Category: Case Studies

Favi is a remarkable company: While most examples of companies with a human-first culture seem to be build from the ground up that way, are relatively recent, and come from a internet technology background, Favi was an old-school family owned brass foundry, founded in 1953, when Jean-Francois Zobrist took over as CEO in 1983. The way he became CEO was remarkable as well: the owner took Zobrist on a helicopter tour, landed near the plant, gathered the employees, and told them Zobrist was their new CEO, not in the last place to the surprise of Zobrist himself.