DBH Deutsche Buch Handels GmbH & Co. KG

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DBH Deutsche Buch Handels GmbH & Co. KG

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founding 2006
Seat Munich , Germany
Branch Book trade

The German Book Trade GmbH & Co. KG ( DBH ), headquartered in Munich, is an amalgamation of Hugendubel, Jokers, Weiland, Wohlthat'sche and DBH department store. Buch Habel was completely taken over in 2008 and merged with Hugendubel from January 2011 . With a total of 496 branches, DBH is well ahead of Thalia Holding GmbH and is the largest German book retail chain .

history

It was founded in 2006 as a financial holding company and is 50% owned by the Hugendubel family and 50% by the Weltbild publishing group from whose previous long-term cooperation this " joint venture " emerged (until 2014, 14 dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany as well as the Soldier Chaplaincy Berlin). In the 2011 financial year, DBH generated sales of 731 million euros .

DBH announced sales of around EUR 675 million for its first financial year 2006. It manages the 465 bookstore branches of the two owner companies with a total of around 3,500 employees (as of October 2007). In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, these include the book stores Hugendubel (34 branches), Weiland (33), Buch Habel (17, now partly sold, partly renamed Hugendubel ), Schmorl and von Seefeld in Hanover ( 2) and the book discounter Wohlthat'sche Buchhandlung (around 50), Weltbild / Weltbild Plus / Weltbild Best (around 260), Jokers Restseller (18) and the full-range bookstores Buchhandlung Weltbild! (12) and in Austria the 35 branches of A&M and AM! .

From July 2008 DBH will manage 44 of the 89 book departments of the Karstadt department store group . The remaining departments will be closed and employees will be employed in other areas. The Thalia chain had previously tried to establish a partnership with Karstadt . The takeover of 44 book departments was approved by the Federal Cartel Office in April 2008 ; eight other book departments (in Kiel , Leipzig , Wiesbaden , Frankfurt am Main and Munich ) could not be taken over for the time being due to antitrust concerns.

In order to save personnel costs, massive restructuring measures began throughout the group in 2009. At the beginning of the year, job cuts in the DBH publishing group Weltbild were started.

As of May 2009, Weltbild plus was the first subsidiary to be affected. Since no works councils were formed in this company , the planned 322 job cuts plus hourly reductions could be implemented quickly and without hindrance.

On June 30, 2009, the administration of Buch Habel in Darmstadt and the Wohlthat'schen Buchhandlung in Berlin were closed and the tasks were concentrated in the DBH headquarters. This was followed by the great waves of layoffs at Buch Habel, Hugendubel and Wohlthat. At Wohlthat, the measure was implemented nationwide, unhindered and in camera. In the Wohlthat branches in Berlin / Potsdam it was delayed by the action of the local works council , as with Buch Habel and Hugendubel, and made public with the support of the ver.di union . At the beginning of November 2009 the labor dispute began in the Wohlthat'sche bookstore. In the course of 2010, industrial action came to a standstill due to a lack of sufficient support in the workforce, which was largely made up by newly hired part-time workers, despite continuing branch closings in Berlin and Potsdam.

Also at the end of 2009, the group works councils and works councils established a group works council with which they want to expand co-determination in the subsidiaries. To this end, works council elections are initiated in companies without a works council without a general works council. In addition to this task, the local committees should receive an efficient information system for the processes in the group, which, beyond the limits of local co-determination and co-determination in the subsidiaries, can report early on on the planning of the group management. After initial difficulties in 2010, the level of commitment in this body decreased considerably.

The holding company uses a common merchandise management system , but has not yet operated a central purchasing department . In contrast to the competing Thalia chain, the individual branches have so far kept their names and, according to the company's management, should also retain their independent profile.

Like the other large book retail chains (Thalia and Mayersche ), DBH uses the logistics and central warehouse capacities of the book wholesaler Libri .

The Weltbild branch business was separated from the sales network in 2014 and transferred to Weltbild.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Habel disappears. Retrieved January 3, 2011 .
  2. ↑ http://www.boersenblatt.net/143822/
  3. ↑ http://www.buchmarkt.de/downloads/BM_EXTRA.pdf
  4. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Insolvent publishing group: Investor Droege takes over Weltbild step by step - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Economy. Retrieved April 30, 2017 .
  5. ↑ http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/it-medien/bistuemer-suchen-kaeufer-fuer-weltbild;2008502
  6. ↑ http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/Home/Lokales/Augsburg-Stadt/Lokalnews/Artikel,-Kirche-behaelt-Weltbild-_arid,1575062_regid,2_puid,2_pageid,4490.html
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  8. ↑ http://www.boersenblatt.net/143822/
  9. ↑ http://redax.weltbild.com/frontend/pressemitteilung.php?id=283 ( Memento from July 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ http://www.weltbild.com/download/1-151/ ( Memento from March 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 4, 2007, p. 27
  12. ↑ http://www.boersenblatt.net/168370/
  13. ↑ http://www.prcenter.de/DBH-Karstadt-Gruenes-Licht-vom-Kartellamt-Hugendubel-und-Weltbild-starten-zum-1-Juli-2008-mit-44-Buchshops-im-Karstadt-Warenhaus .16079.html
  14. ↑ http://www.boersenblatt.net/184500/
  15. ↑ http://www.boersenblatt.net/325750/
  16. ↑ Wholesalers in crisis No simple trade
  17. ↑ http://www.boersenblatt.net/307019/
  18. ↑ http://www.boersenblatt.net/306539/
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  22. ↑ http://www.boersenblatt.net/325398/
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  25. ↑ http://www.boersenblatt.net/328742/
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  27. ↑ http://www.boersenblatt.net/341241/
  28. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/Wohlthat-sche-Buchhandlung-Personalabbau;art271,2917403
  29. ↑ http://www.buchreport.de/nachrichten/handel/handel_nachricht/daten/2009/12/21/aufstand-am-alex.htm
  30. ↑ Peter Kirnich: Räumsklave in blessing. In: Berliner Zeitung . February 13, 2010, accessed June 16, 2015 .
  31. ↑ https://bayern.verdi.de/aktuelles/konzernbetriebsrat-dbh ( Memento from December 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  32. ↑ http://www.buchreport.de/nachrichten/handel/handel_nachricht/daten/2010/03/24/fruehwarnsystem-fuer-die-belegschaft.htm
  33. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buchreport.de
  34. ↑ http://www.boersenblatt.net/161044/

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