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JA Woll-Handels GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1985
Seat Soltau , Germany
management Ralf Hartwich, Anke Sieverding ( Managing Director )
Number of employees 1279
sales 212 million euros
Branch Discount stores
Website www.jawoll.de
As of March 24, 2020

The JA Woll-Handels GmbH (or donated , an acronym for "Coats Suits wool") is a German branch network of discount stores , former Special Markets , based in Soltau . At the end of 2018 Jawoll operated 86 branches with a focus on northern and central Germany.

Company history

Rolf-Dieter Stern opened a first Jawoll special item market in Soltau as early as 1985, followed by another in Uelzen five months later. Due to the lack of success with only two locations, Stern decided to team up with Wolf-Hinrich Haltermann, Johannes Schaaf and Reiner Schulte. Together they founded JA Woll-Handels GmbH in 1987, with each managing director having his own locations. The trading company was originally a buyer of remaining stock , seasonal surpluses and goods from insurance claims. Goods were also imported from China, Pakistan, Indonesia, Vietnam and Turkey.

In 2007 the four former managing directors gave up their position to Stern's son Ingo Stern. Then Nils Hansen and Ralf Hartwich became managing directors in the same year. In addition to the Jawoll brand, after the takeover of the Fulda company in 2008 there was also HaFu, which means “Has everything for us”. On December 8, 2009, four companies merged into Jawoll Vertriebs GmbH, which was founded by Ingo Stern at the end of 2007, thereby giving up their branches.

In 2014, the Luxembourg holding SBR Europe, owner of the B&M Group, took over the company with an 80% majority. Subsequently, Jawoll Vertriebs GmbH merged with the remaining sales companies of Stern. In 2017, all HaFu stores were renamed to Jawoll in order to appear uniformly.

In 2017, Stern and Hansen resigned from their positions, followed by Hartwich in 2018 and Christian Müller became the new managing director.

The branches were rebuilt after the purchase, the company logo and range of goods were renewed.

In 2019 Christian Müller resigned from his position and Ralf Hartwich became the new managing director.

Company today

Jawoll market in Hemmingen near Hanover

The organization of JA Woll-Handels GmbH consists of four parts, which are subject to the managing director: Purchasing, marketing and logistics, real estate management and sales via Jawoll Vertriebs GmbH, a subsidiary. Purchases are made centrally at the company's headquarters in Soltau and are managed by the Chief Commercial Officer, who is responsible for logistics management and 25 other retail employees. In real estate management, two employees are responsible for managing real estate.

The markets are franchised and run by the Chief Operating Officer . The regional managers are responsible for a large number of stores, for which the corresponding store managers are responsible.

Jawoll is actively and rapidly expanding; since 2007, an average of two to three branches have been opening each year. Eleven branches were opened in the 2017/18 financial year. In the past, the Jawoll stores replaced closed branches of competitors such as Hagebau and Toom .

The company mainly markets itself through advertising inserts in newspapers and on the Internet, where the latest weekly offers are advertised. In 2016 there were 2.6 million advertising inserts per week. The brochures are created by the company itself.

Jawoll Vertriebs GmbH employed a total of 1,279 people in 2018.

The company trains specialist warehouse clerks , salespeople or merchant in retail, as well as merchant in wholesale and foreign trade .

range

Jawoll offers products in the areas of food, beverages, drugstore, pet food, household, decoration, electronics, small furniture as well as clothing and shoes. There are also seasonal offers such as plants, garden items, bicycles and decorations for the festive season. The stores have up to 40,000 items in their range.

Since the integration into the B&M Group and the transition to a discounter, the stores have expanded their range. Well-known brands such as Nestlé , Corny and Milka in the food sector , as well as Whiskas and Frolic in the pet food sector, became an integral part.

Web links

Individual evidence

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