Historical key dates
2014 - Keller opens its 5th Keller Relocation branch in Zug, Switzerland.
2012 - Through a formed partnership with Vaimat Artcare Keller Swiss Group enters the segment of art transport
2011 - The company is restructured to adjust to market requirements. Support services are all based in Basel headoffice and all customer related service teams move to Spreitenbach into one central location
2008 - Lorenz Amiet appointed CEO of Keller Swiss Group. On July 1, Andreas Amiet-Keller, Chairman of the Board of the companies of Keller Swiss Group, hands over operational responsibility for the group to his son Lorenz Amiet.
2007 - Keller Swiss Group presents itself under the same name throughout Switzerland
2004 - Launch of Keller Relocation Ltd.
2003 - FAIM for Keller Bern
2001 - FAIM for Hofmann Zurich and Keller
Geneva (formerly Inter-Transports)
1998 - Keller Basel acquires the moving companies Keller Bern, Inter-Transport Geneva and Hofmann Zurich (including the removal department ex Kuoni Transport Ltd.). Together they form the Keller Swiss Group, the number 1 removal Group in Switzerland.
1998 - Achievement of FAIM (FIDI Accredited International Mover) quality certification through FIDI (in cooperation with Ernst & Young Consulting), as the seventh moving company worldwide.
1994 - KELLER BASEL becomes a co-owner of OMNI, the consortium of leading independent removal companies. www.omnimoving.com/
1991 - Dr. Andreas Amiet-Keller takes over
management of the family enterprise as representative of the fourth generation.
1965 - Transfer of the taxi business to the Taxi-Zentrale where Keller Basel is a 50 % shareholder.
1937 - The era of horse-drawn vehicles comes to an end and steam powered lorries are introduced.
1911 - The company takes the form of a Limited Company.
1903 - The first motorized taxi-cab is put into service.
1855 - Horse-drawn cabs, Rudolf Keller-Weber establishes a company in Basel that carries out all kind of transports by horse-drawn cabs
The first business card 1855
A DC-4 is getting loaded by Hoffman-Removals. Keller Swiss Group was established after the take over of the Zurich removal enterprise W. H. Hofmann & Co. Ltd by Keller Ltd 1998.