Warton

History

2023: Warton bought GSTZ for hundreds of millions

The Russian manufacturer of lighting equipment, the Varton group, bought the Gagarin Lighting Engineering Plant (GSTZ), which specializes in the development and production of explosion-proof lighting equipment and lighting equipment for transport infrastructure. Varton also acquired the co-owner of GSTZ - Industry LLC. The deal became known on October 19, 2023. Read more here.

2021

Acquisition of a stake in CloudBear

The Warton Group, a shareholder of the company Baikal Electronics and, Astra Linux GC acquired a stake in the company, Cloudbear Russian the developer processor of IP cores based on RISC-V. This was reported on December 10, 2021 TAdviser to Baikal Electronics Financial. details of the deal were not disclosed. More. here

Purchase of the manufacturer of processors "Baikal Electronics"

On June 21, 2021, it became known about the sale of Baikal Electronics to the Varton group. The participants in the transaction did not disclose its parameters, including financial and ownership structures. Read more here.

2020

As of June 2020, the Varton structure includes a laboratory and a research and production center with an area of ​ ​ 20 thousand meters of ² in Bogoroditsk, Tula Region. The company employs 600 people, more than half of them in production.

The plant in Bogoroditsk independently carries out a full cycle of work on the creation and manufacture of lamps for professional lighting of streets, industrial buildings and warehouses, administrative buildings, shopping and entertainment complexes, schools and educational institutions.

The Varton Design Bureau allows you to design and produce lamps both for mass production and for individual order. All the company's products meet the high requirements of European legislation and undergo mandatory and voluntary certification in Russia.

The products are distributed through a dealer network, delivered to Russia, the CIS countries, some countries of Europe and Africa.

Varton is included in the list of organizations of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation that have a significant impact on industries industries trade and Russia.

2014

As of January 2014, the VARTON group of companies is:

• two lighting brands - gauss (household lighting) and VARTON (industrial lighting);
• a product range of more than 900 SKUs;
• central office (city) Moscow , distribution center (Moscow region), research and production center "Varton" (city of Bogoroditsk), VARTON EUROPE S.R.L. (Markon,), Italy GAUSS INTERNATIONAL GROUP LTD (), Hong Kong
• representatives in all regions of Russia, as well as in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and the Baltic states.
• more than 500 employees;
• more than 5,000 customers throughout Russia, near and far abroad.

The company's production facilities are located in Russia and China. Thanks to modern equipment and a high-quality element base, the company provides the best quality of products.

The own production of Varton Group of Companies, located in Bogoroditsk, Tula Region, carries out a full cycle of work on the creation and manufacture of lamps for professional lighting.

The Varton Design Bureau allows you to design and produce lamps not only for mass production, but also for individual order.

The brand name gauss at this time is more than 500 names of modern light sources and lamps. Through the efforts of the company's specialists in the field of lighting engineering, optics, technical design, design and engineering, physics of LEDs, consumers can access a variety of LED and compact fluorescent lamps gauss: decorative, soffit and general-purpose lamps, LED tapes, components and various accessories - table lamps, tourist and pocket lights and much more.

Gauss lamps give a soft non-reflective light, have all the technical characteristics of the European level.

All finished products of the gauss brand undergo quality control in independent laboratories in Europe, China and Russia.

Gauss products can be purchased in all regions of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

VARTON Group of Companies occupies a leading position in the Russian lighting equipment market.

2012: Acquisition of a production site in the Tula region

In 2012, Varton acquired a production site in the city of Bogoroditsk, Tula Region, opened its own production and entered the market of industrial LED lamps under the Varton brand name.