About LANDMANN

About LANDMANN

LANDMANN is one of the leading European barbecue brands and is active worldwide with its own sales and buying companies, in addition to Europe,  United States, Australia and China.

With the marketing of Canadian barbecue equipment, in 1966 the company’s founders already laid the foundation stone for the barbecue boom in Germany. The company started its international expansion from the company’s headquarters in Osterholz-Scharmbeck near Bremen.

With its product range the company demonstrates how innovative the industry can be. Today LANDMANN stands more than ever before for BBQ diversity, in equipment as well as accessories. Under the umbrella of a strong brand, LANDMANN creates experience-oriented barbecue worlds, tailored to the lifestyle of the various consumer groups – Your World of BBQ.

LANDMANN was founded in 1966 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck. Here, at the gates of the Hanseatic city of Bremen, is where we have been concentrating on the world of barbecuing for over 50 years. LANDMANN what the first company to introduce barbecuing equipment to the German market on a large scale. Since then barbecuing has become one of the most popular leisure activities around. This makes LANDMANN a co-founder of a trend that is becoming popular across all social classes.

From humble beginnings, LANDMANN has become one of Europe’s largest suppliers of barbecuing and life in the garden. Despite its international activities, however, LANDMANN has always remained true to its Hanseatic roots.

LANDMANN is still an entirely family-owned company. Our main concern is to maintain the sustainable development of the company in the future to fulfill our responsibility to our customers, our business partners and our employees.

Worldwide presence, regional competence

LANDMANN is on four continents with 15 sales companies in more than 35 countries actively. And we have been on the market for a while: LANDMANN Scandinavia AB, can already look back at a more than 25-year-old distribution experience.

Our vision

With our barbecue products we want to offer every

consumer group the absolute best – and through functionality and equipment we can adapt to different tastes and lifestyles. To achieve this, we at LANDMANN use all our knowledge and our passion. Quality is our claim, experience our capital.

Our mission

Since we were founded in 1966 we have designed and marketed high quality and user-friendly barbecue and garden products with experience and pride.
We combine the requirements of our trade customers with the wishes of the consumers and the goals of our employees.

We consolidate expertise in production, design, development and marketing in an efficient network, which enables us to create attractive products with a good price/performance ratio for the benefit of our customers.

Our products can be found in stores operated by our partners involved with the construction and DIY industry, the specialised garden sector and the food trade.


Company Heritage

20 September 1966

Foundation of the company

The company founders Bernd Hockemeyer and Hermann Landmann bring the barbecue to Germany. Consumers are eagerly excited for the new pastime.
1970

Osterholz-Scharmbeck

The LANDMANN company building at the Osterholz-Scharmbeck location in the early years: from here, the course for the international orientation of the company is set.
In the beginning of the 1970's

Barbecuing in the 70’s was often a spit barbecue

For spit-roasting poultry and sausages, popular in the 1970s, LANDMANN develops its own motorized rotisserie devices for its quality barbecues. These are manufactured in Germany while the engine is produced in Taiwan: the first example of international cooperation.
1971

Grill logo – Grillchef

A maple leaf in the first company logo refers to Canada, the country of origin of the first grills.  
1975

Cast iron grills. The early advantages of cast iron grills are discovered.

German Engineering has always been the basis for innovative products that are produced in international production facilities. Here we see the cast iron grill, whose material advantages were implemented by LANDMANN as one of the first brand manufacturers. Also new: the hotplate function.
1978
Foundation of the LANDMANN company in the USA, home of the BBQ.  
1978

The first office in Hong Kong

Establishment of the first purchasing company, in the proximity of Hong Kong.  
In the beginning of the 1980's

Development of the first gas barbecue devices

LANDMANN concentrated at an early stage on the development of gas barbecues, where they marketed the first gas barbecue model in 1978.  
1980
In the 1980s the company continued to grow and also expanded through the acquisition of companies.
1984

Development of the first enamelled kettle grills

Competence, experience, innovation: With the enamelling of the fire bowl and lid, LANDMANN achieved a leap in the quality of kettle grills.
1984

Foundation the LANDMANN society in the UK

Foundation of LANDMANN UK.
March 1993
Foundation of LANDMANN Skandinavia AB.
1995

Development of the first Flatbed-gas barbecues

Development of the flatbed gas BBQ series which is particularly popular in Scandinavia.
1997
The market potential of gas barbecue models was already recognized by LANDMANN at a very early stage and a corresponding range of models developed.  
2001
Additional growth through the acquisition of the Peiga company.  
2007
Development of the first generation of the Avalon premium gas barbecue series, which stands for the continuity of LANDMANN brand appliances like no other.
2010

Development of the Black Pearl series

The internationally patented Heat-System makes the kettle barbecue height-adjustable.  
2010

Foundation of LANDMANN France

Foundation of the LANDMANN-national company in France.  
2012
Market introduction of the Triton gas bbq developed by LANDMANN and the winner of several awards.  
2015
Laying the foundations for the new Research & Development-Centre in Guangzhou, China.  
2015

PTS

International patenting of the Power Thermal Spreading-Systems (PTS-System) developed by LANDMANN, which set new performance standards for gas barbecues.  
2016
50 years of LANDMANN – LANDMANN expressed its thanks with special editions and events.  
2016
Foundation of LANDMANN Australia PTY LTD. The German barbecue brand is thus represented on the fifth continent.