Lüthy Balmer Stocker

Lüthy Balmer Stocker (legally: Lüthy + Stocker AG ) is the largest family-run book retailing company in Switzerland (national market share around 10 percent) and is one of the largest retail bookshops in German-speaking countries.

The company has its roots in a bookstore founded in Solothurn by the brothers Karl August and Friedrich Sauerländer from Aarau ( Verlag Sauerländer ) in 1838 , which was passed on to Louis Jent (founder of the newspaper Der Bund ) in 1841 and in 1898 by his former apprentice Adolf Lüthy senior. was acquired, converted into a joint stock company in 1978; it is also one of the oldest bookshops in Switzerland. In 1995, the Stocker bookshop in Lucerne, which is also steeped in tradition, was taken over, after which it merged with Balmer in Zug. The group now has thirteen branches (as of July 2018) and the online shop buchhaus.ch since 1996 .

The parent company in Solothurn has been at the same location on Gurzelngasse since 1838. Other branches are in Aarau , Biel (largest bilingual bookstore in Switzerland), Freiburg im Üechtland , Grenchen , Lucerne , Schaffhausen (Bücher Schoch), Schwyz , Stans ( Landespark shopping center ), Steinhausen ZG ( Zugerland shopping center ), Wallisellen (in the Glattzentrum ) , Zug and Zurich (in Sihlcity ).

As of 2012, the group employed around 200 people, 10 percent of whom were in training, and achieved sales of around 60 million francs. In 2013 Lüthy Balmer Stocker was awarded the Solothurn Entrepreneur Prize.

literature

Leo Altermatt : The Lüthy bookstore in Solothurn, 1838 - 1938. Memorandum for the centenary of the house. Lüthy, Solothurn 1938.

Web links

buchhaus.ch

Individual evidence

↑ The largest booksellers . In: book report . March 7, 2017. Accessed July 8, 2018.
^ Books Lüthy Solothurn . Lüthy Balmer Stocker. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
↑ It's also about cultural diversity , WOZ Die Wochenzeitung, No. 6/2012 of February 9, 2012
↑ ulrs: Solothurn Entrepreneur Prize 2013 goes to Lüthy bookstore . In: srf.ch . SRF Swiss radio and television. January 9, 2013. Accessed July 8, 2018.

[1] The largest booksellers . In: book report . March 7, 2017. Accessed July 8, 2018.

[2] Books Lüthy Solothurn . Lüthy Balmer Stocker. Retrieved July 8, 2018.

[3] It's also about cultural diversity , WOZ Die Wochenzeitung, No. 6/2012 of February 9, 2012

[4] ulrs: Solothurn Entrepreneur Prize 2013 goes to Lüthy bookstore . In: srf.ch . SRF Swiss radio and television. January 9, 2013. Accessed July 8, 2018.