DieSpeker was founded in 1881 in Hamburg by Luigi Oderico, who set up a Branch in London and traded as DieSpeker Ltd. It was one of the first companies to introduce terrazzo and mosaic to the UK and employed 250 Italian craftsmen at the time. Today DieSpeker has asmaller and select team of craftsmen/tradesmen. It has, in line with commercial needs and a planned development, used modern Italian machinery and extended into cutting, processing and the installation of marble, granite, slate, limestone and other associated products.