HEMA (company)
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| legal form | Besloten vennootschap |
| founding | 1926 |
| Seat | Amsterdam , Netherlands |
| management | Tjeerd Jegen (CEO) |
| sales | EUR 1.24 billion (2017) |
| Branch | retail trade |
| Website | www.hema.nl |
The Hema BV (for H ollandse E enheidsprijzen M aatschappij A msterdam , German: "Dutch Unit Price Company Amsterdam") is a Dutch department store chain , which operates in Germany since 2002 branches. Typical for Hema are the low prices and the range of goods, all of which are produced exclusively by and / or for Hema.
background
The Dutch department store chain De Bijenkorf founded the budget line Hema in 1926. The first branch was founded in 1926 on Amsterdam's Kalverstraat - the busiest shopping street in the Netherlands. Part of the concept was that all items were sold at unit prices. In 2007, Hema was taken over by the private equity company Lion Capital ; After several sales attempts, the company was sold to Ramphastos Investments, the holding company of the Dutch investor Marcel Boekhoorn, in October 2018.
HEMA currently (2018) operates around 760 branches, mainly in the Netherlands (545), Belgium (97), Germany (22), Luxembourg (4), France (76), Austria (2), Great Britain (8) and Spain (9). The central warehouse is located in the Lage Weide industrial park in Utrecht .
The first German branch was opened in 2003 in the city center of Neuss . Six of the German branches are located in North Rhine-Westphalia , three in Lower Saxony and, since September 2010, a branch in Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Rhineland-Palatinate). The administrative headquarters of Hema GmbH & Co. KG are in Essen . The area productivity in the best German branches is around 2150 euros / m², in the Netherlands, however, a good 1000 euros more.
literature
- Manon Sikkel, Marion Witter: Ik mis alleen de Hema. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2006, ISBN 978-90-351-3031-9
- Stefan Vermeulen: HEMA. Dde onwaarschijnlijke ontsnapping van een nationaal icoon. Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2019, ISBN 978-90-446-3689-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Reutres: Lion Capital sells Dutch retailer HEMA to Dutch billionaire , October 25, 2018 (English)
- ↑ Sites-HemaDE-Site. In: hema.com. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Discount department store. Why doesn't Hema make the breakthrough? In: Real Estate Newspaper No. 26/1. July 2010, p. 7