Mahler furniture
| Möbel Mahler Einrichtungszentrum GmbH & Co. KG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1900 |
| Seat | Neu-Ulm , Bavaria , Germany |
| management | Michael Mahler, Uwe Kern |
| Number of employees | approx. 350 (as of 2018) |
| sales | 180 million euros (2012) |
| Branch | Retail ( furniture , upholstered furniture, kitchens, bathrooms, housewares, carpets, lights, mattresses) |
| Website | https://www.opti-wohnwelt.de/moebelhaus-neu-ulm/ |
The furniture Mahler Furniture Center GmbH & Co. KG is a retail company in the furniture industry with headquarters in the Bavarian town of Neu-Ulm . The company is a full-line supplier of home and furnishing products with a branch in Neu-Ulm and operates an online shop on its website. The branches in Bopfingen and Wolfratshausen were closed at the beginning of 2016 after they were sold to a real estate company belonging to the XXXLutz Group. Approx. As a result, 700 employees lost their jobs. The furniture store has been part of the Opti-Wohnwelt group since April 2019.
history
In 1909, the master joiner Georg K. Mahler started manufacturing furniture in his workshop in Kirchheim am Ries . In 1936 the son Georg Mahler took over the business. After returning from captivity, he was able to resume work. At the beginning of the 1950s, the carpenter's kitchen buffets became the company's bestseller. During the economic miracle , Mahler expanded his company's business area to include furniture trading . In 1959 a shop with exhibition space was opened for this purpose. The first furniture store as we know it today was opened in Bopfingen in 1974 and later gradually expanded. In 1982 a further location was added with the facility center in Wolfratshausen.
Möbel Mahler opened the largest furniture store to date in 2009 in Siebenlehn, Saxony . It comprises 34,000 m² of exhibition space. In August 2013, a fourth branch with twice the sales area was opened in Neu-Ulm . As part of a strategic reorientation towards southern Germany, the house in Siebenlehn was sold to the Möbel-Höffner Group on January 1, 2014 . However, it continues to operate under the Möbel Mahler brand.
In November 2015, the company's management announced that it would close the two branches in Bopfingen and Wolfratshausen promptly for economic reasons. Talks with several potential buyers had previously failed. A total of around 600 employees at both locations are affected. Only the Neu-Ulm branch will remain as a location.
On April 1, 2019, Möbel Mahler joined the family-run company Opti-Wohnwelt Föst GmbH & Co. KG.
social commitment
Möbel Mahler has been promoting the construction of schools in Romania and Ethiopia since 2002 : on the one hand the elementary school in Delema in Central Ethiopia, on the other hand the "Tedla W. Giorgis School" in Northern Shoa . The company also supports the Children's Aid Organ Transplantation (KiO).
Web links
- Möbel Mahler website
- Website of Opti-Wohnwelt opti-wohnwelt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ schwaebische.de schwaebische.de
- ↑ moebelkultur.de Möbelkultur Online
- ↑ Möbel Mahler closes branches in Bopfingen and Wolfrathshausen. In: Südwestpresse. November 18, 2015. (m.swp.de)
- ↑ Neu-Ulm: Mahler furniture sold to Opti-Wohnwelt. Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH, February 22, 2019, accessed on June 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Möbel Mahler expands sales area in Siebenlehn. ( Memento from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Möbel Mahler starts in summer 2013 in Neu-Ulm.
- ↑ Möbel Mahler sells Siebenlehn.
- ↑ A bang: Möbel Mahler in Wolfratshausen closes. November 18, 2015. (tz.de)
- ↑ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Neu-Ulm: Mahler furniture sold to Opti-Wohnwelt. February 22, 2019, accessed June 12, 2019 .