Always innovate, always have one step ahead.
Founded in 2009, the Ben Touch Group is the parent company of Technitoit, the French leader in home improvement, and Pr. Phobe, a company specializing in the research and commercialization of innovative and environmentally friendly products that aims to protect different type of surfaces for professionals and individuals.
With its strong and solid structures, Ben Touch is asserting itself as an ambitious player open to all proposals for development and growth. Ben Touch is constantly focusing on innovation and ecology, since its creation, in all sectors of activity.
History
Creation of Technitoit
Creation of Technitoit La maison autonettoyante in Angers (49) with 7 employees
Creation of a second Technitoit agency in Nantes
• Technitoit invests in its own research and development laboratory
• Technitoit designs and develops its own TechnitoitColor waterproofing solution for roofs and facades in its R & D laboratory, thus becoming the first manufacturer-applicator in France
Technitoit opens its 10th agency in Saint-Nazaire (44)
Technitoit doubles its turnover every year since its creation to reach € 17.3 million
Creation of Ben Touch Group
The Ben Touch Group is created to support the exponential development of Technitoit
Technitoit reaches 500 employees
Creation of Pr. Phobe
The Ben Touch Group creates Pr. Phobe, a new R & D laboratory. Objectives: creating a range of building products and a range of innovative protection products.
• Technitoit has surpassed 200,000 customers in France since its inception and achieved a turnover of € 78 million
• Technitoit launches its first franchise agency, marking a new turning point in the development of the company
• Ben Touch Group enters in the capital of Group Label à hauteur de 30% et lance une stratégie digitale pour toutes ses filiales.
• Launch of the brand Mister Menuiserie in November 2015 and opening of the 1st Mister Menuiserie store in December in Mérignac
• After more than 5 years of research, Ben Touch Group, through its R & D laboratory Pr. Phobe, launches in April the revolutionary waterproof Pr. Phobe Textiles and Leather at the Paris Fair
• Technitoit opens its 3rd and 4th franchises in Dijon and Metz, bringing the total number of its agencies to 46
• Launch of Technitoit La Maison Autonome in March
• Pr. Phobe launches in October its range of glazing protection products for buildings: Smart Windows and Smart Windows Anti-Graffiti.
• Mister Menuiserie opens more than 50 stores in France, with the goal of doubling the number of stores in 2019.
• Pr. Phobe laboratory researchers discover and develop innovative new surface protection products, such as Pr. Phobe Anti-Graffiti (stone, plaster, concrete). Customers from all over the world (Europe, Middle East, Asia) are interested on those innovations.
• Technitoit continues its franchise development. The company now has 16 franchised branches throughout France.
• New innovative and environmentally friendly products currently will be marketed by the Pr. Phobe research laboratory.
150 Technitoit agencies in France
Awards
2011
Price of the performance, growth category West region, price given by Les Echos and the Corporate Card Air-France-American Express.
2012
Victory of the self-taught Western region, hopeful price to national victories. Prizes awarded by the Harvard Business School Club of France and the Mazars law firms.
