Leather and shoe
| Leder and Schuh AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1872 |
| Seat | Graz , Austria |
| management | Wolfgang Neussner, board member
Michael Rumerstorfer, board member |
| Number of employees | 2,278 (2018) |
| sales | EUR 355 million (2018) |
| Branch | retail trade |
| Website | www.lsag.com |
The Leder & Schuh AG is an Austrian shoe retail chain based in Graz and sells shoes with the sales divisions HUMANIC in Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Shoe4You the home market Austria. With an annual turnover of 355 million euros (as of 2018) , the company is one of the largest shoe suppliers in Europe in the medium and upper segment and employs around 2,278 people at around 201 locations (as of 2018) .
The board consists of Wolfgang Neussner and Michael Rumerstorfer (as of 2019) .
history
The company was founded on the present site in 1872 as a DH Pollak & Co founded. Back then, the focus was on shoe production. After just a few years, the company was one of the largest producers in Central Europe with 20,000 shoes a week. The majority was sold through a network of branches in Austria-Hungary . In addition, shoes were exported worldwide under the company name Goodyear Welt-Schuhfabrik . In the course of this, further branches were founded in Constantinople (today's Istanbul ), Philippopel (today's Plovdiv / Bulgaria), Sofia and Berlin .
A large part of the branch network was lost during the First World War . However, the Allgemeine Österreichische Schuh-Aktien-Gesellschaft was bought as a production company . The foreign companies founded in the successor states were lost in the post-war years. Thus, the company concentrated on the small Austrian market and operated under the name Humanic Leder und Schuh AG, Vienna-Graz . In 1930 there were already 60 branches again.
Besides the economic difficulties during the Second World War , the factory was badly damaged by bombs. After the war, however, international collaborations were soon concluded, such as with the Italian company Calzaturificio di Varese .
In the 1960s the company exported to Western Europe and Scandinavia. Over 3000 shoe retailers across Europe were supplied both from our own production and from our own wholesalers. At the same time, the company set up production facilities in Deutschlandsberg , Radkersburg , Eibiswald and Feldbach .
Until 1977 the retail activities were carried out exclusively under the trademark Humanic. From then on, the company began to diversify in retail and expanded its sales to include Top Schuh. In 1988 the first Dominici stores were opened. A year later, Jello Schuhpark was founded.
In 1990 Leder & Schuh AG was founded, which acts as the parent company for the subsidiaries.
Until 1991, the company's retail stores only existed in Austria. Leder & Schuh later bought the Hungarian company Szivárvány Rt . From then on, the company gained a foothold in all of Austria's neighboring countries with the various sales lines. At the same time, it completely withdrew from shoe production and wholesaling in 1994.
In 2000 branches were set up in Slovenia, two years later in Germany and Slovakia.
Top Schuh was withdrawn from the market at the end of 2007. In 2008 branches were opened in Romania, in 2009 in Croatia and 2010 in Bulgaria.
In 2011 the company bought Stiefelkönig from BAWAG PSK , which withdrew to its core business.
After the successful strategic realignment of the Leder & Schuh Group in 2015 and 2016, the company is concentrating its activities on the sales lines HUMANIC and SHOE4YOU and is constantly expanding the range of goods and services in these areas: for example, the customer club "yourHUMANIC Club" was founded in 2017 successfully introduced in Austria.
In addition, HUMANIC is represented with the eShop www.humanic.net in Austria, Germany, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
literature
- Franz Mathis: Big Business in Austria. Austrian large companies in brief presentations . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1987, p. 156 ff., ISBN 978-3-486-53771-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stiefelkönig goes to Grazer Leder & Schuh AG on ORF on July 29, 2011, accessed on July 29, 2011.