Steiff (Margarete Steiff GmbH)
Company-provided description, not an official-source fact. Certifications, capacities, years and market positions stated in it are the company's own claims until a record below confirms them.
Steiff invented the teddy bear and remains the world's most iconic soft toy manufacturer, hand-cr…
No description from the company. The catalog line you may see elsewhere is generated by us from the category and location, not a statement by the company.
- Type
- Not established by any record (our catalog import lists it as manufacturer; that is not evidence of the role)
- Role
- Role not established by any record
- Location
- Giengen an der Brenz, Germany
- Founded
- 1880 (from our catalogue record; not confirmed by the company or by a state register)
- Website
- steiff.com
- Categories
- Toys & Games, Gifts & Novelty
- Markets
- United States, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. No official record is on file. 4 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. Nothing here confirms manufacturing, ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.
Facts on file, each with its evidence type
- Website domain registered (record type: domain-registered) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows how long this web address has been registered. That is the age of the domain, not of the company: a domain can change owners. checked 2026-08-02. Domain registry record
- First recorded on the web archive (record type: web-presence-since) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] The company website was already online in 1998. Shows a web archive saw a page at this address on that date. It does not show who ran the site then. checked 2026-08-04. Internet Archive (Wayback)
- No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. Screened by name only: no legal entity is established for this record, so this is not a clearance. checked 2026-08-16. OpenSanctions
- No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. Screened by name only: no legal entity is established for this record, so this is not a clearance. checked 2026-08-16. OpenSanctions
Profiles
Claimed certifications, not confirmed by us
- ISO 9001, Quality Management IAF CertSearch
- CE Marking EU NANDO (notified bodies)
Import rules for these goods
- Toys need CE marking under the EU Toy Safety rules; children's products for the US need a CPSC Children's Product Certificate backed by accredited third-party testing. US CPSC / EU CE
Goods family established: Toys & Games (the company's own text). The exact product, operation and trade route needed to determine a product-specific requirement are not established here. Product-specific import rules not established for the catalog category Gifts & Novelty: no record or company text names goods of this kind. A catalog category alone is our classification, not proof of what the company makes or sells.
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