Introduction to the Swarovski Group

This storied piece of Austrian entrepreneurial history began in 1895 when, after inventing the world’s first electric grinding machine for jewelry stones, Daniel Swarovski established the family-owned company in the state of Tyrol. Since then, the name Swarovski has grown synonymous worldwide for clearest glass crystal, precision abrasives and a brilliant spirit of innovation, as the original enterprise continued branching out into additional lines of business.

Today, the companies of the Swarovski Group supply the world with polished jewelry stones and crystal products, grinding and cutting tools, as well as sports optics. Even if the product range seems quite diverse, all companies in the Group share an important unifying link, namely the formidable production engineering know-how that has grown out of the Swarovski family’s quest for ever higher precision.