This year Bosch UK is celebrating a significant milestone. The company reached its 125th anniversary in March. This is something that everyone at Bosch UK is proud of, not least because we're the first country outside of Bosch's homeland of Germany to reach this mark. In recent months I've found myself thinking about how we've been able to survive and thrive for so long. What gives a business the ability to keep progressing for more than a century? Unsurprisingly, there isn't one answer. You have to have the right products - products which solve the user's pain point - if you want to grow. Robert Bosch came to London in 1898 and he sold his magneto ignition device to the early car manufacturers. These companies needed a reliable magneto that would allow their customers to use their cars whenever they needed it. At the time, that level of reliability hadn't been guaranteed, but Robert Bosch went some way to removing this obstacle to vehicle performance.
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