#The 10 largest European Kitchen Companies

Many of you have asked me for a top 10 list of European kitchen companies. Being that in my mind Top 10 is not just about company size and/or sales volume (especially in today s economy ) I m still working on that list for you and sooner or later it will be posted.

In the mean time, with the help of a good friend (thank you, A.S.), I was able to come up with the list of the largest companies in the European kitchen brands for you.

The difficult part about coming up with such a list is how do you measure size, or I should say by what parameters. I see, some European companies are actually part of a Group they own several kitchen brands/factories, not necessarily all in the same country (!). Some manufacture kitchens but also sell retail, through a chain of factory owned stored. They may produce less kitchens, then another company, but if you add their retail sales, to their wholesale figures and then add appliances (manufactured by appliance companies, counters and even labor, the comparison is simply not easy.

So with the above in mind, the only way to create the list (without going nuts) is really just by total sales figures (Europeans like to use the term Turnover ). So here is the list:

1. Nobia Group (Sweden) There are many companies in this group, like Poggenpohl and Pronorm (Germany), HTH (Denmark), Marbodal (Sweden), Sigdal (Norway), EWE (Austria), plus, they also have a retail-network in the group Magnet (UK).

2. Nobilia (Germany) one company.

4. Cuisine Schmidt (France) including a retail-network.

5. Häcker (Germany) one company.

6. Nolte (Germany) one company.

7. Mobalpa (France) including a retail-network.

8. Schüller (Germany) one company.