- CEO
- Tim Herder
- Full Time Employees
- 609
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Pulp & paper
- Address
- Südstrasse 47 Gummersbach NW Germany 51645
- IPO Date
- May 18, 1998
- Business
- A.S. Création Tapeten AG manufactures and distributes wallpapers, decorative borders, and furnishing fabrics across Europe and select international markets; its Wallpaper segment, which accounts for over 90% of sales, produces non-woven wallcoverings, high-quality panels such as Dado Panel, and custom solutions including flame-retardant designs for architects and commercial projects; the Furnishing Fabrics segment markets curtains and decorative textiles through its wholly-owned subsidiary Indes Fuggerhaus Textil GmbH (now Indes Fuggerhaus GmbH). The company offers brands including innova, A.S. Creation, livingwalls, Architects Paper, Lutèce, GPFB, and Montecolino, with a portfolio exceeding 6,000 articles in approximately 80 collections featuring screen printing, gravure printing, and digital printing technologies; recent product launches encompass the peel-and-stick DesignDrop collection in October 2024, the METROPOLITAN STORIES - HOT SPOTS collection in January 2025, and 2025 season previews presented during Autumn 2024 Collection Preview events. Founded in 1974 by Franz Jürgen Schneider and headquartered in Gummersbach, Germany, with production facilities in Wiehl-Bomig, Germany, and historical operations in Russia, A.S. Création maintains subsidiaries and sales offices in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Russia, and Belarus, serving wholesale, retail, painting trade, architecture, interior design, and property development sectors amid a challenging economic environment evidenced by an 8.2% sales decline to €111.3 million in fiscal 2024.