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Berendsohn

Logo: Berendsohn AG, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

Berendsohn AG is a company active on the promotional products market with its headquarters in Hamburg and markets in 14 European states. According to the company, the annual turnover amounts to approx. EUR 80 million. Berendsohn AG maintains business relationships with more than 100,000 clients.2 It was founded in 1833.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1833Founded1
  • HeadquartersHamburg1
  • Websitewww.berendsohn.com
  • Legal formAktiengesellschaft1
  • LEI529900DOZFASQ07FXO533
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressFriesenweg 22, 22763 Hamburg, Germany3
  • Registered withLocal Court Hamburg, HRB 117883

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Berendsohn AG is a company active on the promotional products market with its headquarters in Hamburg and markets in 14 European states. According to the company, the annual turnover amounts to approx. EUR 80 million. Berendsohn AG maintains business relationships with more than 100,000 clients. The company exclusively sells its products b2b. There are no business relationships to private end-users. The majority of clients originates from small and medium-sized enterprises. Approximately 850 employees work for Berendsohn. The products are refined in three company-owned production centres, namely Hamburg, Brüsewitz and Milan.2

The story

The company was founded in 1833 as publishing house „B. S. Berendsohn“ by Bernhard Salomon Berendsohn. In the second half of the 19th century they sold mostly premium-quality copperplate engravings showing views of the city (so-called „Hamburgensien“).

After World War II, holocaust-survivor Günther Berendsohn (11 January 1916 – 20 September 1992; arrested 1944 – 1945 in the KZ Buchenwald) refounded the company. From then on they sold advertising material. The businessman extended the company from a one-man-business to a company with 50 employees and an annual turnover of 5 million DM. In the course of the company's expansion, in 1964 new markets in France, Italy, Norway, Austria, Sweden, and Switzerland where created. In the years before 2008, they created new markets in Denmark, Belgium, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, and Spain. 2007 the company extended its business segment into the sale of staff clothes.

From Wikipedia’s article on Berendsohn, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Products and brands

  • promotional merchandise

Listed on Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1833Founded Founded1

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