History
Landis+Gyr was originally known as Electrotechnisches Institut Theiler and Co., established in 1896. In 1905 it was renamed in Landis & Gyr, after Heinrich Landis and Karl Heinrich Gyr, who followed the Founder Richard Theiler as managers. Landis+Gyr has been designing and manufacturing a range of metering products, systems and services for electricity, heat and gas to energy utilities around the world. In 1924 Landis+Gyr experienced global expansion by opening its first overseas offices in New York and Australia. Besides metering products, with the foundation of Cerberus Ltd. in 1940 Landis+Gyr expanded into fire safety products. Cerberus was later acquired by Elektrowatt Ltd. and is today a part of Siemens Building Technologies.
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