Professional Career

• 1952 – 1955
  Apprenticeship as a commercial wholesaler Attended the commercial and vocational training school
  
• 31.08.1955
  Commercial Apprenticeship Certificate
  
• 1955 – 1957
  Field sales activities for the Adolf Würth Company, Künzelsau
  
• 2007
  The Combined Berner Group celebrated its 50th Anniversary

Company Foundations

• 01. 04.1957
  At the age of 21, Albert Berner started his own fasteners wholesale business in the cellar of an old house in Künzelsau
  
• 1969
  First subsidiary set up outside Germany: Berner Belgium
  
• 01.09.1972
  Founding of BTI Germany
  
• 2009
  Total of 33 trading and production companies in Europe, China and Taiwan

Honors & Awards

• 1988 Silver Medal of the State of Upper Austria, Austria
  
• 1995 Award of the ‘Bundesverdienstkreuz’ (Federal Cross of Merit), Germany
  
• 1998 Award of the Ring of Honor by the town of Braunau, Austria
  
• 2000 Business Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  
• 2004 Appointed ‘Knight of the Legion of Honor’ in France
  
• 2005 Award of the ‘Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse’ (Cross of Merit, First Class) of the Federal Republic of Germany
  
• 2008 The road leading to Berner France is renamed “Rue Albert Berner”

Biography

• 03.04.2009: Publication of Albert Berner’s biography „My Way- My Life“