About Thermador Groupe

Thermador Groupe SA, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the distribution business in France and internationally. The company’s subsidiaries are interfaces between manufacturers and wholesalers, DIY superstores, factories, swimming pool professionals, e-commerce sites and market places. The company offers the private housing, collective housing and tertiary sector building markets all the accessories and equipment they need for water circulation in heating and sanitation facilities. It also offers comprehensive ranges to control inside air quality and temperature. Its subsidiaries respectively serve wholesalers, DIY superstores, web platforms and certain manufacturers. The company is a player on the French market for domestic pumps for professional distribution circuits and in DIY superstores. It sells air compressors, generators, welding units, chargers and high-pressure cleaners to major retail and via the Web to well-informed DIYers. The company uses its own brands (Mecafer), those of its customers, and also brands used under licence by its suppliers (Michelin, Stanley). Under the Nuair and Fini brands, the company also sells its piston and screw compressor to professionals in the industry, which complete the reservoir and valve ranges already distributed to wholesalers of industrial supplies, compressed air specialists and distributors of supplies for the automotive industry. Six of the company’s subsidiaries distribute manual and motorized valves, flaps, filters, connectors and regulation and control accessories for maintenance work or new installations. The company has present with almost all the specialised retailers, wholesalers in industrial valves and industrial supplies. It is progressively building its product range. Sodeco Valves, based in Belgium, primarily targets major industrial sites. The company serves 31,000 customers in France and abroad. Its customers are wholesalers in heating and sanitation, pumps, plumbing fittings, industrialists for Sodeco Valves and all DIY players for Dipra, Rousseau, Mecafer and Domac. Some of the company’s customers have grown through external growth operations. Others opt for organic growth. In any event, they are very diverse, such as independent or subsidiaries of listed or family groups; international, national or regional in terms of organisation and logistics; and grouped or independent for purchasing, marketing and communications. They include ADEO group, Saint-Gobain Distribution, Les Mousquetaires, Pompac Developpement, Descours and Cabaud group, Fransbonhomme, Mr Bricolage, Kingfisher, Qerys, Richardson, Rexel, members of Algorel, and Socoda. The company’s real estate is the property of S.C.I. Thely, which is 99.9% owned by the company. Its offices are located 25 kilometers east of Lyon in the Chesnes Tharabie in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier business park (Isère-38). The company’s Domac subsidiary owns a building in Vierzon of 3,857 square meters on a plot of 9,993 square metres. Sodeco Valves has a 5,340 square meter building in Ternat (Brussels) on a plot of 8,450 square meters. Etablissements Edouard Rousseau owns 9,345 square meters of buildings located in Etigny (Sens) of on a plot of 47,766 square meters. The company’s customers include original equipment manufacturers; DIY superstores, commercials websites, and market places; swimming pool professionals; wholesalers, commercial websites, and market places; private individuals; plumbers, installers, operators, administrations, and public works; and air treatment engineering. The company owns, controls, groups together and drives companies distributing materials and accessories for fluid circulation in buildings and industry; and large tooling for the retail and pro markets. Strategy The key elements of the company’s strategy are to continue the integration process for recently-acquired companies; develop digital tools; develop its digital skills and tools so that its products can be sold via digital channels; and foster and support internal initiatives to protect the environment. History Thermador Groupe SA was founded in 1968.