FiveCo establishes its brand in the Swiss innovative engineering landscape
After twelve years in business, the Vaud-based company FiveCo confirms its trajectory: having moved into new and more spacious premises, taken on new recruits, and launched a new website, it aims to contribute to "Swiss made" innovation by asserting "by FiveCo" as a unique and recognised mark of expertise.
New premises, new horizons
"Creativity is contagious — pass it on", "To one who sees far, nothing is impossible", "Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail." These quotations — from Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, and Leonardo da Vinci respectively — can be read on the large bay windows of FiveCo's new premises, now located in Mont-sur-Lausanne. As Antoine Lorotte, president and founder, states: "This move is a sign of maturity for our company: after twelve years in existence, we needed to find a space large enough to welcome all the new members of the team." Indeed, in order to meet growing demand, FiveCo has had to recruit — and relocate. The team evolves with demand while remaining human-sized, and when it needs to work with partners (designers, craftspeople…), it prioritises local companies. "While many who achieve success choose to offshore their production, our ambition is to remain a Swiss company firmly rooted in the Vaud region, where we want to build our reputation," adds Antoine Lorotte.
by FiveCo, an exclusive signature
Switzerland is fertile ground for innovation: after Japan, we are the country that files the highest number of patent applications per million inhabitants (OECD ranking 2012). "Industrial innovation is a major asset here," comments Antoine Lorotte — and FiveCo intends to continue making its contribution. "If we sign ourselves 'innovative engineering', it is to remind people that engineers are, by nature, great creatives." Since its founding, FiveCo has placed its creativity at the service of industry. It handles the innovative projects of major groups and accompanies them through to the prototype development phase. Alongside its outsourcing activity, FiveCo is also developing its own brands. The Mémoire du Vin wine cellar manager continues to captivate collectors, and every new secret furniture piece from the Art of Secret collection is eagerly awaited by its community of initiates. In order to materialise the link between all its innovations, the "By FiveCo" signature will henceforth be affixed to the company's brands. "For our clients, this is a guarantee of unique expertise and a demonstration that our capacity for innovation applies equally to the concepts we develop for our industrial clients and to the brands we design ourselves."
