Höffner (furniture store)
| Höffner Möbelgesellschaft GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1874 |
| Seat | Schönefeld |
| management | Kurt Krieger (owner), Thomas Dankert and Anja Landvoigt (managing director) |
| Number of employees | 6,000 |
| sales | more than 2 billion euros (2017) |
| Branch | Furniture trade and interior decoration, retail |
| Website | www.hoeffner.de |
The Höffner Möbelgesellschaft GmbH & Co. KG is a retail company in the furniture industry. The company is based in Schönefeld near Berlin.
The company is a full-range provider in the home and furnishings sector. Its core range includes around 100,000 products. In addition to furniture in a wide variety of styles, the company also offers household goods and home accessories .
history
Today's furniture store Höffner emerged from a carpentry shop founded by Rudolf Höffner in Berlin in 1874 , which had its workshop in the backyard. Until the outbreak of the Second World War, the Höffner family built their company into Berlin's largest furniture store.
When the war was over, a few pieces of furniture were probably made or, above all, repaired in the old workshop. However, due to the location in the Soviet-occupied sector of Berlin, the owners did not continue to run the company here.
The then business administration student Kurt Krieger bought the Höffner naming rights in 1967 and re-founded the company in Weddinger Pankstraße. The Krieger family also has a long family tradition in the furniture industry. Wilhelm Krieger had also founded a cabinet maker in 1910. After the Second World War, Krieger grew stronger and, under the direction of his son Wilhelm Krieger junior, became the furniture market leader in West Berlin .
Immediately after German reunification , the company began expanding in 1991, initially in the new federal states . Now the company headquarters has been relocated to Waltersdorf (from 2003 a district of Schönefeld ) on the outskirts of Berlin. In 2002 and 2004, the entrepreneur Krieger became active in southwest and north Germany through investments in Möbel Walther from Gründau-Lieblos and Möbel Kraft from Bad Segeberg. It was not until the beginning of 2005 that the first Höffner branch was opened in the old federal states with the takeover and renaming of the Fürth Franconian residential area.
In mid-2005, Krieger acquired the two furniture stores of the Möbel Erbe family chain , which had been awarded the Grand Prize for SMEs in 2002, in Hanau and Schkeuditz . Both were closed shortly after the takeover. The house in Hanau was partially demolished, the rest was an unused industrial ruin for years, and the Rondo retail park opened on the site in 2017. The building in Schkeuditz was used as a warehouse by Amazon for some time from 2008 and has been converted into the Leipzig-Halle Airport Park after a long vacancy.
On July 1, 2006, nine of the ten German furniture stores of Möbel Walther AG were renamed Höffner. The Möbel-Walther majority shareholder and Höffner owner Kurt Krieger had bought these beforehand. The Sconto self-service furniture stores remained part of Möbel Walther AG and in return took over the Möbel-Tick take-away stores from Höffner. At the beginning of 2008, Höffner opened Munich's largest furniture store in the Freiham district . In 2010 the 100th anniversary of the family business tradition was celebrated. With the takeover and renaming of the Rösrath furniture center in Rösrath near Cologne in 2010 and the move to Duisburg , which has not yet been implemented in 2013 , Höffner continues its expansion in West Germany. The strategy is to enable larger sales areas, with some locations being merged, as in 2013 in Magdeburg. As part of a strategic realignment of Möbel Mahler towards southern Germany, their house in Siebenlehn was sold to the Möbel-Höffner Group on January 1, 2014, which continues to operate under the Möbel Mahler brand. Two Höffner furniture stores were opened or completely rebuilt and reopened in 2016 - in Berlin-Schöneberg and in Rösrath.
In 2007 the Höffner branch in Barsbüttel was forbidden by the Lübeck regional court to advertise with discounts if a price had previously been raised at short notice and then immediately reduced again. The background to this was the discovery of a couple while looking for a sofa that a moon price was advertised for a short time . Höffner gave the manufacturer's price fluctuations as a reason, but these could not be proven.
At the end of August 2018 it was announced that Höffner will take over the Paderborn furniture chain Finke , provided the Federal Cartel Office approves. The takeover was confirmed in November 2018.
facts and figures
Höffner employs around 6,000 people, sells its products through stationary retail and, since 2014, through an online shop. Höffner has 23 furnishing centers, which are supplied from five central warehouses and a replenishment warehouse. The computer-controlled high-bay warehouses can accommodate 100,000 furniture containers on more than 600,000 m². Over 1000 orders are prepared for delivery every day. 750 company-owned trucks deliver throughout Germany.
The 23 branches are located in Berlin-Schöneberg , Berlin-Lichtenberg , Chemnitz , Cottbus-Wilmersdorf, Dresden-Elbepark , Erfurt-Waltersleben, Fürth, Gründau- Lieblos , Barsbüttel near Hamburg, Hamburg-Eidelstedt, Isernhagen near Hanover, Leuna OT Günthersdorf, Magdeburg-Pfahlberg, Munich-Freiham, Neuss, Paderborn, Rösrath, Bentwisch near Rostock, Schönefeld-Waltersdorf, Münster, Hamm, Kassel and Schwetzingen near Mannheim.
education
Höffner is a recognized training company of the IHK . Every year around 100 young people are trained in a wide variety of professions. These include retailers as well as specialists for system catering, specialists for warehouse logistics, specialists for office communication, specialists for furniture, kitchen and moving services, wood mechanics, designers for visual marketing, IT specialists and advertising specialists. In a special support program, Höffner trains junior executives for sales.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jochen Knoblach: Threshold into the Past , Berliner Zeitung , April 13, 2018, page 7.
- ↑ That's capitalism . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1995 ( online ).
- ↑ Höffner swallows rival Möbel Walther . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 24, 2002
- ↑ Berlin-based Höffner Group joins Möbel Kraft . In: Die Welt , January 8, 2004.
- ↑ Höffner revives . In: Fürther Nachrichten , May 4, 2005
- ↑ moebelkultur.de
- ↑ moebelkultur.de
- ↑ moebelkultur.de
- ↑ Furniture heritage in Schkeuditz is closed . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , July 20, 2007.
- ↑ Discounter instead of mobile park . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , February 16, 2011.
- ↑ op-online.de
- ↑ op-online.de
- ↑ Steinheimer Rondo shortly before the opening. May 11, 2017. Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Schkeuditz: Life moves into Watzschkenbreite . ( Memento from October 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , August 13, 2010
- ↑ Schkeuditz: Citizen participation on “Watzschkenbreite” . ( Memento from March 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , March 7, 2011
- ↑ Area of superlatives. Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Möbel Walther concentrates on the self-service take-away furniture sector . finanzen.net, June 20, 2006
- ↑ Höffner - Munich starts . Möbelkultur online, February 8, 2008
- ↑ Höffner - Yesterday partial reopening of Rösrather . Möbelkultur online, September 30, 2010
- ↑ Krieger wants to complete the Höffner and Sconto furniture stores in 2013 . derwesten.de , October 5, 2011
- ↑ Höffner expands into larger furniture stores ( Memento from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), press release from September 11, 2013, PDF, accessed on November 29, 2013
- ↑ Möbel Mahler denies speculation - no problems in Neu-Ulm. In: swp.de. January 14, 2014, accessed November 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Höffner buys Möbel-Mahler in Siebenlehn. In: Freiepresse.de. Retrieved November 3, 2016 .
- ↑ The Möbel Höffner company - many years of experience and top service. Retrieved May 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Married couple uncover discount tricks , Hamburger Abendblatt , February 23, 2008.
- ↑ Martin Krause: Höffner (Krieger Group) takes over the Paderborn furniture company Finke. In: nw.de. August 24, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
- Jump up ↑ Finke. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
- ↑ hoeffner.de , last accessed on January 9, 2017
- ↑ Locations on Hoeffner.de , last accessed on December 22, 2019