Sales people in wholesale and external trade always have up-to-the-minute information about the market situation. In the E/D/E, they organise the national and international purchasing and sale of tools, machinery, structural fittings and structural elements, together with steel and fixing systems, while using their foreign language skills. Advising our traders, handling payment procedures and organising advertising measures are also part of the day-to-day business.

Professional advertising opens up new channels of market development and is of central significance for our customers. Business assistants for marketing communication observe and analyse the markets, define target groups and create concepts for successful sales pitches. They develop advertising campaigns and catalogues, organise trade fairs and manage their organisational implementation including the calculation of budgets.

Media designers for digital and print media provide a fundamental contribution to the design and production of classic and digital advertising resources (brochures, advertisers, posters, catalogues, websites, DVD and CD-ROM applications). In their daily work, customer consultation is the focal point for the conceptual and technical design of media and the implementation of customer requirements.

Our qualified IT specialists in the field of system integration realise customer-specific information and communications solutions. To do this, they network hardware and software components into complex systems. As well as this, they advise and train users.

Our specialists for warehouse logistics store and dispatch the various products for our members and their customers from our wide stocked range. To do this, they operate transportation devices and data processing warehouse management systems, which are all state of the art. As well as the acceptance, storage, picking and dispatch of products, they carry out quality and inventory checks, processing stock lists and dispatch and shipping documents.