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BALVE SAFES (own brand) and her time as International Director of STOCKINGER SAFES

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PRODUCT & EXCLUSIVITY

Her BALVE High Tech Safes, GERMANY, was more than a safe place to keep Valuables. They were a real piece of art and designed to be ‘exhibited’. As such this represents a revolutionary concept and a true challenge to security -mastered by her product. Known as the most exclusive safes in the world, BALVE High Tech Safes, GERMANY comes in a range of different shapes, configurations, colors, and most luxurious materials such as 24 carat-gold, sterling silver, platinum, precious stones, and exotic leathers for the interior. Some of them are designed and decorated by world-famous artists.

Made in Germany, Madame Sabine Balve gorgeous BALVE Safes were not made to be hidden!

HER CLIENTELE  – Top 100 of the World

As owner and CEO of BALVE – High Tech Safe Germany with its impressive client list (it boasts some of the wealthiest people on the planet), Balve is certainly privy to some highly sensitive information and knows how to keep a secret. With more than two decades of experience in the safe business in her native Germany and as the former international director of STOCKINGER Safes Germany, she transformed successfully first the brand Stockinger from a national brand in Germany to an international brand. This by changing their complete setup and marketing and business strategies with a focus on Europe and the Americas. With her own company and brand BALVE – High Tech Safe with head offices in Munich, Germany, Madame Sabine Balve expanded with sales and trading offices in Dubai, UAE for the Middle East market and stopped her successful work in 2010 during the global property crisis as clients failed to pay their duties and international suppliers couldn’t deliver materials as some of them went bankrupt thru the international financial tumult.

Major Achievements, Global Expansions 

One of Madame Sabine Balve’s major achievements as international director of  STOCKINGER Safe company (Germany) and as the owner of BALVE High Tech Safe has been the full creation of a 400 square meter (4.305 square foot) showroom at Maximilian Street, the most prestigious shopping street of Munich, Germany.

All of this is accompanied by marketing analysis of new markets in Europa and America and the Middle East. Madame Sabine Balve successfully planned, implemented. organized and handled the whole new set-up of the organization and branding, which included exhibitions for newly developed safe models to an exclusive clientele of wealth.

This included forming a high professional office team, further development, and design of new innovative models of safes, the full set-up of all marketing materials, incl. presentative catalogs etc.

Her Successful Networking Worldwide:

She establishing excellent relations to a number of dealers and owners of other luxurious brands of world-known luxury products and retailers such as LAURENCE GRAFF, High jewelry, the most exclusives diamond jewelry in the world and others such as Cartier, etc. DAMAS Group, (the number one retailer in the world for gold jewelry), exclusive retailers such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Luxurious yachts, Prestige cars dealer Bugatti and others, numerous antique and art, worldwide (including the number one Didier Aaron, most important art and antique dealer in the world and french bank owner). Auction houses in London, Paris, Brussels such as Sotheby’s and Christie’s, etc. Aiming to introduce top- brands and their luxurious products to ‘joint venture partners ‘ at galas, openings or receptions to compatible clients: The Top 100 wealthy of the world and other influentials, royals, presidents and others industrial leaders, etc.

YEAR EXHIBITION AT SAKS FIFTH AVENUE

Madame Sabine Balve (at that time with blond hair)

Madame Sabine Balve negotiated with Mister Tawhid Abdulla, the biggest wholesaler in the world for gold/jewelry, owner of DAMAS President of Gold Counsel the new sales location at SAKS Fifth Avenue. Her luxurious safes were directly presented in their showrooms without any listings which takes usually years to enter there.

What is Saks Fifth Avenue known for?

One of the most famous luxury retailers in the world, Saks Fifth Avenue has long been the destination for fashion-conscious men and women. The flagship store at 611 Fifth Avenue at 50th Street opened in 1924 and has served the stylish for over three-quarters of a century.

International Exhibitions in Europa & America and other Highlights

Madame Sabine got the exclusive listing and participated At TEFAF, MAASTRICHT, In The Netherlands, The Number One Art & Antique Exhibition Of The World!

ABOUT TEFAF:

The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) is widely regarded as the world’s pre-eminent organization for fine art, antiques, and design. The European Fine Art Fair (abbreviated: TEFAF) is an annual art, antiques, and design fair, organized by The European Fine Art Foundation in the MECC in Maastricht, Netherlands. It was first held in 1988. The 10-day fair attracts about 75,000 visitors and is considered one of the world’s leading art fairs. Presenting 260 of the world’s leading galleries from 20 countries, TEFAF Maastricht showcases some of the best works of art currently on the market for 10 days each year. In addition to the traditional areas of Old Master Paintings and antique Works of Art, visitors can see and buy a wide variety of Classical Modern and Contemporary Art, as well as Jewellery, 20th Century Design, and Works on Paper. There were 266 dealers from twenty countries at the fair’s 2015 edition, showing museum-quality pieces ranging from classical antiquity to the 21st century, valued at 4 billion euros.

Furthermore 25 exhibitions in Europe and America (exclusive car, yacht, art and antiques, and jewelry exhibitions, etc. with outreach to top clienteles) HIGH-level Social Networking Events and Galas such as Red Cross Ball, Monte Carlo, Salzburger Festspiele, and Richard Wagner Festspiele in Bayreuth, Vienna Opera Ball, etc.

All of these new activities of Madame Sabine Balve had lead to an increase in sales of more the 2,5 times the previous Stockinger turnover in worldwide sales in only 2 years.

Highlights of the Global Expansion into the Middle East Market

11 Exhibitions, including an exclusive Show at the world-famous Burj Al Arab, Hotel to 250 Princesses from the Middle East.

Pics Madame Sabine Balve (blond) with the Son of Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum – the leader of Dubai and the president family of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates

After the sudden death of the owner of Stockinger in 2000, unsolved issues and inheritance disputes were effecting drastically the daily business of Stockinger. It made it impossible to grow the company further, As a result, Sabine Balve decided to go ahead with her own brand, BALVE High -Tech Safes, (Germany) which were more specialized in the high end than the previous Stockinger Safes, Sabine strictly focused on tailor-made safes for customers all over the world. The (exclusive) BALVE High Tech Safes were soon acclaimed to be the Rolls Royce in Safes worldwide. So it was only natural – given the high quality of her clientele – that at the end of 2005 Balve set up a trading office in Dubai, to market the Balve Safes as well in the Middle East. Her company soon penetrated the Middle East Market with the help of a dozen exhibitions (exhibiting always in a prime location at the exhibition) Including the INDEX exhibition (the biggest interior exhibition in the middle east) as – The highlight of the year at the INDEX – Exhibition of 2006.

© BALVE SAFE GERMANY, CEO MADAME SABINE BALVE

"Madame Sabine Balve is having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty. She is relating to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sensation as opposed to pure intellectuality."

The customized BALVE – Safes are handcrafted masterpieces that are usually displayed prominently in plush offices, luxurious homes, palaces, yacht, and even Lear Jets. They are extremely safe and true works of art. The fireproof safes take between three months to a year to manufacture, depending on clients specifications and include the use of rare materials, including camel and cow hair, the finest calf and ostrich leather, as well crocodile, alligator, mink, shark, stingray, snake, and python skin. In all colors tinted to line the interior and chrome, sterling silver, platinum and 24-carat gold for the drawers systems and the exterior of the safe.

“The highest expectations need the highest competence,” says Balve, “Our safes are distinctive and classic and as exclusive as Bentleys or Maybachs."

Customize orders of all safes, exclusively manufactured in Germany, come with the guarantee of superb quality, the highest bank safety class and the ultimate in aesthetic appeal.”

Further outstanding selling points of the unique, lavish BALVE Safes: “My clients know they can trust in me. They speak only with me. I am very discreet with them and respect their confidentiality which they appreciate. Apart from their contact details, I keep nothing in writing about them to ensure the total protection of their privacy. The premise of a longtime relationship is trust. Trust cannot be forced. It can only grow by convincing each one another of extraordinary qualities and in the long run: Reliability! Therefore most of my clients become deep-rooted friends of mine. Something that motivates me to no end and is a role that I truly cherish.

Investing love and passion to create such an adequate setting for unique valuables, the manufacturing process of a BALVE High Tech Safe is accompanied by a long line of experts who provide their skilled craftsmanship and superb knowledge to enable a handcrafted masterpiece that reaches its evolutionary perfection on completion. Balve personally delivers each safe, a true masterpiece of art – traveling usually on the same flight with them from their place of to their destination This could be anywhere in this world. One was hand-delivered all the way to the Datcha of a Russian oligarch or to such faraway places such as the Bahamas.