History

On 23rd September 1963, Sijne Nauta started his commercial activities as a self-employed entrepreneur from Gouda, the Netherlands. His customers consisted out of key specialists, the Do-It-Yourself (DIY)-, hardware- and tool shops.

“You really have no idea what you are starting, I had no idea how this adventure would turn out. Our first warehouse was the trunk of my car, which was loaded in the morning and which had to be empty at night. Simply selling everything you have.”

The present organisation shows what kind of a development the company has gone through since 1963. A large increase in the number of customers, suppliers, products, turnover, staff and a number of moves to always larger buildings characterize the past of the family company Nauta. In 1993 Nauta has intentionally chosen for a division structure, in which the commercial activities were divided over three different divisions, which operate independently from the same office in Barneveld, operating under the names Nauta b.v., Nauta Security Storage b.v. and Nauta Sign b.v., of which the latter has become fully independent through a management buy-out in 2004. In 1997 founder and managing director Sijne Nauta has passed on the general management to his son Wybe Jan Nauta.

Also thanks to the efforts of its employees, faithful customers and many excellent suppliers, Nauta has been able to develop itself to a healthy company with unique product-market combinations, both nationally as internationally. Quality, service and reliability have been the key words for more than 40 years!

Important events trough the years