Junghans – The German watch - Junghans opens first store in China
March, 2012
An official ceremony on 18 February 2012 saw Uhrenfabrik Junghans GmbH & Co. KG mark the opening of the first Junghans store at the 5-star Hotel Jin Jiang in Taicang, around 48 km north-west of Shanghai. With its modern and impressive architecture and international guest flair, the Hotel Jin Jiang is an ideal platform for the first store of the longstanding German watch brand.
The 130 guests at the ceremony welcomed by the Steim family, owners of Uhrenfabrik Junghans GmbH & Co. KG, and Manag-ing Director Matthias Stotz included various representatives of German companies with a local presence as well as leading representatives from local politics, business and the press, and the Chairman of the Taicang Development Area and Deputy Mayor of the city of Taicang, Wanli Zhu.
The opening of the store is not only a consequence of the founding of the wholly-owned subsidiary Junghans Watch (Taicang) Trading Co., Ltd., but also the impressive pioneering work from the year 1993. This was when Dr. Hans-Jochem Steim, with Kern-Liebers, managed to become the first German investor to establish a production facility in China as a whol-ly-owned subsidiary, thus avoiding the prevailing necessity of foreign companies to establish joint ventures. He was followed by numerous venerable German companies, which established themselves in the region. As a result of this significant com-mitment 2005 saw Dr. Steim awarded honorary citizenship of the city of Taicang, which lies in the province of Jiangsu. Thanks to its German Industrial Park, the city is viewed as a centre of German-Chinese co-operation.
Junghans – the German watch
For more than 150 years, the Junghans brand has stood for quality, reliability and passion. Based in Schramberg, Germany, the long-established, independent company designs and manufactures watches that set new standards and are held in high regard around the world. Having close ties to the company’s location and being committed to the values that Junghans embodies, the owners work hard to maintain traditions and to move purposefully forward to a successful future. Tradition and an unswerving spirit of innovation are also reflected in the design and engineering of the company’s watches. In this regard the spectrum embraces all current watchmaking technologies: from classic mechanical watches and quartz technology all the way to the company’s own radio-controlled and solar technology. With innovative products ‘Made in Germany’ and an international outlook, Junghans will continue in future to further develop the unique success story of the watch with the star.