Furniture association

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A furniture retail buying association is called a furniture association. They are horizontal alliances of legally independent traders.

Historically, their main task has been to concentrate dealer demand in order to achieve improved purchase prices. The first companies to take on this task were founded in the 1950s. Since then, the companies have continuously expanded their field of activity and offer their members extensive additional services. Examples are financial services and insurance, centralized settlement , community advertising or shop fitting.

Furniture associations play an important role as sales assistants in the distribution of furniture. The 24 active furniture associations currently account for more than 60% of total furniture sales in Germany , currently 18.7 billion euros.

Active companies

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As of 2009, 24 companies were active in the Federal Republic of Germany. When choosing the legal norm, companies with limited liability and stock corporations predominate , but associations and cooperatives are also present.

In terms of sales, as of 2009 Begros from Oberhausen was the largest furniture association in Germany with an estimated foreign trade sales of four billion euros. In terms of the number of sales outlets, the Garant Group dominated in 2009 with 4,000 sales outlets.

Other companies are (as of 2009):

Association Outlets External sales in € million
Alliance Möbel Marketing GmbH & Co. KG 779 approx. 2,039
Atlas Einrichtungs -kauf-GmbH 32 approx. 2000
Begros 130 approx. 5200
Creative interior decorator 48 200
EMV Europe Furniture Association 2024 3800
Garant Group 4000 1800
GfM-Trend furniture purchasing association 688 approx. 1300
K3 furniture purchasing + marketing 48 k. A.
Mega network 4th k. A.
MZE Central Furniture Purchasing 502 k. A.
ProÖko service company 51 k. A.
Union Purchasing GmbH 200 3224
Establishment partner ring VME 400 3000
Living partner 72 k. A.
A-Plus kitchen professional 78 k. A.
Confederation independent Kitchen specialists BuK 61 k. A.
The district purchasing company. Kitchen & living approx. 2500 1970
The kitchen ring 478 k. A.
EK / servicegroup 3000 approx. 4000
Kitchen area 344 k. A.
Kitchen & Co. 85 k. A.
Kitchen partner 169 110
Kitchen meeting 275 k. A.
MHK group approx. 2500 3,101
KMG Zumbrock k. A. k. A.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Boshold: Cooperation Groups in furniture retail. Church u. Life sales u. Advertisement Verlag, Regensberg 1984, ISBN 3-7923-0525-9 .
  2. ↑ Holzmann: Furniture, Numbers, Data. Database (Retrieved March 2, 2010)
  3. ↑ a b Sparkasse Finance Group: Industry Report 2009. Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, 2009, WZ code 52.44
  4. ↑ Holzmann: Associations 2009. In: Möbelkultur. 03/2009.