Alfred Sternjakob
| Alfred Sternjakob | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1934 |
| Seat | Frankenthal (Palatinate) , Germany |
| management | Fritz Steinmann, Oliver Steinmann, Thomas Prechtel |
| Number of employees | 42 ( 2017 ) |
| sales | EUR 5.7 million ( 2015/16 ) |
| Branch | Leather goods industry |
| Website | www.sternjakob.de |
The Alfred Sternjakob GmbH & Co. KG was a company based in Frankenthal (Palatinate) . It was one of the largest satchel manufacturers in the world and market leader in Germany and was taken over in 1990 by Fritz Steinmann GmbH & Co. KG in Nuremberg .
Products and brands
In addition to school supplies, Alfred Sternjakob made luggage, bags, purses, pencil cases and rucksacks. In addition, licenses are granted to partner companies that produce, among other things, play and study books, chairs, toys, bicycle helmets, children's clothing, shoes, terry towels, crockery and watches.
Scout , 4You, Quer and Hardware are brand names under which the products are sold. In 2006, the Scout and 4You brands generated 92 percent of sales.
history
The company was founded on October 1st, 1934 by Alfred Sternjakob in Pirmasens , at that time a center of the leather industry , and initially produced work gloves and leather bags. After a short time it was moved to Frankenthal. Gustav Schickedanz from the Quelle mail order company was one of the first customers .
In 1975, Scout, the first lightweight school satchel, was developed and launched on the market at a unit price of 49 D-Marks. The new textile satchels were also copied by other manufacturers and quickly replaced the leather copies that had been common up until then. The German Historical Museum in Berlin added a Scout satchel from the 1995 collection to its Everyday Culture department.
In 1990 Alfred Sternjakob's son sold the company to Fritz Steinmann in Nuremberg. As a result, the 4You brand was established, which, in contrast to the Scouts, which are mainly used by children, offers satchels, rucksacks and bags for young people. More than ten million light school satchels had been produced by 2006. In the same year, the market share in Germany was 40 percent.
On October 1, 2017, the location of the subsidiary Alfred Sternjakob GmbH & Co. KG in Frankenthal will be closed and all activities will be pooled in Nuremberg. Since then, the brands Scout , 4YOU, DerDieDas, OXMOX and iKON have been managed by Georg A. Steinmann GmbH & Co. KG from Nuremberg.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Who to whom - Georg A. Steinmann GmbH & Co. KG
- ↑ Mannheimer Morgen : Sternjakob GmbH & Co. KG. May 23, 2007
- ↑ Chronicle of Star Jacob
- ↑ Mannheimer Morgen: Sternjakob - from school to the wedding altar . June 15, 2004
- ↑ Mannheimer Morgen: With colorful satchels on the road to success for over 30 years . May 23, 2007