Lloyd Shoes
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | February 13, 1888 |
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Sulingen , Germany
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| Number of employees | approx. 1800 (2018) |
| sales | 130 million euros (2018) |
| Branch | Clothing industry |
| Website | www.lloyd.com |
| As of May 16, 2019 | |
The Lloyd Shoes GmbH (proper spelling: LLOYD ) is a German shoe manufacturer based in Sulingen . The wholly-owned subsidiary of Ara AG sells men's and women's shoes, briefcases, purses, shirts, leather clothing, socks and bags.
history
Hermann Friedrich Meyer founded the HF Meyer shoe factory in Bremen on February 13, 1888 .
In 1898, the employees feared by the use of newly developed machines in Zwickerei wage cuts and on strike the company. The social tensions of the Bremen workforce, also in the shoemaking trade, resulted in April 1897 a. a. to work stoppages of the shoemaker journeyman in other companies. With the delivery of 23 pairs of shoes to the Netherlands in 1923, the company began business operations across countries with the intention of supplying the European market and thereby expanding exports.
The initial daily production of around 180 pairs was increased to 400–500 pairs by 1936. A Reich labor camp was located on the factory site at Bogenstrasse 6 during National Socialism .
On December 23, 1943, the war-related relocation of the stamping shop to Sulingen, which began in 1942 and was completed, ended the 55-year-old operation on Doventorsteinweg. In December 1943, the factory building in Bremen was largely destroyed by bombs. In 1946 production was resumed at the new location.
In 1999/2000, Lloyd Schuhfabrik Meyer und Co., limited liability company was renamed Lloyd Shoes GmbH & Co. KG , with a change in the shareholder structure, and Ara AG from Langenfeld (North Rhine-Westphalia) through limited partner contributions, in two tranches , with 5 million. € equipped.
In 2018 the company commemorated its 130th anniversary, combined with the 50th anniversary of the red stripe .
Brand name
In the search for a catchy term for its products and in order to also make a distinctive appearance in export , the company name Lloyd was chosen based on the coffee house owner Edward Lloyd , which has remained unchanged to this day. In 1905, the family company secured the Lloyd brand , and on September 30, 1925, the logo was also protected. From 1927 it traded exclusively with Lloyd and corresponding additions in different companies.
Production facilities
Only a small part of the products is still manufactured in Germany. According to the business magazine brand eins (2018), of the approximately 7,500 pairs of shoes produced daily, 5600 come from the factories in Romania and India . For the remaining 1,900 pairs imported are soles and uppers ( shafts ) assembled at the plant in addition to the corporate headquarters in northern Germany Sulingen, where about 550 of the total 700 employees in Germany work. Only the welted noble line 1888 is completely produced in Sulingen. The parent plant in Sulingen is the largest employer in Sulingen and the largest shoe manufacturer in Lower Saxony . On July 7, 2020, the company announced that it would suspend production at the Sulingen location in the autumn due to decreased demand as a result of the corona pandemic .
Corporate structure
The company trains shoe manufacturers . In earlier years the trainees were taught in the shoe school in Pirmasens, today they attend the local vocational school.
Lloyd has 13 subsidiaries across Europe, plus 28 concept stores and 12 factory outlets . The company has 3,350 sales outlets and exports to more than 56 countries. Around 1.8 million pairs of shoes were produced in 2018.
Subsidiaries
(Selection)
- 2009: Lloyd Shoes Switzerland GmbH with share capital of CHF 40,000
Web links
supporting documents
- ↑ Bremer Gruppe Arbeiterpolitik (ed.): Die Bremer Left Radicals . 2nd edition Bremen 1979, p. 10: Strike of the shoemaker's journeymen and the workers of the jute spinning mill (PDF; 5.1 MB), accessed on February 17, 2012.
- ↑ Strike data of the shoemaker journeymen and jute workers , accessed on February 17, 2012.
- ↑ Lloyd was family-owned for 111 years . In: Die Welt , accessed on February 15, 2012.
- ^ Civil labor camp . ( Memento of July 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) zinelibrary.info, accessed on February 15, 2012 (PDF; 1.4 MB).
- ^ Reich labor camp , accessed on February 15, 2012.
- ↑ A Lloyd in front of the Lloyd shoe factory in Sulingen ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 15, 2012
- ↑ Lloyd Time, Volume 14, 2.11, pp. 16 and 17 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 13, 2012
- ↑ Sulingen District Court, HRA 370
- ↑ a b Magazine: van Bommel: What should we in Miami? In: brandeins.de. May 23, 2019, accessed December 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Andreas Behling: Lloyd Shoes in crisis: shoe manufacturer stops production in Sulingen - mayor appalled. Kreiszeitung, July 8, 2020, accessed on July 8, 2020 .
- ↑ swiss–register.ch , accessed on February 13, 2012.
- ^ Lloyd Shoes Switzerland GmbH , accessed on February 2, 2012.
Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′ 24.5 " N , 8 ° 47 ′ 0.7" E