Name

Hand & Werk

Legal name

Hand & Werk GmbH

Website

https://hand-und-werk.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Lich

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Core offering

Hand & Werk is a German group of craft/trade companies (Unternehmensgruppe) that coordinates independent member firms delivering planning services, technical building equipment, building security, and IT infrastructure. Member companies remain legally independent and collaborate project-by-project under the central coordinating entity to deliver integrated construction and building-services projects.

Product overview

Hand & Werk is a group of independent companies operating in various craft and trade sectors. The group offers coordinated services spanning planning, technical building equipment and systems, building security, and IT infrastructure. Member companies can collaborate project-based across different trades. The group also provides centralized administrative services including finance, payroll, marketing, and human resources. Their primary customer-facing offering is a group-wide job portal for recruiting. No specific named product modules or distinct software products are described in the available source material — the offering is centered on coordinated craft/trade services rather than a defined software product portfolio.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Planning services Project planning services delivered via member companies of the Hand & Werk group for construction and building-services projects in Germany.
• Technical building equipment (Technische Gebäudeausrüstung) Technical building equipment services (heating, ventilation, electrical, sanitary and related building-systems work) delivered via member companies of the Hand & Werk group for German residential and commercial clients.
• Building security services Building security services delivered via member companies of the Hand & Werk group for German residential and commercial clients.
• IT infrastructure services IT infrastructure services delivered via member companies of the Hand & Werk group for German residential and commercial clients.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Bilfinger SE: Large German-listed industrial-services provider with significant building-services and facility-management exposure. Overlaps with Hand & Werk's technical building equipment and maintenance activities as part of a broader services portfolio.
• STRABAG SE: One of Europe's largest construction groups with end-to-end building and civil-engineering services. Competes in the same German market with integrated multi-trade capabilities, but operates at substantially larger scale.

Direct peers

• Zech Group: German construction group with integrated building, civil engineering, and real-estate services organized around cross-trade coordination. Comparable integrated service-line breadth and group-of-companies structure.
• Leonhard Weiss: German family-owned construction group operating across civil engineering, road construction, and building trades with centralized shared services. Closely comparable in family ownership, multi-trade breadth, and German Mittelstand positioning.
• GOLDBECK GmbH: German construction services group that designs, builds, and services commercial and public buildings through an integrated multi-trade model very similar to Hand & Werk's planning-to-TGA approach. Among the most directly comparable German Mittelstand construction groups.
• Max Bögl: Large German construction and engineering group with broad building, infrastructure, and renewable-energy capabilities. Comparable integrated construction services, though larger scale.
• Köster GmbH: German construction company delivering integrated building projects across multiple trades including structural, technical building equipment, and finishing. Comparable integrated-trade delivery model and Mittelstand scale.
• Heberger GmbH: German construction company delivering multi-trade building projects including shell, technical building equipment, and interior fit-out. Comparable integrated-trade delivery and mid-market scale.

Others

• Dussmann Group: German facility-services group covering technical building management, security, and infrastructure services. Adjacent rather than directly competing, but relevant as a benchmark for facility-services bundling models.

Regional players

• Rhomberg Bau: Austrian construction group with multi-trade integrated delivery model comparable to Hand & Werk. Similar Mittelstand character but operates primarily in Austria/Switzerland rather than Germany.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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