Engelbert Strauss GmbH & Co. KG is a German clothing company specialized in workwear, safety footwear and personal protective equipment.

In the beginning August Strauss and his two sons, including Engelbert (*1908) traded in brooms and brushes that were manufactured in Kassel, a district of Biebergemünd.

Due to its focus on manufacturing brooms (German Besen) this district is still commonly called Besenkassel.

[2][3] In 1948 after the second world war Engelbert Strauss continued the family trading tradition and founded the company bearing his name.

In 1994 a new 40,000 sqm building with a logistics centre was built on the company grounds in Biebergemünd, around 50 km northeast of Frankfurt am Main.

After the founding of a second subsidiary in England in 2002, others followed, including in the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Denmark.

[7] In 2020, Engelbert Strauss opened the CI Factory, another logistics and dispatch centre with its own production facilities in the immediate vicinity of its headquarters.

Since 2014, the company has also repeatedly acted as sponsor of the European Women's and Men's Handball Championships[20] and the Champions Hockey League.

In the 2019/2020 DFB Cup season, the Engelbert Strauss logo was featured on the sleeves of Eintracht Frankfurt's jersey,[21] and since the summer of 2021 there has been a cooperation with FC Bayern Munich.

Together with GIZ, Strauss has been establishing a chair for sustainability and textile innovation at the Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST)[34] in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka since February 2020.

[35] The federal government's initiative aims to make social and ecological improvements in global textile production.