A family-run German business unwittingly became wrapped up in the crown jewel heist at the Louvre museum in Paris and is turning the use of one of its furniture lifts into a publicity coup.

“When you need to move fast” is the new tongue-in-cheek advertising tagline for the company Böcker, which is based in the town of Werne near Dortmund, in a campaign on Facebook and Instagram mounted within a day of the brazen thefts.

The posts feature a picture of the now world-famous Agilo furniture elevator that the thieves used to gain entry to the museum through a window, grab an estimated €88m (£76m) worth of Napoleonic jewellery and in less than 10 minutes escape with the loot on motorbikes. {read}