How it all started Of trout and underpants. The good 1950s. Austria joins the Council of Europe, Grace Kelly flickers in black and white on the television screens and Bing Crosby crackles from the shortwave receivers. Your name is either Karl, Oskar, Ilse or Gertrud and you proudly brush the dust off your shoulders as the reconstruction is in progress while you sit in your cocktail chair and chat about the wonder of Bern. About halfway through this beautiful decade it happens that such a Karl (Lustenau underwear manufacturer by trade) is fishing with his friend Oscar (a steel industrialist) in the Bregenz Forest. And as is the case with fishing, you have a lot of time to chat. And as it is in Vorarlberg, people like to talk a lot about the “business”. Consul Oscar Merz-Meyer puts his friend Dr. Karl Fulterer is close to abandoning his "business", namely the "Unterhösligschäfft" and preferring to devote himself to the (far more lucrative) steel processing industry. The enterprising Dr. Karl immediately got a taste for it and in addition to the 3 big trout that he catches that day, he has the feeling of having landed a much thicker fish when he founded his new company in the same year and from now on produces drawer runners. FULTERER GMBH Höchster Strasse 11 PO Box 67 6890 Lustenau , AUSTRIA T +43 5577 8130 F +43 5577 8130 - 129 info@fulterer.com http://www.fulterer.com FULTERER USA INC. 542 Townsend Avenue High Point NC 27263-4552 , USA T +1 336 431 - 4646 F +1 336 431 - 4620 info@fultererusa.com http://www.fultererusa.com FULTERER AG Industriestrasse 35 9430 St. Margrethen , SWITZERLAND T +41 71 74 761 - 61 F +41 71 74 761 - 29 info@fulterer.com http://www.fulterer.com