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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1923 |
| Seat | Bielefeld , Germany |
| management | Daniel Terberger, CEO |
| Number of employees | 320 |
| sales | 1.088 billion euros (2016) |
| Branch | Wholesale , fashion - services , IT services , insurance |
| Website | katag.net |
Founded in 1923, KATAG is, according to its own statement, Europe's largest fashion service provider based in the East Westphalian city of Bielefeld . In addition to central purchasing, KATAG also offers specialized advisory services and sales support to the textile trade . The company also operates as a wholesaler in textile goods.
As a service provider, KATAG looks after 1,387 locations and achieved sales of 803 million euros in 2010 with 320 employees. The external sales of the 383 contractual partners in 2010 amounted to 3.3 billion euros.
The product range consists, among other things, of women's clothing, house and home textiles and leather goods. The own brands include Basefield , Staccato , Commander , In Linea , The Mercer (NY) , Living Dreams and Clarina Collection .
The group also includes KATAG Insurance Service and the IT service provider Hiltes International Partners , both from Bielefeld.
history
On January 22nd, 1923, Benno Katz founded the Katz Textil-Aktiengesellschaft in Bielefeld . A few months later, on April 1, 1923, the company set up its own linen factory. The products of the linen factory were given the KATAG trademark . In 1927, purchasing branches were opened in Chemnitz and Plauen . In 1928 the name of the purchasing association was changed to Katz & Michel Textil-Aktiengesellschaft and in 1929 a purchasing center was opened in Berlin .
Company founder Benno Katz died in 1934. His son Willy Katz was appointed to the supervisory board in the same year and appointed chairman, on the day of the November pogrom 1938 he fled to Berlin from imminent arrest, from there he emigrated to America via detours, where he lived on February 11, 1941 in Cleveland / Ohio died.
In 1937 the Banning - Berckemeyer - Terberger families acquired all shares in the course of the Aryanization and changed the original company name "Katz und Michel Textil-AG" to "KATAG AG". In 1938 Wilhelm Terberger took over the chairmanship of the board .
All KATAG AG buildings were destroyed during the Second World War . After the end of the war, reconstruction began , and as early as 1948 KATAG had around 240 employees and more than 100 contractual partners . Due to the currency reform in the three western occupation zones , the KATAG branches in the Soviet occupation zone were closed in 1949 .
Hans-Hermann Terberger, nephew of the chairman of the board Wilhelm Terberger, was appointed to the board in 1958. In the 1960s KATAG expanded further and in 1970 was able to achieve external sales of around DM 1 billion . In the same year Wilhelm Terberger died at the age of 75, and his nephew took over his duties.
In 1983 Hans-Hermann Terberger moved to the supervisory board and Karl-Heinz Manhardt was appointed spokesman for the board.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall , KATAG began expanding into the new federal states in 1990 and by 1997 already had 31 contract partners and 59 locations there. In 1994 Karl-Heinz Manhardt moved to the supervisory board and Hans-Hermann Terberger resigned from the position of chairman of the supervisory board. Marcus Cremer has been appointed as the new spokesman for the board. Through the merger with abz in 1999, KATAG AG became the largest association in the textile and clothing industry.
Daniel Terberger, son of the former board spokesman Hans-Hermann Terberger, succeeded Marcus Cremer as board spokesman in 2000.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ KATAG: KATAG company ( Memento from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed May 2019)
- ↑ a b KATAG: Facts and Figures ( Memento of the original from January 5, 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. (accessed March 2010)
- ↑ Ameretz : Ameretz.de ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2016 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.
- ↑ history. (No longer available online.) KATAG AG, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved February 9, 2013 . 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.
Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 19.9 ″ N , 8 ° 33 ′ 58.6 ″ E