Industry expertise in the tool trade

Strong range and smooth supply

E/D/E offers a wide range of relevant product lines and brands in the tool industry at the best conditions. In addition, there is a high-performance central warehouse for the optimal supply of our members and their customers. For our members, this means a significant reduction in their process and logistics costs.
E/D/E stocks around 250,000 items from around 1,000 contract suppliers at negotiated top conditions in the product areas of precision tools, hand tools and power tools,

Tools and machines for woodworking and machine tools for metalworking are available.

With a trading volume in the tools business of around 1.3 billion euros, E/D/E is the most efficient European association.

Voices of our members

In the tools business, efficient logistics and increasingly innovative supply systems for industrial customers are crucial to success. We feel that we are in very good hands with E/D/E.

Markus Lutz, Eduard Lutz (from left),
Managing Director, Eduard Lutz Schrauben-Werkzeuge GmbH
E/D/E member since 1986

Achieving more together

Sales concepts
www.ede.de/en/central-services/sales-concepts/plus-1/

PLUS 1 WERKZEUG is the sales concept for the tools and hardware trade.
This concept is based on the so-called local supplier strategy of member companies whose target groups are tradesmen and private end consumers.
The marketing focus is on sales via retail outlets.

UNION’s product range includes hand and precision tools as well as power and pneumatic tools.
The focus is on supplying industrial and trade customers.

Our highlights for more performance in the sector

Central services

Unique sector networking

Events and functions
January 2024A strengthening community
Even more FORMAT for PREMIUM: In June, the E/D/E distributor community set the course for a successful future with various strategic decisions. One key: optimizing the external image as a high-performance group – with the established exclusive brand as an anchor. At the PREMIUM general meeting in Treuen, Saxony, advisory board spokesman Josef Bröckling, Managing Director of Ullner u. Ullner, and the E/D/E Managing Director Dr. Christoph Grote (Managing Director Goods), Dr. Arno Lammerts…
July 2023Living practice
For distributors and members of the UNION Group, the Sales Forum is the most efficient way to maintain contacts and get to know products. At this year’s sales forum on 9. and 10 May, a good 350 visitors from the UNION Group met 40 E/D/E concept suppliers. “This is real-life practice,” says Markus Bielefeld, who is responsible for the UNION Group at E/D/E. “For us as organizers, practical relevance is very important. This means that the industry is given a platform to showcase its products and…
May 2023UNION: General Assembly: figures, data, facts and personal exchange
For the first time, the members of all UNION sales concepts – factory equipment, tools and power tools – were invited to one location at the same time. The plenary meeting was held in Mainz over two days in March, with the first day dedicated to UNION factory equipment and the second day to UNION tools and power tools. In addition to a review of the year, the approximately 130 participants on both days were given information on the sales situation as well as facts and figures on UNION…
October 2022Industry meeting again at last !
When the heart of the production connection trade beats every 30 minutes, then E/D/E is the industry meeting place. “Finally back” – that was the tenor at the Leipzig trade fair after the pandemic-related break, during which it became clear how valuable face-to-face conversations can be. The decision-makers from the PVH and the manufacturing industry once again had plenty of opportunity to do so over two days in line with the tried-and-tested basic concept of the “Messe verkehrt”. With hybrid…

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    Udo ThammHead of Supplier / Product Group Management Tools & PREMIUM FORMAT GROUP
    Fred StröterHead of business division industrial B2B systems (UNION, HANDWERKSTADT, EURO-DIY)