One of the oldest global trademarks on the record, ZWILLING J.A. Henckels was founded in 1731 when knife-maker Peter Henckels registered the ZWILLING (German for TWIN) logo with the Cutlers Guild of Solingen, Germany. His son, Johann Abraham Henckels, was a visionary who gave the company its namesake and opened its first store in Berlin in 1818.
In 1883, the foundation for global expansion was established with the opening of a New York location. Additional stores followed in Vienna in 1884, as well as Copenhagen and Rotterdam in 1897. In 1909, ZWILLING J.A. Henckels set up its first subsidiary business in the United States. Others soon followed in Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Japan, Italy, France, Spain, China and Taiwan, Great Britain and Brazil.
Today, The ZWILLING Group has a tightly-knit distribution network in more than 100 countries and supplies retailers and food service distributors around the world with its products. Within the last decade, the ZWILLING Group has grown to include MIYABI Japanese cutlery, Staub French enamelled cast iron cookware and Demeyere Belgian stainless steel cookware.