Company profile

Robe is among the world’s leading moving light manufacturers, recognised for its innovation, quality engineering and dedication to the very highest production values. 

Company Employees
Square metre facility
Export countries

The company is based in the Czech Republic and all processes involved in making the luminaires is undertaken locally in a 75.000 square metre premises. Currently Robe employs over 750 skilled staff worldwide.

Robe has wholly-owned subsidiaries in six key markets – the U.S., U.K., Middle East, Singapore (Asia Pacific), France and Germany - and a highly proactive and talented regional sales management team which helps oversee and co-ordinate the worldwide distribution network covering over 100 countries.

Robe’s moving and LED lights can be found everywhere. They are working and installed on stages and in concert halls, in theatres and all types of other venues; they are lighting all genres of performance from music to TV to drama and opera; appearing on a myriad of diverse events as well as at theme park attractions and entering the specialist worlds of architectural and environmental illumination.

The company is very proud of its independence and private ownership. 

This ensures the business remains agile, efficient, decisive and focussed on producing genuinely creative tools for an imaginative and exciting industry that constantly pushes boundaries.

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Made in the EU

Robe’s products are proudly – and properly – ‘made in the European Union’, a conscious business and logistical decision taken to ensure quality, reliability and efficiency as well as to play an active, relevant and valuable role in our local economy. 

All elements of the manufacturing process – including plastic moulding, metalwork, PCB production, optical testing, etc., – are completed in house and where possible components are also sourced from within the EU. 

We maintain the highest standards of health and safety in the manufacturing process and the welfare and well-being of our staff is paramount to Robe’s core values and philosophy.

Owners

Robe is among the world’s leading moving light manufacturers, recognised for its innovation, quality engineering and dedication to the very highest production values. 

Ladislav Petrek

Ladislav Petrek

CEO

Ladislav Petrek oversees all Robe’s fiscal affairs and corporate infrastructure elements including staff welfare – everything that makes the operation smooth and efficient. He is also co-ordinating the ongoing development of Robe’s ever-expanding factory site, including managing any new construction projects and the refurbishment of existing facilities.

Josef Valchar

Josef Valchar

CEO

Josef Valchar is very much a public face of Robe lighting, and is constantly on the road, at exhibitions and visiting distributors, listening to feedback and opinions and checking out shows and events to see how the products are being utilised. This information is shared with various departments within the company, and acted on to ensure that products and services are constantly kept evolving and moving forward.

History

Career background

Career

ROBE lighting s.r.o. are looking for dynamic people who can work independently and are willing to learn new things. Our main emphasis would be reliability, politeness, loyalty, determination, team spirit and interest in personal and professional growth. If no positions are available currently, please still feel free to send us your unsolicited application to personalni@robe.cz.

Job offers in Czech Republic

For our career and job offers at our production sites and headquarters, our HR department operates its own website in Czech language.

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