Manufactum

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Manufactum

logo
legal form GmbH
founding 1987 
Seat Waltrop , North Rhine-Westphalia
management Max Heimann and Kai Steffan
Number of employees about 500
sales 92 million euros (2016)
Branch Retail with shipping
Website www.manufactum.de

The Manufactum GmbH (formerly Manufactum Hoof & Partner KG), based in Waltrop , North Rhine-Westphalia , is a retail company with mail order and stationary sales. It has been part of the Otto Group since 2008 .

history

Thomas Hoof was previously a state manager of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1987 he went into business for himself and founded a mail order business for high-quality manufactured products called Manufactum . The name should not be confused with the North Rhine-Westphalian state prize Manufactum for handicrafts, which has been around for over 50 years. In 2007 the company achieved an annual turnover of around 75 million euros with over 400 employees. On January 1, 2008, the mail order company Heine , a subsidiary of the Otto Group, took over the outstanding shares in Manufactum Hoof & Partner KG for an estimated 20 million euros, after having held a stake in Manufactum since 1998 - most recently with 50 percent. In 2008 Manufactum also ended its book program, which was then published by Hoof as Manuscriptum Verlagbuchhandlung . Manufactum continued to take over individual non-fiction titles from the book program of the right-wing conservative publisher . As a result, this cooperation came under fire from journalists from Der Spiegel and Die Zeit . Due to a request from Zeit online , the then Manufactum managing director Manfred Ritter felt compelled to distance himself from Hoof in terms of content.

In the 2016 financial year, net sales amounted to 92 million euros. As a result of the takeover by Otto as the parent company, the company has been exempting from the obligation to disclose the annual financial statements since 2016 .

The range mainly includes household goods ; it also includes lighting fixtures , furniture, clothing, office supplies , groceries, books and garden accessories and the like. a. The company motto is "They still exist, the good things"; This advertising slogan describes the company's philosophy of selling high-quality and durable goods, some of which are still traditionally manufactured.

The Manufactum product catalog tries to advertise the quality of the products in a linguistically sophisticated and knowledgeable manner, sometimes with restrained humor and laconicity . In the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (2005), Tobias Kniebe rated the catalog texts with a story about the product as decisive for the success of the company. Older catalog editions and the house news, which have meanwhile been published separately, have acquired "collector value" and are traded antiquarian on book portals. Several libraries have holdings of the annual catalogs.

The Manufactum Group also includes Manufactum Bread & Butter with shops in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Munich, Waltrop, Frankfurt / M., Stuttgart and Bremen, good things from monasteries, the magazine with shops in Stuttgart, Bonn and Munich and the Gasthaus Lohnhalle in Waltrop as well as sales companies in Austria , Switzerland and Great Britain .

Manufactum's central warehouse is located in Dortmund-Wambel and is operated by Rhenus Logistik .

Department stores

In addition to the mail order business, Manufactum operates department stores in the old Waltrop mine , in the Alten Hof in Munich , in the Hamburg Chilehaus , in Stuttgart , in the Berlin House Hardenberg , in Düsseldorf , in the Cologne Disch-Haus , in the Opernturm in Frankfurt am Main , in Bremen in the Bremer Bank , in Vienna in the house of the Kontrollbank Am Hof , in Hanover , on the market in Bonn and in Münster in the Münster Arkaden.


literature

  • Thomas Hoof: By the way and on top of that: A selection from the Manufactum house news from 1988–2007 . Manuscriptum, Waltrop 2008, ISBN 978-3-937801-25-4 .
  • Uli Burchardt : Skimmed! Valuable is better - the Manufactum principle . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39664-4 .

Web links

Commons : Manufactum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Manufactum Group. In: Otto Group , accessed on November 14, 2018.
  2. ↑ Imprint. In: manufactum.de , accessed on November 14, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Stephan Randler: Otto Group: This is how business works for the individual mail order companies. In: neuhandeln.de , March 29, 2017.
  4. ^ A b Winand von Petersdorff: Otto buys Manufactum. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , September 16, 2007, p. 42.
  5. ↑ Manufactum State Prize.
  6. ^ Matthias Erlinger: Otto Versand takes over Manufactum. In: TextilWirtschaft , September 17, 2007, (article copy ), original article , (only beginning of article). "Manufactum does not publish any figures, sales in the industry are estimated at around 75 million euros."
  7. ↑ Outside on the right. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Richard Gebhardt: Your enemy is on the left. In: The time . April 14, 2014, accessed April 27, 2020 .
  9. ^ Right publishers - platform for pamphlets. Accessed April 27, 2020 (German).
  10. ↑ Georg Diez , Thomas Hüetlin : Zeitgeist. The bad things still exist. In: Der Spiegel . April 14, 2014, accessed September 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Andreas Öhler: On the Edelholzweg. In: Die Zeit , editor: Christ & Welt. December 1, 2017, accessed September 16, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Sybille Klormann (sk) : Manufactum distances itself because Pirinçci book by company founder. In: time online . April 8, 2014, accessed September 16, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Federal Gazette. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
  14. ^ Review of the "Manufactum goods catalog No. 19" by Wilhelm Ruprecht Frieling in Manufactum by Thomas Hoof. In: Literaturzeitschrift , October 8, 2006.
  15. ↑ Tobias Kniebe : Manufactum. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , 2005, No. 38.
  16. ↑ Thomas Hoof: By the way and on top of that: A selection from the Manufactum house news from 1988–2007 . Manuscriptum, Waltrop 2008, ISBN 978-3-937801-25-4 .
  17. ^ Rainer Seebacher: Quietschfidele dinosaurs. Online shopping and e-commerce are booming. Nevertheless, the printed catalog is popular with consumers and companies. Why actually? A search for clues. ( Memento from October 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Horizont , May 23, 2013, No. 3–4, (PDF; 293 kB).
  18. ↑ Search query: Manufactum catalog. In: ZVAB , accessed on September 16, 2019.
  19. ^ Metasearch in libraries: Manufactum catalog. In: Karlsruher Virtual Catalog ( KVK ), accessed on November 14, 2018.
  20. ↑ Overview of magazine stores. In: magazin.com , accessed on January 31, 2019.
  21. ↑ Delivery and return. In: Manufactum , accessed on February 13, 2020: “The return must be sent to: Manufactum GmbH, c / o Rhenus DE & Co.KG, Juchostr. 500, 44143 Dortmund ".
  22. ↑ Marion Steeger: Shops clean themselves up: Bonn's cult shop opens on Monday - with a clear announcement. April 18, 2020, accessed on April 20, 2020 (German).
  23. ↑ DEAL - Magazine | Real Estate | Investment | Finance. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Branch list: Overview of Manufactum department stores. In: manufactum.de , accessed on November 14, 2018.