Ernsting's family

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Ernsting's family GmbH & Co. KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1968
Seat Coesfeld-Lette , Germany
management Timm Homann ( CEO of EHG Service GmbH , the holding company of the Ernsting's family group)
Number of employees around 12,000 employees
sales 1.15 billion euros
Branch Textile
Website www.ernstings-family.de

Ernsting's family headquarters in Coesfeld-Lette (Architect: David Chipperfield )
Ernsting's family in Lübben , one of the typical Ernsting's family branches.

The Ernsting's family GmbH & Co. KG is a work in family-owned German textile retail company with headquarters in Coesfeld-Lette (Westphalia). The company offers clothing with a focus on women's and children's fashion, as well as underwear, home textiles, decorative items and toys.

The Ernsting's family group of companies has around 1,865 stationary branches in Germany and Austria and is active in other sales channels with an online shop and a mobile shopping app . Ernsting's family is one of the twelve largest clothing retailers in Germany.

history

Kurt Ernsting laid the foundation stone for the company in 1967 with the opening of the first “minipreis” self-service shop in the laundry room of the textile shop that his parents ran in their home in Coesfeld-Lette. A year later he founded the "Minipreis Ernsting Handels-GmbH" and began to continuously build up a chain of branches. In 1971 the first administration building and a warehouse were built in Coesfeld-Lette to supply what are now 40 Minipreis branches. In 1972 the company was renamed “miniladen” and in 1985 “Ernsting's miniladen”. The textile supplier was named Ernsting's family in 1990.

From 1983 to 1985 the company engaged the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava to build a new distribution center in Coesfeld-Lette; The project was one of the first orders from the future star architect. In order to be able to supply the new branches in the eastern German states more quickly, a distribution center opened in Klieken near Dessau in 1993 . In 1999 a regional center was established in Schwarzenbek near Hamburg as a truck transshipment point.

In 2001, a new service center designed by the English architect David Chipperfield was completed in Coesfeld-Lette, and since then the company headquarters with administration and development department has been located here. In 2003 the Ernsting's family online shop went online. As part of a renewal of the brand identity, the word and image trademark "Ernsting's family - Recommended by happy families" was registered in 2009; In the same year the company introduced a revised corporate design for the website and branches of Ernsting's family. In 2010 the 1,500th Ernsting's family branch opened in Karlsruhe and a little later in Vienna the first store in Austria.

The company founder Kurt Ernsting died on December 7th, 2011 at the age of 82. Ernsting had withdrawn from operational business in 2006.

In 2012, a new high-bay pallet warehouse with a facade designed by the glass artist Nabo Gaß went into operation on the premises of the company headquarters in Coesfeld-Lette . Since 2013, the Ernsting's family web shop has also been available via the mobile shop.

Business activity

Ernsting's family is active in the textile retail trade in Germany and Austria. The company generates most of its sales with children's and women's clothing. The range also includes men's clothing, home textiles, accessories, decorative items and toys.

About half of the company's branches are individual stores in metropolitan, suburban and rural locations. Shops and sales areas are also maintained in local supply centers, specialist market centers , shopping centers and hypermarkets .

In addition to the stationary trade, Ernsting's family operates an online shop and offers a mobile app with a variant of the online shop optimized for the displays of smartphones and tablets. Online and offline sales channels through the Click and Collect associated option.

Locations

Currently (2019) Ernstings family GmbH & Co. KG and its sister company Ernsting's family Austria GmbH operate around 1865 branch stores, of which around 90 are in Austria.

In addition to the administration and development department, the company headquarters in Coesfeld-Lette also has a sales center with a high-bay warehouse. Another distribution center is located in Klieken, a district of Coswig (Saxony-Anhalt). All Ernsting's family branches are supplied from these two warehouses. In Schwarzenbek near Hamburg, the group of companies maintains a regional center that serves as a truck transshipment point for goods delivered to the Hamburg overseas port.

Others

Cooperation with the Fernuniversität Hagen

The Ernsting's family group operates the WBK Coesfeld educational and cultural center , which includes the Coesfeld branch of the Hagen Open University .

In 2006, 2012 and 2018 the three endowed professorships “Ernsting's family endowed professorship for contemporary sociological diagnoses”, “Ernsting's family junior endowed professorship for sociology of familial lifestyles, networks and communities” and “Ernsting's family endowed professorship for microsociology” were established at the Fernuniversität Hagen. The funds for this were provided by EHG Service GmbH , the parent company of Ernsting's family GmbH & Co. KG , for a period of five years.

According to the foundation contract, one of the tasks of the endowed professorships is to impart sociological knowledge to interested citizens. In this context, the Fernuniversität Hagen has been offering lectures and seminars in Coesfeld as part of the Citizens University Coesfeld since 2007.

social commitment

Ernsting's family supports the association Herzenswätze eV , which finances seriously ill children and young people the fulfillment of special wishes. This includes, among other things, several weeks of climate spa stays for children suffering from cystic fibrosis. Income from the sale of a regular charity children's collection, money from donation boxes in the branches and from internal company campaigns are donated to the association every year. In total, more than 3.5 million euros in donations have been forwarded in this way since 1992, the year the association was founded. In 2019, the association received a donation of 235,000 euros.

Ernsting's family has been a national sponsor of the German Sports Badge since 2013 and in this context supports, among other things, the annual sports badge tour organized by the German Olympic Sports Confederation .

With the “Kids Choir” project, Ernsting's family has been supporting primary schools in Germany and Austria since 2014 in setting up school choirs. The project sponsor is the German songwriter Arthur Horváth .

The Ernsting's real estate GmbH & Co. KG , a sister company of Ernsting's family GmbH & Co. KG , operated jointly by the non-profit arts and Kulturförderstifung Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof Herding the Theater Coesfeld , one built with funds from the business family Ernsting Theater and Concert Hall .

architecture

The campus of Ernsting's family's corporate headquarters in Coesfeld-Lette, designed by well-known architects and landscape architects, has been featured in the media several times as an example of successful commercial architecture and landscape design. The building ensemble includes a warehouse designed by Santiago Calatrava, completed in 1985, which houses one of the company's distribution centers, an office building completed in 2001 based on a design by the English architect David Chipperfield, which houses the headquarters of the company's administration, and an energy self-sufficient building built in 2012 High-bay warehouse with a prefabricated glass facade with photovoltaic modules planned by the glass artist Nabo Gaß. The car park with a wooden façade belonging to the campus was highlighted by the Federal Foundation for Building Culture as an example of good building culture. The landscape park surrounding the building was designed in part by the Belgian landscape architect Jacques Wirtz .

Corporate structure

The Ernstings's family GmbH & Co. KG is the main operating company of Ernsting's family group of companies. The group's holding company is EHG Service GmbH . The sister companies of Ernsting's family GmbH & Co. KG include Ernsting's family Austria GmbH , which is involved in the operative business in Austria, and Ernsting's real estate GmbH & Co. KG , which manages and manages the company's own real estate and rents and furnishes shops for branch business .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  34. ^ Heart wishes eV Association for seriously ill children and adolescents. www.herzenswuensche.de, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
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  39. ↑ Take off your family sports badge and receive a voucher. Press release. www.deutsches-sportabzeichen.de, April 10, 2013, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
  40. ↑ Sarah Kuhlmann: Compete on site in 30 disciplines. www.az-online.de, May 25, 2018, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
  41. ↑ Kids choir. Ernsting's family, accessed September 9, 2019 .
  42. ↑ Kids choir project started at Wallersheim primary school. www.blick-aktuell.de, September 24, 2014, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
  43. ↑ Children sing in a choir. www.weser-kurier.de, March 29, 2015, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
  44. ↑ The GGS Klauberg has a "kids choir"! www.weser-kurier.de, October 5, 2016, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
  45. ^ Ernsting Foundation Alter Hof Herding. Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
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  49. ↑ Anja Probe: Work more beautifully. www.textilwirtschaft.de, May 10, 2013, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
  50. ↑ Angela Bachmair: Shaping the wild nature. www.augsburger-allgemeine.de, April 3, 2014, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
  51. ↑ Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Ernsting's family outdoor facilities in LWL-GeodatenKultur, accessed on September 9, 2019
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  53. ↑ The high-bay warehouse Ernsting's Family. www.nabo.de, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
  54. ↑ Gisela Upmeyer: The glass high-bay warehouse . (PDF) In: Material Handling . No. 10, 2014, pp. 14-16.
  55. ^ Ernsting's Family, Park Palette, Coesfeld-Lette. Design of a car park with a wooden facade. www.bundesstiftung-baukultur.de, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
  56. ^ Ernsting's Family Campus, 1999–2006. Wirtz International Landscape Architects, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
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