HIT trading group

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HIT trading group

logo
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1901
Seat Siegburg , Germany
management
  • Carl Bauerschmitz
  • Rene Plasmann
Number of employees approx. 6,800
sales approx. EUR 1.36 billion (2008)
Branch Grocery retail
Website www.hit.de

The HIT Handelsgruppe GmbH & Co. KG is a food retail company and an additional range of household goods, electrical appliances, books and other media.

HIT belongs to the Dohle trading group , which is family owned.

history

Gerhard Schröder founded in 1901 in Quadrath in Bergheim his first grocery store . In 1919 his son Peter Schröder founded a food wholesaler and a coffee roastery with liquor production. In 1953 his daughter Maria Schröder got into the business.

Jean Dohle (born 1904, died 1992) founded his grocery store in Quirrenbach in the Siebengebirge in 1927 . In 1955, the Schröder and Dohle businesses joined the German TIP trade organization. After Kurt Dohle (born 1935) met and married Maria Schröder, the businesses of Schröder and Dohle merged in 1960 to form the Dohle trading group .

Further cash & carry stores were set up. In 1970 the central administration in Sankt Augustin was established. Today there is a Hit sales channel on the site. The main administration was relocated to Siegburg in the 1990s.

Building the chain

The Dohle trading group received the Golden Sugar Loaf from the Lebensmittel Zeitung in 1972 for outstanding achievements in the field of the food industry. In 1974 the first HIT discount department store was opened in Bonn-Tannenbusch, which was closed on January 31, 2015 and replaced by a hypermarket of the Kaufland chain . This was followed by further openings in Kerpen-Sindorf, Sankt Augustin (at the headquarters) and in Bonn-Bad Godesberg. With partners, stores were then opened in northern Germany (Münster, Hildesheim) and in southern Germany (Karlsruhe, Schweinfurt).

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification in 1990, the company expanded to East Germany. In 1994 the first hypermarket HIT Warsaw was opened in Poland .

Expansion through acquisitions

The Dohle Group grew primarily through takeovers: While only 17 branches were operated in 1986, in 1998, after taking over 8 TOP hypermarkets, there were already 56 branches. In 2000, Tengelmann took over 19 wholesale branches and in 2002 four more Grenzland branches (= 79 stores). In 2005 5 REWE and 9 Brülle & Schmeltzer stores are taken over (= 93 branches).

There are currently 88 branches, mainly in the Siegburg area (= 17 branches), in the rest of North Rhine-Westphalia and the neighboring Rhineland-Palatinate, but also in the Munich area (= 10 branches). The HIT hypermarkets should have a consumption area of ​​2,500 to 5,000 m² and min. 150 parking spaces.

It employs over 6,800 people and 660 trainees (as of 2006). Sales in 2008 are expected to be around EUR 1.35 billion.

Since 2006 there has been a cooperation in purchasing, financing and logistics with the Rewe Group , which also led to the addition of Rewe private labels to the range.

In July 2015, the Cartel Office approved the takeover of the regional Berlin retailer Ullrich Consumer Market , who had previously been a HIT franchisee.

HIT Poland

After starting a HIT hypermarket in Warsaw in 1994 , another 13 HIT hypermarkets were soon added, with 2004 sales of around 540 million euros. The HIT stores in Poland were sold to the Tesco supermarket chain in 2004 for 600 million euros .

System partner

The Dohle has so-called system partners who use the full scope of administration using the latest SAP technology. Since 2006, this includes the large dodenhof gourmet market in Posthausen near Bremen, as well as the 11 AEZ stores in the Munich area.

Corporate governance

Kurt Dohle (born 1935) enabled his son Klaus Dohle (born 1966) to join the company in 1995. Klaus Dohle took over the management in 2000, while his father Kurt Dohle took over the chairmanship of the advisory board. His son Ralf Dohle is also involved in the Dohle Handelsgruppe Holding .

The finance and logistics boss Reinhard Schütte had resigned in September 2008. He joined EDEKA in mid-2009 as Chief Financial Officer. The Swiss Christoph Clavadetscher , who only came from Coop (Switzerland) in mid-2005 , also left the HIT trading group at the end of November 2008.

Charitable commitment

The HIT trading group is involved in the HIT Foundation Children need a future (since October 16, 2003) and in the HIT Environment and Nature Conservation Foundation GmbH HIT is the main sponsor of the regional league team Fortuna Cologne .

Trivia

The customers of the HIT-Ullrich-market in the Berlin Mohrenstraße heard Angela Merkel .

literature

  • Martin Scheele: Family Dohle - Nemo in the shark tank . In: Manager magazine . August 24, 2005 ( manager-magazin.de ).
  • Delphine Sachsenröder: Siegburg family company between industry giants . In: General-Anzeiger . August 30, 2006 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed May 30, 2016]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint - HIT - real variety. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Delphine Sachsenröder: From the village shop to the test supermarket . In: Generalanzeiger . May 8, 2003 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed May 30, 2016]).
  3. ↑ Stefan Knopp: Hit-Markt announces staff. In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de. July 3, 2014, accessed February 29, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.hit.de
  5. ↑ http://www.sap.com/germany/media/50082415.pdf  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sap.com  
  6. ↑ Delphine Sachsenröder: Siegburger Dohle trading group wants to grow with "hit" markets . In: Generalanzeiger . November 15, 2008 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed on May 30, 2016]).
  7. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/bezirke/charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/streit-um-ladenoeffnung-in-berlin-ullrich-markt-am-bahnhof-zoo-hat-eigentlich-immer-auf/12282376.html
  8. ↑ Martin Scheele: Family Dohle - Nemo in the shark tank . In: Manager magazine . August 24, 2005 ( manager-magazin.de - 4th part).
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 3, 2008 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. Photo by Ralf Dohle @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bzneuwied.de
  10. ↑ http://www.ftd.de/koepfe/:Personalien-des-Tages/443572.html ( Memento from June 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Julian Stech: Siegburger Dohle Group loses boss. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn. November 28, 2008, accessed May 30, 2016 .
  12. ^ Markus Köchli: Christoph Clavadetscher. In: Handelszeitung . December 11, 2008, accessed May 30, 2016 .
  13. ↑ http://www.hit-stiftung.de/
  14. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 9, 2009 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 / hit-umweltstiftung.de
  15. ↑ http://www.fortuna-koeln.de/Sponsoren/Sponsoren/Hauptsponsor.aspx
  16. ↑ https://www.rtl.de/cms/trotz-corona-krise-angela-merkel-kauf-selbst-im-supermarkt-ein-4508601.html