Quality gained from experience: In 1920, Paul Giesen and Eugen Forsthoff set up their cutlery and tools production company in Solingen.

It wasn´t long before products by Giesen & Forsthoff were being marketed throughout Europe and overseas. Since that time, the brands G+F and Timor have come to stand for quality products that meet the most exacting of standards around the globe.

In 1945 the co-founder Forsthoff left the company.What remains is the well-known name.The Giesen family alone has been at the company´s helm since then and now heads the firm in the third generation.The company headquarters in Solingen has been continually extended and modernized.The range of products, too, is constantly being adapted to our customers´ requirements and wishes.

Giesen & Forsthoff today is a specialist of renown and a global exporter of a full range of top-quality hairstylist and manicure articles.We are one of the very few companies in the world that have the precision and expertise required to produce open razors.This is in addition to our selection of top quality pocket knives, multifunction tools and specialised articles - all of which can be individually customized with embossed, printed or etched branding.

Giesen & Forsthoff is a member of the BSCI (Business Social Compliance Initiative), a new internationally recognized process on Social Compliance. The implementation of social standards in the area of responsibility, in accordance with a uniform procedure of the direct - importing retail trade from various European countries.

Importing trading companies from different European countries developed the uniform BSCI Monitoring-System. The Business Social Compliance Initiative is the broadest business-driven platform for the improvement of social compliance in the global supply chain of commerce. More than 240 companies are already member of the BSCI and share a comprehensive monitoring and qualification system covering all products sourced from any country. Social audits to be conducted within this system will be recognised in the future by all trading customers involved.

Detailed information on the BSCI System can be found at www.bsci-eu.org