Tescoma products

The Tescoma company was founded in 1992 in Zlín by Petr Chmela and Jiří Vaculík, initially they were engaged in the sale of water savers. Since 1994, the company started with the production of kitchen utensils, which in the following years became its dominant product. The company regularly participated in world fairs and in 1996 opened its first foreign branch in Italy. When grocery and merchandise retailer Tesco entered the Czech market in 1996, it demanded that the company be rebranded due to the similarity of their names. The dispute eventually resulted in cooperation and Tescoma even sold its products at Tesco shopping malls.

Several Tescoma products have a worldwide patent and many have won design awards such as the Red Dot Design Award, the Good Design Award, and the German Design Award. Currently (2017), Tescoma operates in 130 countries around the world and has nine branches abroad (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Slovakia, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany and China). In Italy, it is one of the three most famous brands in the industry. Tescoma co-founder Petr Chmela received the Czech Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2017, presenting three hundred products each year.