Chronicle of the company

1989	Founding of Beta LAYOUT
Foundation of Beta LAYOUT as GbR. Business purpose is the creation of layouts.

1994	Founding of PCB-POOL®
Realisation of the idea of achievings drastic cost reductions for PCB prototypes by sharing setup costs.

1996	Beta LAYOUT GmbH
Change of Beta LAYOUT GbR to LAYOUT GmbH with Arne Hofmann as exclusive shareholder and managing director. The goal of the enterprise is the layout and selling of printed circuit boards as well as services for the electronics/printed circuit board industry.

1996	PRINT-POOL GmbH
Foundation of PRINT-POOL GmbH with the purpose of also applying the PCB POOL principle within the printing business.

1997	Beta LAYOUT Ltd.
Establishment of Beta LAYOUT Ltd. in Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland and later in the Shannon Free Zone, Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland. Business purpose is CAM support for Germany as well as the marketing of PCB-POOL® in Ireland and the UK.

1998	Beta BOARD GmbH
Establishment of a fast turnaround PCB manufacturing service. The two main goals of the fast turnaround service were 1. to establish access to an exclusive supplier for the time-critical PCB-POOL® panels and 2. to put into practice findings made by Beta BOARD GmbH in the area of multi panel manufacture in order to further improve working relations with our manufacturers.

1999	Partnership with Conrad Electronic Germany
In 1999 following the promotion of the PCB-POOL® Printed Circuit Board Service in the Conrad catalogue, a PCB-POOL® online order system was launched on the Conrad homepage.

2000	Beta BOARD GmbH Site II
Extension of Beta BOARD GmbH in the former premises of Elmetic Leiterplatten GmbH in Pfungstadt, Germany.

2001	Beta PCB-BROKER GmbH
Establishment of the first German B2B internet-platform for printed circuit boards: PCB-BROKER.DE.