With a long-standing tradition of excellence and experience in product design, toolmaking and production – dating back to the year 1923 – Reu Münz- und Medaillenmanufaktur GmbH is committed to designing and manufacturing customised coins, medals, badges, plaques and numerous other tailor-made products to the highest quality standards. Using different materials, sizes, types of stamping, embossing and finishing we are able to meet all our customers’ needs and expectations.

Based in Heubach in the east of Baden-Wuerttemberg, we currently employ sixty professional staff members in various departments (e.g. sales/customer service, graphic design, production, etc.).

Our longstanding customer relationships with market leaders e.g. in the coinage and automotive industry reflect our commitment to establishing long-term strategic partnerships based on trust and mutual benefit.

◊ Our philosophy ◊

First-class Swabian workmanship – innovative and customer-oriented!

What is the secret to our success? We believe in innovation, offering a wide range of product design variants, always welcoming new ideas, as well as in customer service excellence, including fast delivery service and good value for money.

Yet, most importantly, it is our customers, who are the driving factor of our success. Conceiving of our relationship to our customers as the single greatest asset we have, our management places particular emphasis on knowing and understanding our customers’ needs and wishes and on developing and implementing products and services tailored precisely to their needs and expectations.

Determined to promote continuous improvement within the entire organization, the management is committed to making every effort to achieve this goal, putting customer experience first by encouraging customer-centricity on all levels of the organization.

As a medium-sized enterprise, we are very much aware of our corporate social responsibility in this region of Baden-Wuerttemberg and fully embrace this responsibility as regional employer. Committed to operating our business in a socially responsible way to meet and exceed these legal, commercial and social expectations, we do not only comply with environmental laws and regulations but also try to integrate cultural, social and ethical concerns of all our stakeholders in our business operations.

Our company philosphy aims at sustainable growth through innovation and competitiveness, focusing on product branding and productivity.

We are committed to the following quality standards and goals:

• Delivering excellence in customer service
• Establishing customer and supplier relationships based on honesty, trust and mutual respect
• Offering / Promoting transparency in internal and external communications
• Meeting all our customers’ needs and expectations/ maximising customer satisfaction
• Maximising staff potential and motivation
• Providing staff with continuous training opportunities
• Complying with all safety and securtity regulations
• Protecting our environment, being committed to a responsible and sustainable use of resources
• Ensuring full compliance with laws and regulations
• Pursuing continuous improvement on all levels of our organization

These standards are subject to annual revision, being amended and optimized, adding individual measures and specifications when needed.

Berthold Krieg, Chief Executive Officer

◊ Company history ◊

… serving our customers for more than 90 years!

Fritz Reu (*1901), the founder of our company still bearing his name, having studied at Kunstakademie München to hone his skills as an artist, decided to start his own business. Inspired by his dream to offer customised products, he sets up a business in Pforzheim, located between Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, employing two assistants, to pursue his vision of creating custom coins, medals and souvenirs.

The following years are marked by continuous growth, the number of employees increasing to 15 by 1939. Drafted into war, Fritz Reu and his employees are forced to leave the company – with his wife taking over the business on a temporary basis, keeping up production during the war years with the help of dedicated work-from-home employees.

Just before Pforzheim is destroyed in one of the most devastating areal bombardments of WW II, flattening the Reu family home with bombs as well, the family relocates to Heubach, where they are re-united 90 kilometres east of Pforzheim. In the following year Fritz Reu and two of his employees start rebuilding the company in Heubach from scratch.

In 1952 the first factory is set up in Gmünder Straße in Heubach, where the production of our coins and medals is based to this day. However, numerous extensions and the addition of new buildings have since led to the expansion of our business premises, allowing for the integration of state-of the art production facilities / equipment.

The year 1972 marks a year of record employment – with the company employing 160 permanent members of staff and 30 work-from-home employees, specialised on applying finishing touches to the products. Yet, in the following years, the introduction of more efficient production methods and automation as well as outsourcing lead to a significant drop in staff numbers.

Today the company employs 60 production and administrative staff members. After years of managing the company’s fortunes, Heinz Fritz Reu, the son of Fritz Reu, decides to hand over the management of the company to former Head of Operations Berthold Krieg, appointed as Chief Executive Officer in 2015 and still heading up the company today.