Import perfumery
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| legal form | Division of Coop (until 2002 public limited company ) |
| founding | 1976 |
| Seat | Winterthur , Switzerland |
| management | Michael Susta (Head of Division) |
| Number of employees | 672 (503 FTE ) |
| sales | 146 million CHF |
| Branch | Retail trade |
| Website | www.impo.ch |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
The Import Parfumerie is a Swiss cosmetics chain . It operates a total of 124 branches (December 2013) as well as an online shop, and in 2013 generated sales of 159 million Swiss francs with over 670 employees. The perfumery chain has been part of the Swiss Coop Group since 1998 .
history
The company was founded in 1976 under the name IMPO Import Parfümerien AG in Zurich as a discounter for perfumes , cosmetics and body care products . In 1989 the company, which now had 16 branches, was taken over by Pick Pay . By the mid-1990s, the branch network had increased to 47 locations. In 1994 Coop became a shareholder with a 50 percent stake. In the same year, the chain started its mail order business and expanded into western Switzerland . In 1998 Coop took over complete control of IMPO Import Perfumeries. As part of a restructuring of the Coop Group, IMPO Import Parfümerien was dissolved as an independent stock corporation in 2002 and the activities were integrated as an independent division within the Coop Group under the name Import Parfumerie . The divisional headquarters of Import Parfumerie are now in Winterthur .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Coop Group in figures: employees. (PDF; 184 KB) In: report.coop.ch. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Factsheet Import Parfumerie. (PDF; 621 KB) In: report.coop.ch. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Annual Report 2010 of the Coop Group (PDF; 11.9 MB)