Timeline

For those who dislike window cleaning, Peter Dussmann has a solution: Outsourcing saves time, money, own personnel and allows a company to concentrate on its core activities.

Peter Dussmann makes a clean sweep in operating theaters too. In 1968, Pedus Service enters the hospital cleaning market. The first client is in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Today, the Dussmann Group is a specialist for hospital hygiene.

Peter Dussmann establishes his first subsidiary outside Germany – in Austria. The company develops swiftly.

Peter Dussmann places value on know-how transfer, on the job or, as on this photograph, in the course of further training. Improvements and innovations are passed on and introduced quickly.

One day, Dussmann receives a request for a service package – from cleaning to security – and all of this in the middle of the Saudi Arabian desert. Facility Management is born and takes its first steps in Saudi Arabia and Brazil.

Catering is a new addition to the service range, first only in hospitals. In 1982, the company starts to provide catering to staff restaurants

Peter Dussmann brings the idea for a new company division back from the USA. Dussmann Office offers fully furnished offices, conference rooms, office services and innovative solutions for business needs. Today, clients can even rent virtual offices.

The opening of the newly constructed Dussmann headquarters in Pilotystraße, Munich is marked by a celebration. The building is a reflection of the company philosophy: modern, future-oriented and well-planned.

The fall of the Berlin wall signals a period of growth for the Dussmann Group: The company is one of the first to create thousands of new jobs in East Germany.

As the iron curtain opens, it becomes possible to found subsidiaries in Hungary (1991) and in the Czech Republic (1992). It is the beginning of a new era in which the Dussmann Group expands to Eastern Europe.

Personnel is specifically trained to carry out security, cleaning and attendance where art is displayed. Amongst the museums under their care is the Pergamon museum, Berlin where Nofratete resides.

Germany’s largest media store, Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus opens. Due to the wide range of goods, its professional sales staff and its exceptionally long opening hours, it attracts millions of clients each year.

On 4th December, during his visit to Asia, Peter Dussmann opens the central kitchen at Cho Ray Hospital in Ho-Chi-Minh-City (Saigon), Vietnam.

The number of Kursana facilities grow to 80. Kursana is now Germany’s leading private provider of nursing and care services for the elderly.

The years of experience gathered in hygiene cleaning pay off. Clean-room cleaning becomes a part of the Dussmann Group’s service spectrum.

Catherine von Fürstenberg-Dussmann opens the first KulturKindergarten in Berlin. The in-house company child care is characterized by an emphasis on arts and culture, a bilingual approach and long opening hours to suit the working times of parents.