BODUM® was founded in 1944 by Peter Bodum. Launching a
new business during the war wasn’t easy, and jobs were scarce,
but my father sensed it was time to venture out on his own.
He was incredibly fortunate to be granted an import license,
and by the late 1940s he had achieved great success. As he
looked to grow the business, he found new interest in coee
makers. The company’s first vacuum coee maker, MOCCA,
was introduced in the early fifties, but it wasn’t until 1958 with
the production of the SANTOS Vacuum Coee maker that
BODUM® became a household name for quality coee products,
and coee has been the major product group for BODUM®
ever since.
In the 1970s we introduced the now iconic French press,
which continues to be BODUM®’s most popular item. Today, the
majority of BODUM® coee makers are produced at our factory
in Portugal, where producing the highest quality products as
well as environmental responsibility and safe working conditions
are of the utmost importance.
In the years to come we are focused on expanding BODUM®’s
factory in Portugal and moving more and more BODUM® products
there, this move will make the entire process from design to
manufacturing a family operation. Another important part
of the BODUM® line is our collection of electric products that have
been introduced over the past few years. Centered around coee,
from boiling water to grinding beans to the perfect automatic
brew produced by our BISTRO b.over, the collection encompasses
everything the modern kitchen might need.
But no matter how much we grow, we will always reflect on our
core value that form should follow function.
Coee
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