Interio
| Interio AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1974 |
| Seat | Dietikon , Switzerland |
| management | Malin Jaunin-Nydahl ( CEO ) Beat Zahnd ( Chairman of the Board ) |
| Number of employees | 644 |
| sales | 155 million CHF |
| Branch | Furniture retailers |
| Website | www.interio.ch |
| Status: October 22, 2019 | |
The Interio AG based in Dietikon is active in the furnishing trade Swiss company that for Migros belongs Corporation. Interio employs 644 people and generated sales of 155 million Swiss francs in 2017.
Field of activity
The nine Interio furniture stores and the online shop offer a diverse range of furniture and home accessories in the areas of living, eating, sleeping, bathing and working, and light. In addition to a range of furnishings, Interio presents living ideas that change seasonally. Interio offers home delivery, assembly service, rental transport, disposal and spare parts procurement.
history
The company was founded in 1974 by the Globus Group , moved into a warehouse in Pfaffnau and in the same year opened its first branch on Klybeckstrasse in Kleinbasel . In March 1979 the second branch followed in Dietlikon (Greater Zurich Area); the third branch in March 1980 in Emmenbrücke (greater Lucerne area). With the expansion, a new distribution center in Nebikon was moved into in 1981 . The company suffered a serious setback on May 12, 1982 with the fire in the Basel branch , which destroyed inventory worth two million francs. In March 1983, Interio opened the first branch in French-speaking Switzerland with the Morges branch . The Basel branch was reopened in Pratteln in 1984 , around ten years after the opening of the first branch in Kleinbasel.
In March 1985, French- speaking Switzerland received its second branch in Vernier (greater Geneva area). A year later, in March 1986, the branch in Abtwil (Greater St. Gallen area) followed. In 1987 diversification began with the opening of the first Interio boutique on Claraplatz in Basel and the first contracts for expansion to Austria with a distribution center and two planned locations in Vienna and Linz ; the responsible "Interio Möbel undeinrichtungen GmbH" was founded in August 1988. In the course of 1989 the distribution center in Nebikon was almost doubled from 15,000 m² to 26,000 m² and formed the scene of the company's 15th anniversary. The seventh furniture store followed in March 1990 in Spreitenbach , also in the greater Zurich area and the company's legal headquarters from the end of the year.
In Austria , the distribution center in Guntramsdorf started operations in May 1990 , followed by the first branch in Linz in October 1990; the second branch in Vienna- Floridsdorf was added in 1991. The location in Schönbühl (Greater Bern area) was also opened in 1991 , so that Interio was now represented in all metropolitan areas of German-speaking Switzerland for the first time . In February 1992, the Dietlikon location moved to Dübendorf , in the direct vicinity of the "residential area" of Möbel-Pfister AG, which was opened in 1988 . In the same year, another furniture store in Austria was opened in Vösendorf , at the Shopping City Süd . In the following years, the branch network was expanded in particular through the opening of further boutiques (and later also residential galleries) in cities: 1993 in the old town of Lucerne , 1994 on Rennweg in Zurich , 1996 in Glattzentrum in Wallisellen and on Mariahilfer Strasse in Vienna, 1997 in Lausanne .
With the 1997 sale of the Globus Group to the Federation of Migros Cooperatives (MGB), Interio AG also became its property. Interio Austria was assigned to the franchisee Janet Kath in mid-2000 . At the end of 2006, Migros dissolved the previously independently managed group structure of the Globus Group and managed the individual companies of the former Globus Group, including Interio, as independent companies within the Migros Group. This restructuring and the acquisition of Denner resulted in the constitution of the MGB Department VI (trade) in 2008, and the relocation of the headquarters from Spreitenbach to Dietikon in August 2008. In January 2009, Migros acquired 49% of the German trading company Gries Deco Holding (GDH ), which sells home accessories, home decoration articles and small furniture under the name “Depot”. Interio launched a new store concept, the Depot-Interio-Boutiques. The co-branding was dissolved on July 1, 2012. Interio continues to run the furniture stores under the Interio brand, while the boutiques are run by Depot.
Interio expanded the branch network in Switzerland to twelve furniture stores, with openings in Villeneuve (March 2011), Contone (March 2012), Suhr (August 2013) and Granges-Paccot (April 2016). The unexpectedly poor business performance of the branch in Suhr, in the Pfister-Center of Pfister Arco Holding , was followed by the closure of the branch after a good three years at the end of 2016. In the 2015 financial year, Interio had to accept a decline in sales of 2.7%, the online market on the other hand grew by 32.9 percent.
As part of a final restructuring, the Interio branches were transferred to interested Migros cooperatives in the second quarter of 2018, putting them on an equal footing with the cooperatives' Micasa specialist stores. The cooperatives in Zurich , Lucerne , Eastern Switzerland and Basel each took over the only branch in their area of activity, Migros Aare in addition to its two "own" branches, as well as the five branches in western Switzerland and Ticino.
Around a year later, in June 2019, MGB director Fabrice Zumbrunnen announced that he wanted to sell all of the unprofitable company divisions from the Commerce department, including in particular Globus, Interio and Depot. In November 2019, Migros announced that the XXXLutz Group would take over six of the eleven branches and convert them to Mömax locations. The remaining five branches will be gradually closed by September 2020.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Migros generates CHF 28 billion in sales In: blick.ch , January 17, 2018, accessed on January 17, 2018.
- ↑ a b Branch search - Interio Switzerland. Interio, accessed December 28, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Furniture Switzerland - Buy now in the online shop - Interio Switzerland. Interio, accessed December 28, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Migros Annual Report 2015 (PDF) Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund, 2016, accessed on December 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Migros is back at the start with Interio. Handelszeitung , July 19, 2012, accessed on December 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Interio closes branch in Suhr. Interio, May 19, 2016, accessed October 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Entry "Interio AG" in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich
- ↑ Ernst Meier: That's behind the big sell-out at Migros. Berner Zeitung , June 28, 2019, accessed on October 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Leo Eiholzer: “Interio” brand disappears: XXXLutz continues to expand after buying furniture from Pfister. Luzerner Zeitung , November 29, 2019, accessed on November 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Natalie Gratwohl: Migros is giving up the Interio furniture store - what happens to Globus and Depot? Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 29, 2019, accessed on November 29, 2019 .