1907
 Joseph Wagner, the son of a residential
 property owner and founder of the
 company, is born in Augsburg, Germany.

 1946
 After the end of the Second World War
 Joseph Wagner trades in repaired machine
 tools and also in goods which are needed
 in the post-war period (combs, wood glues,
 and glazing putty).

 1947
 The WAGNER company is first entered in
 the trade register as “a trading
 company with limited liability”.

 1953
 Development of the first electric spray
 gun “Whisker”. Therewith the WAGNER
 enterprise as we know it today is started.

 1954
 First volume production of electric hand
 tools, such as a grease gun with pressure
 regulation up to 800 bar.

 1959
 The company grows to a turnover of
 approx. 1.4 million Euros and 57
 employees. A three floor factory
 building with staff canteen and a
 block of flats for employees arises.

 1964
 The construction of a diaphragm type
 airless paint spraying machine begins a
 new chapter in the story of the company.
 The market share of this new generation
 of products climbs steadily.

 1970
 WAGNER is world-wide the largest manu-
 facturer of electrical paint spray guns
 and Europe’s largest manufacturer of air-
 less high pressure paint-spraying
 equipment.

 1971
 The headquarter in Friedrichshafen-
 Fischbach is extended. 400 people are
 now employed there. Joseph Wagner
 founds another independent manufactu-
 ring company, WAGNER International AG
 in Altstätten, Switzerland. Monthly
 over 20.000 units of electric spraying
 equipment are produced and exported into
 over 80 countries.

 1972
 Joseph Wagner sets up the Joseph-
 Wagner-Foundation in Friedrichshafen,
 which ensures the preservation and
 continuation of the company and makes
 it possible to provide support for
 charitable bodies. For the largest
 sales market, the USA, its own sales
 and marketing company in Minnesota
 is set up.

 1975
 The Swiss Joseph-Wagner-Foundation
 is established.

 1977
 With the formation of a department for
 industrial painting systems the leap into
 industry is made. Joseph Wagner is awar-
 ded the Cross of the Order of the Federal
 Republic with Ribbon.

 1978
 Production start in the Minneapolis
 plant, USA. In Germany, the “WAGNER
 plant design dept” in Stuttgart ensures
 the growth of the industrial business.

 1981
 Building of a new production and
 administration site in Markdorf. At this
 point the number of employees rises to
 over 1200 and exports are going to over
 100 countries throughout the world.

 1986
 Günter R. Cott is appointed the Managing
 Director of J. WAGNER GmbH. With the
 purchase of the ESB company WAGNER
 becomes the European market leader in
 powder coating. The product range is
 continuously expanded and technologically
 improved. This is how WAGNER achieves
 technical leadership in this product
 sector throughout the world.

 1987
 Death of the company founder
 Joseph Wagner.

 1993/1994
 WAGNER Czechia is established. Further
 acquisitions in the sphere of powder
 coating business follow in the USA
 (WAGNER Systems), in Italy (WAGNER Itep)
 and in Japan.

 1995
 The product range in the consumer area
 is continually extended with paint
 roller equipment, heat guns, wallpaper
 strippers and solar lamps for the garden.
 Here too, the expansions are achieved
 by self-development and by
 acquisitions of other companies.
 In the industrial division the
 company Colora in Italy is acquired.

 1998
 In Shanghai, China a WAGNER subsidiary
 is established. With the company Theo
 Krebs in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
 another acquisition is made.

 1999
 WAGNER acquires the TITAN Tool Company
 in New Jersey, USA and thus becomes the
 second largest supplier in the US market
 of paint spraying equipment for
 contractors.

 2000
 A new manufacturing business is founded
 in the Czech Republic which concentrates
 on producing consumer products at
 favourable cost levels. In the same year,
 the WAGNER GROUP is restructured.
 WAGNER International AG is the holding
 company for all operating units. The
 owners of the holding company are the
 two Joseph-Wagner-foundations in
 Switzerland and in Germany.

 2001
 Günter R. Cott hands over responsibility
 to Mr. Thorsten Koch, his successor in his
 function as Chairman of the Board.
 At this time the group of companies has
 1700 employees and has achieved a
 sales turnover of 350 Million Euro.

 2002
 With the company Walther-Pilot in
 Wuppertal, Germany WAGNER takes over
 an enterprise, which covers also the
 air spray gun sector.

 2005
 WAGNER achieves a breakthrough in mist-
 free spraying on building facades in an
 exemplary research and development co-
 operation with paint producer CAPAROL,
 two Universities, two Fraunhofer-
 Institutes and seven painting businesses.
 The “Nespri-Tec-System” receives the
 “Award for outstanding work in the trade”
 from the Minister for the Economy and
 Labour of the Federal Republic of Germany.

 2006
 More than 50 years after the foundation
 of the company WAGNER, a world
 enterprise with approx. 1700 employees,
 9 production sites, 11 international sales
 and marketing companies and approx. 50
 international WAGNER agencies has been
 created out of the modest start all those
 years ago.