26 October 2011, 13:18 CET (
by Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG )
An interview with Hartmut Jenner, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Management Board of the Kärcher Group was published in the recent issue of the German economy magazine “Wirtschaftswoche”. The complete interview was released on the website of the Wirtschaftswoche:
Interview on Wirtschaftswoche.de
You can find an English translation here
In the printed magazine, a shortened version of this text was published.
Tags: lawsuit, Tennant
19 September 2011, 13:00 CET (
by Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG )
Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG has filed lawsuits against national companies of its competitor Tennant. The legal dispute in Germany, Belgium and the UK involves false and misleading advertising made claims by Tennant for scrubber-driers that use the so-called ec-H2O technology.
Kärcher is taking legal action against several advertising claims made by Tennant, in particular the assertion that ordinary tap water can be converted into “active water” in scrubber-driers and that then has the same effect as a powerful cleaning agent. This process is said to create its own “powerful cleaning agent” with the result that an all-purpose cleaning agent no longer needs to be purchased. These claims were investigated scientifically by an independent research institute and have been refuted in an detailed expert report.
Scrubber-driers are cleaning machines for the wet cleaning of hard floors. They combine three functions: spreading the cleaning fluid, scrubbing the floor and vacuuming the dirty water.
Tags: ec-H2O technology, lawsuit, scrubber-driers, Tennant
