needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . september 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message reichle & de massari holding ag type public company industry information and communications technology founded 1964 founder hans reichle renato de massari headquarters wetzikon switzerland key people michel riva ceo johannes hans hess chairman of the supervisory board revenue 205.1 chf around 188 million 2015 number of employees 816 december 31st 2015 website www.rdm.com reichle & de massari ag r & m based in wetzikon is an independent swiss family business specializing in information and communications technology . the company concentrates on the development and manufacturing of cabling technology for communications networks . the company is fully owned by the reichle family and has more than 800 employees . the company s annual sales in 2015 amounted to chf 205.1 million around 188 million . contents 1 history 2 products 3 internationalisation 4 corporate film 5 references 6 external links history edit r & m was founded by hans reichle and renato de massari in 1965 as a two man business . the two employees of switzerland s telecommunications company came up with the idea of a new easier to install telephone outlet which to this day is known as reichle connector in switzerland . originally r & m was set up to develop this product and market it throughout switzerland . the company then broadened its range of products and services to cabling technology for data and voice networks as a whole based on copper and optical fiber cabling glass and polymer fibers . one of the firm s core products is its cat . 6 module for ethernet networks which is widely used in networks all over the world . the product s success was founded on among other things its sales partnership with ibm which lasted many years 1993 1999 . following the death of de massari his business partner hans reichle took overall charge . in 2005 reichle retired to the board of directors and handed over operational responsibilities to his two sons martin and peter who ran the company in their respective positions as ceo and coo until august 2012 . michel riva became the company s first ever externally appointed ceo on 1 september 2012 . supervisory board members martin and peter reichle continue to represent the interests of the family owners . although r & m is a joint stock company it is not quoted on the stock exchange . products edit r & m designs products for private networks data centers and public network carriers using network cabling technology . their portfolio for public network carriers includes fttx solutions for central office outside plant and on site applications . they also offers fiber to the home ftth products . the firm is a gold sponsor of the fiber to the home council europe an organisation promoting the installation of ultra fast fiber optic networks linking companies and private households . citation needed r & m headquarter cube in wetzikon zh switzerland internationalisation edit r & m subsidiaries have been established amongst others in germany the netherlands france italy spain hungary poland bulgaria dubai singapore india and brazil . since 2016 there has been a subsidiary in the usa . in many other countries r & m has distribution partners . around 70 percent of the turnover is from outside of switzerland . citation needed in september 2008 the group s first management and logistics hub in the asia pacific region came into operation in singapore . its middle eastern hub in dubai was opened in 2009 ; its western european office in the dutch town of apeldoorn in 2011 . an assembly plant in the dubai airport free zone began manufacturing products for the middle east africa mea market and asia in july 2012 . in the bulgarian capital sofia the company opened an additional fiber optics production facility in october 2012 . an saudi office in riyadh was opened in 2012 . in february 2016 the firm acquired the fiber optics specialist realm communications group based in silicon valley usa . corporate film edit r & m received a silver dolphin at the cannes corporate media & tv awards for its corporate film which takes an entertaining look at the difference between intact and corrupt network packets . citation needed the film also gives industry outsiders a clear insight into the abstract concept of network quality . citation needed references edit newsfox press distribution wi fi technology forum golden telecom external links edit r & m website 50 year anniversary animation film retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title reichle % 26 de massari & oldid 741211479 categories manufacturing companies of switzerlandtechnology companies of switzerlandwetzikonhidden categories articles needing additional references from september 2016all articles needing additional referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from december 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 26 september 2016 at 02 32 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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