Conrad Electronic
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| legal form | Societas Europaea |
| founding | 1923 |
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Hirschau , Germany
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| management | Managing directors: Werner Conrad (Chairman), Ralf Bühler, Ales Drabek, Jürgen Groth |
| Number of employees | 2,100 (2017) |
| sales | 1.07 billion euros (2017) |
| Branch | Retail and mail order |
| Website | conrad.de |
The Conrad Electronic SE is a German family in electronics - mail order . It was founded in Berlin in 1923 . The company's headquarters have been in Hirschau in the Upper Palatinate since 1946 . The logistics center is located in Wernberg . From there, deliveries are made to Germany and abroad.
history
The company was founded by Max Conrad in Berlin in 1923; his son Werner Conrad pushed the mail order business. In 1946 the company moved to Hirschau (Upper Palatinate). Werner Conrad's son Klaus Conrad became a partner in 1973 at the age of 37. In southern Germany, 18 more technology department stores have been built over the years. In 1976 220 people were employed. In 1979 model making items were offered for the first time. The company was one of the pioneers in private broadcasting and from 1984 operated the private broadcaster Radio C, which broadcasts from Bolzano in South Tyrol to Bavaria .
On July 1, 1990, Conrad took over Völkner Electronic GmbH and Co. KG from Braunschweig from the previous owner Kaufhof . In 2000 the shipping activities of the Völkner brand were discontinued and customers were sent a Conrad catalog. In 1991 Conrad took over Radio Rim .
In 1995 a logistics center was built in Wernberg-Köblitz in the Upper Palatinate ; The groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of the logistics center took place in April 2012. In 1997 Werner Conrad, the son of Klaus Conrad, became management spokesman.
In 2006 the company employed more than 3,000 people worldwide. In 2007, the company received the “Shipper of the Year 2007” award from the German Mail Order Association and the trade journal Der Versandhausberater . According to information from Nielsen NetRatings , the Conrad Electronic website has been one of the ten online shops with the most visitors in Germany for years .
The Nuremberg-based Re-In Retail International GmbH, which operates the online shops voelkner.de, digitalo.de and smdv.de, has also been part of the Conrad corporate family since 2008 .
On December 4, 2013, Conrad Electronic bought the insolvent online mail order company getgoods.de and closed its Frankfurt / Oder location. The getgoods.de and hoh.de brands were continued; Get-it-quick GmbH was closed at the end of 2015.
Branches
In addition to the mail order business, the company operates 20 branches in Germany , six in Austria ( Vienna-Stadlau , Vienna Meiselmarkt , Vösendorf , Graz , Linz , Salzburg ), two in Switzerland ( Lucerne-Emmenbrücke , Zurich-Dietlikon ) and one in Hungary (Budapest ). In 2017 the branch in Saarbrücken was closed, in 2018 the branches in Berlin-Steglitz, Braunschweig and Schwentinental near Kiel. In 2019 the Hamburg Altona branch was closed, the Hamburg-Wandsbek branch will remain open. The branch in Düsseldorf will be closed on February 15, 2020.
The company sends around 7.2 million deliveries (120 million items) to over 150 countries each year and has a maximum shipping capacity of 50,000 parcels per day. In 2012, 3.51 million people in Germany made purchases from Conrad Electronic in the last six months. A branch delivery service has been offered in cooperation with tiramizoo.com since 2013, which enables express delivery of the goods.
range
The range for private customers includes more than 750,000 items, including products from the fields of PC technology, telephony, hi-fi, building technology, components, model railways and model making, entertainment electronics, office technology, automotive technology, navigation, car hi-fi, security technology, installation technology, batteries , Batteries, chargers, tools, soldering technology, electronics and measurement technology. The range for business customers on the Conrad marketplace conrad.de comprised more than one million items at the end of 2017 and had grown to more than five million items at the end of 2019.
Trademarks
Conrad sells several own brands , including the microcontroller series C-Control , various laboratory devices from the Voltcraft brand (which has replaced the Noris brand in 1982 ), DJ equipment from McCrypt , acoustic instruments from McBrown , model building products from REELY , batteries and rechargeable batteries Conrad Energy , tools under Toolcraft and various entry-level products under RIM and BASETECH . The McCrypt trademark is currently being gradually replaced by the Renkforce trademark previously used by Völkner .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint. Accessed March 9, 2020 (German).
- ↑ a b Price pressure is troubling Conrad. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Klaus Conrad is 70, Oberpfalznetz from February 25, 2006, accessed April 11, 2008
- ↑ New chapter in the success story , accessed on April 24, 2012.
- ↑ One-brand or multi-shop strategy? Conrad's confusing online line-up. In: channelpartner.de. December 5, 2013, accessed April 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Matthias Hell: Conrad remains on course for growth. ChannelPartner, January 22, 2014, accessed August 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Michael Schäfer: Conrad closes getgoods locations in Frankfurt (Oder). ComputerBase, January 24, 2014, accessed August 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Conrad Electronic takes over getgood shops. MOZ, December 4, 2013, accessed on August 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Daniel Kurbjuhn: getgoods and HoH close of the year. ComputerBase, September 30, 2015, accessed August 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Welcome to the Conrad branches. Conrad, accessed August 11, 2019 .
- ↑ neuhandeln.de: "Economic Considerations": Conrad Electronic closes three branches
- ↑ Conrad Düsseldorf - Your electronics store on Oststrasse. Retrieved January 25, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Conrad self-presentation - logistics center. Archived from the original on March 27, 2012 ; accessed on January 14, 2013 .
- ^ Technical stores - number of customers. Accessed April 10, 2013.
- ↑ Key company data , accessed on March 29, 2017.
- ↑ Over a million products. Retrieved October 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Marketplace - one-stop shopping with quality guarantee. Accessed December 30, 2019 .