Established in the year 1900

In the year 1888 a young boy named Ernst G. Kistenmacher joined his father, a German merchant, visiting an international trade fair in the city of Leipzig in Germany. The vibrant mood of foreign languages spoken by foreign people doing business on the trade fair captivated the boy immediately. Especially a group of Arab merchants dressed in their traditional robes fascinated him. The young boy followed the men and watched them spreading out prayer rugs on the ground and then starting to pray.

Never ever in his life he could forget the image of these proud merchants interrupting their business to bow down in humility before God. And in that very moment he knew that one day he would visit their homeland to learn more about their culture, history and religion. A few years later, the boy had become a young man in the meantime, he embarked on a nearly one yearlasting business journey to the Middle East and India which was the groundbreaking of his company E.G. Kistenmacher GmbH & Co. KG.