History

2016 - 2023

The webshop is launched, solar panels are put in place and the 4th generation takes over

2010 - 2016

Sneeboer becomes "Royal Court Supplier" during our 100 year anniversary and the workshop is expanded again

1997 - 2009

Production is scaled up and Sneeboer tools are found on more and more European garden shows

1992 - 1996

The purchase of the Van Driel brand pushes sales and therefore a new workshop has to be built to be able to produce the tools.

1985 - 1991

A new direction is chosen when Jaap Sneeboer and Wilma Peelen take over the company

1975 - 1984

The third generation takes over and the company gets its first big order from a foreign country

1969 - 1975

The global oil crisis leads to many uncertainties, but the company manages to grow anyway

1969

Arie Sneeboer passes away on the 15th of September 1969 when he was 83 years old

1956 - 1969

Three of Arie's sons take over the company

1951 - 1956

Production and sale of stainless steel garden tools

1950

First order of stainless steel plate and welding electrodes

1920 - 1949

Interwar period

1914 - 1919

Arie serves as a Gunner in the Dutch Army in the First World War

1913

On the 30th of January 1913 Sneeboer is established by Arie Sneeboer

1886 - 1912

Founder Arie Sneeboer is born on the 25th of January 1886