Villeroy & Boch
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Villeroy & Boch is the world's largest manufacturer of ceramics.[citation needed] The company's main seat is in Mettlach, Germany.
The company began in the tiny French village of Audun le Tiche where François Boch set up a pottery company with his three sons in 1748. Later the company moved to nearby Luxembourg, where it still operates a china factory today.
The present Group Chairman of Villeroy & Boch, Wendelin von Boch-Galhau, is an eighth generation descendant of the founder, and one of the five largest shareholders. Since 1990 the company has been listed on the German stock market, but the voting capital is still in the hands of family descendants.
The company is famous worldwide for innovative designs of co-ordinated tableware, glassware, cutlery and accessories.
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