Pfister Arco Holding
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1991 (1882 as Möbel Pfister) |
| Seat | Suhr , Switzerland |
| management | Rudolf Obrecht ( Board President / Delegate Board) |
| Number of employees | approx. 1,800 (2017) |
| sales | approx. CHF 600 million (as of 2013, figures have not been published since 2014) |
| Branch | Furniture retailers |
| Website | www.pfister.ch |
The Pfister Arco Holding AG , based in Suhr is active in the furnishing trade Swiss group. It employs around 1,800 people and is the market leader in Swiss furniture retailing.
The largest subsidiary of Pfister Arco Holding is Möbel Pfister AG , whose roots go back to 1882 and which today has 20 branches across Switzerland with 1,200 employees.
Business activity
Furniture Pfister
The furniture Pfister AG with a furniture - products and accessories supply are around the topics of living , eating and sleeping is the largest subsidiary of the group. Möbel Pfister operates three furniture centers, twelve furniture stores and five city branches with a total sales area of 175,000 m². Möbel Pfister also includes the design house Mobitare .
The company has branches throughout Switzerland and employs around 1,200 people and 200 trainees. The management is subject to Ivan Bosin (ad interim) as CEO and Rudolf Obrecht as Chairman of the Board of Directors. With branch and online trading, Möbel Pfister AG is the largest furniture retailer in Switzerland.
Möbel Pfister's own brands include Pfister Basic and Pfister Collection (complete furnishing ranges in the low and medium price segment), Pfister Classics (sofas and armchairs), Dine-Art (dining furniture), Dress-Art (wardrobes), Luna (bedroom furnishings) and Atelier Pfister (furniture and accessories designed by Swiss designers). The share of own brands in sales is around 50%.
Other subsidiaries
Arco Regio AG, Rothrist, which operates the independent furniture stores Möbel Egger in Eschenbach, Möbel Svoboda in Schwarzenbach and Möbel Hubacher with over 30,000 m² of retail space in Rothrist, is also under the umbrella of Pfister Arco Holding .
Pfister Professional AG, which specializes in floor coverings, curtain systems, furniture and design, mainly works for business customers in the field of contract furnishings and has seven locations in Switzerland.
The subsidiary Pfister Vorhang Service AG specializes in the development of fabric collections and home advice. It produces and assembles curtains, textile interior decorations and facilities for interior shading. The laundry Jenny AG , which offers the cleaning of curtains and interior shading , also belongs to Pfister Vorhang Service AG .
The subsidiary Arco Immobilien Management AG offers real estate services for its own buildings and third-party clients. She is also responsible for handling construction projects and for insurance at Pfister Arco Holding.
history
In 1882 Johann Jakob Pfister opened a furniture and bedding shop with a workshop in Kleinbasel. After his death in 1912, his wife Margaretha Pfister-Christen became the manager of the shop and workshop. In 1916 his son Fritz Gottlieb Pfister took over the company. The first truck was purchased in 1918, expanding the scope of deliveries across the city and into the region. In 1922 Fritz Gottlieb Pfister converted the company into a stock corporation and opened a branch in Zurich and two years later in Bern . In 1934 Pfister introduced the “Social Insurance Fund”, an exemplary pension fund for employees.
In 1939 the company opened a large factory and administration building on the main road Zurich-Bern in Suhr, which was subsequently expanded into a factory exhibition. Because of the ban on opening branches due to the outbreak of war, the residential exhibition was not allowed to operate; therefore the shop windows were covered with white paint. In 1941 the head office was relocated from Basel to Suhr. With the opening of new branches expanded Pfister 1949 the Ticino and 1950 in the French-speaking Switzerland . In the boom years after the end of the war, the company flourished, with the number of employees growing to 500 by the 75th anniversary in 1957. At that time, 18 trucks were available for national delivery. At the beginning of the 1960s, the product range was expanded and the furniture store was converted into a furniture store: in addition to furniture, lights, home textiles, curtains and carpets were also offered as equal departments. At the same time, the direct purchase of oriental carpets is successfully established, making Pfister the leading oriental carpet specialist in Switzerland. In 1966 Fritz Gottlieb Pfister, who ran the company until 1963, sold the family shares to the company's own pension foundation.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the company expanded by opening large sales centers in Etoy (1978) and Dübendorf (1988). In 1991 the various parts of the company were brought together under the roof of Pfister Arco Holding . In 1995 Pfister was one of the first licensees of the carpet fair trade organization STEP . At the end of the 1990s and in the 2000s, expansion accelerated through the opening of further branches and centers throughout Switzerland (Pratteln in 1997, Geneva-Meyrin in 2001, Mels in 2003, Spreitenbach in 2003, Emmen in 2005, Alchenflüh-Lyssach in 2007, 2008 downtown Bern, 2011 Villeneuve). In 1994 Pfister sold the Top Tip subsidiary to Coop . In 2015 Möbel Hubacher AG was taken over.
From the idea of a sponsorship competition for young Swiss designers, a new furniture collection with the brand name "Atelier Pfister" developed by June 2010. In 2017, the company presented the world's first fully biodegradable curtain based on the cradle-to-cradle principle .
Möbel Pfister has also been offering part of its range on galaxus.ch since November 2018 .
In 2019 the Pfister Group was taken over by the XXXLutz Group .
Corporate structure
The FG Pfister Foundation is the sole shareholder of Pfister Arco Holding AG . The holding company includes the following subsidiaries:
- Möbel Pfister AG, Suhr
- Arco Regio AG, Rothrist
- Möbel Egger GmbH, Eschenbach
- Möbel Svoboda AG, Schwarzenbach
- Möbel Hubacher AG, Rothrist
- Pfister Curtain Service AG, Thörishaus
- Laundry Jenny AG, Thörishaus
- Pfister Professional AG, Suhr
- Arco Immobilien Management AG, Suhr
literature
- Image brochure, Suhr 1989.
- Helmut Hillen: Marketing of the market leader Möbel Pfister , in: Realization of Marketing. Marketing in different situations of markets and companies , ed. by Christian Belz, St. Gallen 1986, pp. 667-689.
- Andreas Steigmeier : Furniture Pfister. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Möbel Pfister on the industrial culture database of the Association of Aargau Museums and Collections
Web links
- Website of Möbel Pfister AG
- Möbel Egger website
- Furniture Svoboda website
- Website from Möbel Hubacher
- Pfister Professional AG website
- Website of Arco Immobilien Management AG
- Article in the Aargauer Zeitung
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Pfister Group company portrait ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2017 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 on July 29, 2017)
- ↑ cf. Handelszeitung , April 14, 2016, p. 19
- ↑ History (accessed July 29, 2017)
- ↑ Möbel Pfister: Chef Matthias Baumann is stepping down with immediate effect. In: blick.ch . September 10, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 .
- ↑ a b cf. Handelszeitung , April 14, 2016, p. 21
- ↑ Pfister Basic (accessed July 29, 2017)
- ↑ Pfister Collection ( 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 on July 29, 2017)
- ↑ Pfister Classics ( Memento of the original of July 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 29, 2017)
- ↑ Dine-Art ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2017 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 on July 29, 2017)
- ↑ Dress-Art ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2017 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 on July 29, 2017)
- ↑ Luna (accessed July 29, 2017)
- ↑ Atelier Pfister ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2017 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 on July 29, 2017)
- ↑ Pfister takes over Möbel Hubacher (accessed on July 29, 2017)
- ↑ Pfister Professional ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2017 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 on July 29, 2017)
- ↑ Pfister Vorhang Service AG (accessed on July 29, 2017)
- ^ Laundry Jenny AG (accessed on July 29, 2017)
- ↑ Möbel Pfister brings the super curtain (accessed on July 29, 2017)
- ↑ Marcel Speiser: Pfister sells on Galaxus - and wants to go abroad. In: handelszeitung.ch. November 7, 2018, accessed November 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Sale to Austria - XXXLutz Group takes over Möbel Pfister. In: srf.ch . October 23, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019 .
