EMP merchandising
| EMP Merchandising Handelsgesellschaft mbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1986 |
| Seat |
Lingen , Germany
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| Number of employees | > 500 (2016) |
| sales | 200 million euros (2017) |
| Branch | Merchandising and mail order |
| Website | www.emp.de |
The EMP Merchandising Handelsgesellschaft mbH is a German Merchandising undertakings incinerating or the recorded music , merchandise, accessories , textiles and films markets. The company's headquarters are in Lingen. There are also other company offices in Sweden (Sweden Rock Shop), the United Kingdom , Italy , France , Spain and the Netherlands . The abbreviation EMP stands for Exclusive Merchandise Products .
history
EMP was founded in 1986 by Felix Lethmate. The business began in an apartment in Lingen in the Emsland and quickly developed into a company that employed more than 500 people across Europe in December 2016.
Sound carriers and merchandising articles (fan shirts, banners etc.) from metal and rock bands, music videos and recordings of live performances, films of all genres, fun slogan shirts and other clothing items and accessories are sold . A separate category for hip-hop sound carriers was set after the hip-hop mail order MZEE.com , which was temporarily a subsidiary of EMP Merchandising HGmbH, was taken over. Today the company sells its goods across Europe.
Another shop opened in Vienna on January 31, 2014 . Further shops are located in Wietmarschen (EMP Outlet Store A31), Essen , Leipzig and Nuremberg .
In July 2015, the date held by the founding company located on was American US private equity -Gesellschaft Sycamore Partners, including the owner of Belk Inc. , were sold. In September 2018, the Warner Music Group took over the company with a company valuation of 155 million euros.
EMP magazine
Since 1998 the company has been producing a magazine that is sent out to customers every quarter and is also available in magazine stores. This magazine, which is mainly used as a mail order catalog , also includes CD reviews of new releases and interviews with relevant bands. The magazine has a circulation of around 1 million copies. A separate magazine was published for MZEE until 2012.
Awards
2007: ECHO in the Retail Partner of the Year category.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint. EMP Merchandising, accessed September 15, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Jobs at EMP. EMP Merchandising, accessed December 6, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Warner Music Group buys Lingen-based company EMP. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , September 18, 2018, accessed on October 21, 2018 .
- ↑ EMP Merchandise | Fan article shop for rock & entertainment. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Sven Lampe: Warner Music Group buys EMP company from Lingen . ( noz.de [accessed on October 21, 2018]).
- ↑ An ECHO for the BRAVO. (No longer available online.) In: Bundesverband Musikindustrie . March 24, 2007, archived from the original ; accessed on September 15, 2015 .
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