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Trainees from Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG view a model house of the 3rd millennium B.C. The first exhibition of the Bronze Age town of Qatna excavations outside of Syria was sponsored by Würth.

Reinhold Würth values curiosity. That is why he had to see the excavated fallen town of Qatna, a major trading metropolis between the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age.
Würth supported the first exhibit of Qatna outside of Syria. Würth Group employees and trainees viewed the exhibit at the Landesmuseum Württemberg in Stuttgart, Germany.

Does curiosity drive performance?
“Yes,” responded Würth in the Würth Group’s 2009 annual report. “High performance in fact. It provides the impulse to get to the bottom on things.”
“Even as a child on vacation with my parents in the Black Forest I always wanted to know what was behind the mountains and around the bend. I have never lost this childish curiosity,” Würth was quoted in the annual report.
“Albert Einstein said of himself that he wasn’t particularly gifted, just incredibly curious. I am convinced that curiosity plays a major role in the success of the company. Being curious means you have to enter unknown territory, to see what is possible and achievable. Your have to strive for new things. New products, new connections, new knowledge, new markets.”

Würth took over the family fastener distributorship founded in 1945 at the age of 19 when his father died in 1954.
Today Künzelsau, Germany-based Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG has 397 companies in 84 countries. Würth supplies more than 100,000 products with 2009 worldwide sales totaling EUR 7.52 billion (US$9.7b).
Würth, 75, now chairs the supervisory board for the Würth Group’s Family Trusts. He handed over the chair of the company’s Advisory Board to his daughter, Bettina Würth, in 2006.

Reinhold Würth has long been interested in “new worlds, and especially those that open up through art,” and has built the Würth Collection to more than 12,500 works of art displayed at 14 Würth museums and associated galleries in Europe.
“Creativity in new directions applies to art and entrepreneurship in equal measure,” Würth explained. ©2010 GlobalFastenerNews.com

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