The Danish pump conglomerate based in Bjerringbro, Denmark – Grundfos -, has recently been awarded the Supplier Award by the Bosch Group, one of the world’s leading suppliers of high-technology products and services.

Grundfos sells nearly 1.3 million circulating pumps to Bosch every year, which uses these pumps for gas and oil boilers for single-family house heating facilities, reveals the company’s press release. Every day, around 6,000 pumps are shipped from the Grundfos plants in Denmark, England and France to 19 different boiler plants in the Bosch Group. “To Grundfos, it is both a gift and a challenge to have a customer that is so huge and demanding, because if we can make Bosch happy, we improve our chances to also make a lot of other customers happy”, said Henrik Bonde, Division Director at Grundfos, as a response to having received the award.

In its evaluation of Grundfos, Bosch has in particular focused on reliability, quality and price. But communication and the ability to cooperate, as well as the will to constantly improve, have also carried a lot of weight in Bosch’s decision to single out Grundfos as the winner of the Bosch Supplier Award 2005/2006. Søren Ø. Sørensen, Grundfos’s CEO, sees the award as a standard indicating how far the pump conglomerate has come in the global elite. “Last year, our Danish production company received the Business Excellence Award and with this significant recognition from a world-class company that I deeply respect, we have managed to prove that our company has advanced into the global super league", he concluded.