businessmen had each already demonstrated their outstanding pioneering spirit: in 1925, 28-year-old Heinrich Blanc realises that water troughs for the Baden coal-fired oven industry are often in short supply. Without further ado, he registers a company himself – and Blanc & Co is born. The company specialises entirely in the production of the coveted containers used to heat water in the kitchen at the time, and is soon able to supply them in record time and at unbeatable prices. Other products such as hot water bottles and kettles were added to the range shortly afterwards.

At the same time, Karl Fischer is also shaking up the market with his young company E.G.O., which offered appliances to make electric cooking affordable for a wider population for the first time.

Shortly after their first contact in 1931, Heinrich Blanc became a partner in Fischers Elektro-Gerätebau GmbH – today one of the world's largest manufacturers of components and control electronics for household appliances. From then on, the brilliant technician and inventor Heinrich Blanc and the ingenious businessman and inventor Karl Fischer worked closely together with their companies. E.G.O. relocates its headquarters to Oberderdingen, the current headquarters of Blanc & Fischer family holding.

During the reign of National Socialism, Blanc & Co. and E.G.O. participated in the war economy. You can find more information on the period between 1933 and 1945 here.

With the production of food transport trolleys and products for the commercial catering industry, new markets are opened up – the division from which today's B.PRO Group later emerges.

In the 1960s, things go from strength to strength: The commercial kitchen and catering sector is systematically expanded in the following years, and from 1961, containers for food distribution are added to the range. Building on its outstanding expertise in stainless-steel processing, BLANCO taps into further areas of business. The production of medical baths forms the basis for the later Medical Business Unit. The establishment of in-house toolmaking sets the course for the Industrial Business Unit.

From 2007, BLANCO concentrates on the B2C business with sinks and mixer taps for private households. The B2B division is continued by BLANCO CS as a new, independent company with the Catering, Medical and Industrial units (now ENOXX Engineering). BLANCO CS becomes BLANCO Professional, and then finally B.PRO from 2021.

Following the separation of the Medical unit and the acquisition of automation specialist BRIMATO, B.PRO is more focussed than ever. While ENOXX manufactures deep-drawn parts and assemblies made of stainless steel for industry, B.PRO Catering Solutions focuses entirely on food logistics in all its facets.