Marktkauf Holding

Marktkauf Holding GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1971
Seat	Bielefeld - Sennestadt , Germany
Website	marktkauf.de

Marktkauf location in Voslapp , Wilhelmshaven (aerial photo 2012)

The Marktkauf Holding GmbH is one of Germany's largest trading companies and part of the EDEKA group.

The company, based in Bielefeld - Sennestadt , was created on July 1, 2006 through the change of name and conversion of AVA Allgemeine Handelsgesellschaft der Konsumenten AG . It primarily operates large-scale food retailing at around 160 locations in Germany.

history

Foundation and expansion

The AVA goes back to the regional Bielefelder Konsumverein eGmbH founded in 1892 . This dissolved in 1936 due to the effects of the law on consumer cooperatives passed by the NSDAP on May 21, 1933, and was re-established as the Bielefeld consumer cooperative after the end of the war on January 1, 1947 . After several mergers with other consumer associations, the coop Ostwesfalen was created , which merged with coop Lippe to form coop Ostwestfalen-Lippe in 1970 . Coop AG , which was founded in 1974, did not want to be absorbed, so that in 1975 it was renamed General Consumer AG (AVA) and the coop brand was no longer used. Therefore, the AVA was not affected by the so-called coop scandal that was uncovered in 1988 .

The company had already started in 1971 to expand out of the East Westphalian home country. a. therefore the Marktkauf GmbH was founded as a subsidiary. The first Marktkauf hypermarket was opened in 1971 on Friedrich-List-Strasse in Bielefeld , which was awarded to Dr. Oetker Innovation Center had to give way and moved across from the old location to Artur-Ladebeck-Straße. Hypermarkets operated under the name dixi , groceries under the name allfrisch .

In the course of expansion, AVA bought the optics chain from Franz-Josef Krane, which was founded in 1968, and has been investing beyond neighboring countries since 2003. The subsidiary Marktkauf Rus operated a hypermarket and a hardware store in Moscow . However, the course of business in recent years, especially at the Marktkauf DIY stores, was characterized by high losses following the purchase of deficit DIY stores from the Hauser, Götzen and Selbstbau groups.

The cooperation with the Edeka group began in 1983, initially only in purchasing, later it developed into a complete integration into the Edeka group. In 1992, Edeka took over 33% of the capital of the listed AVA Allgemeine Handelsgesellschaft der Consumer AG and increased its stake in the following years until the last free shareholders were forced out by excluding minority shareholders in 2005 .

In 1993, 59 percent of the Nanz Group was taken over. In 1998 it was then passed on to Edeka Südwest .

On July 1, 2006, all parts of the company, both the holding company and the subsidiaries, were renamed from AVA to Marktkauf . The AVA Aktiengesellschaft was converted into the Marktkauf Holding GmbH .

Examples of branches
Cheeky
Elmshorn
Speyer

Redevelopment

The labor director and restructuring engineer Stephan Schelo (formerly head of Spar -Handels AG in Hamburg), who is responsible for Marktkauf on the Edeka board , planned to cut 1,000 full-time positions at Marktkauf in 2006, according to press reports. For 2006 the board of directors expected a loss of up to 50 million euros and for the coming year a deficit of 117 million euros. The Edeka Group, to which Marktkauf belongs, wanted to concentrate entirely on the food and hypermarket segment. That is why the optics chain and hardware stores should be sold.

In August 2006, the optician chain Krane, at that time the third largest optician in Germany with 90 branches and 600 employees, was sold by Marktkauf to the Dutch holding company HAL Investments , which already owned Apollo-Optik with 480 specialist shops. The optics retail group Pearle Europe, to which HAL Investments belongs, outperformed the previous industry leader Fielmann , who had shown no interest in a purchase.

The hypermarket in Moscow was sold to the Metro Group in December 2006 . The associated hardware store in Moscow went to the French hardware store chain Castorama .

On May 16, 2007 it was announced that the Rewe Group will take over 133 of the 150 DIY megastores with gardeners as of June 2007. They will be affiliated to the Rewe subsidiary Toom Baumarkt . Of the 150 DIY stores in 2006, five were closed in February 2007; the rest of the Edeka stores are expected to have closed by June 2007. The 133 DIY stores had a turnover in 2006 of 840 million euros with around 4900 employees. According to industry insiders, Rewe will receive a subsidy of around 120 to 150 million euros from its competitor Edeka for the takeover of DIY stores, which have been in deficit for years. The Rewe Group won a bidding competition in which numerous private equity investors also took part.

On June 1, 2007, it became known that after the separation from the hardware stores, the remaining 186 Marktkauf hypermarkets would be divided among the regional Edeka companies. In addition, individual Marktkauf hypermarkets are being converted into E-Centers , an Edeka sales line. This has already happened with the Marktkauf hypermarket in Herford , in Werre-Park in Bad Oeynhausen , in Ilsede (in the Peine district ), in the Filder shopping center in Leinfelden and the branch in Peine . The branch in the Dollart Center Emden was handed over in 2008 by Edeka to the regional company multi from Leer .

The renovation will be accompanied by further closings. After individual stores closed in 2007, one of the three logistics locations of Marktkauf ( Laichingen on the Swabian Alb) will be closed in March 2008 , after it had been announced at the end of May 2007 that it would be expanded into a non-food central warehouse.

The most advanced is the privatization under the brand Marktkauf in the EDEKA region Rhine-Ruhr in which 10 original government stores were privatized and 2 more were opened as private businesses. There are still 22 director's stores there, including 3 former RATIO stores that were taken over in 2011.

Corporate structure

Former Marktkauf store in Moscow Kotelniki

Sales lines

In April 2008 the Marktkauf Group operated 186 Marktkauf hypermarkets and hypermarkets in Germany. The Marktkauf department stores were handed over to the seven Edeka regional companies by March 2008. They are supposed to transfer these to independent retailers.

logistics

Until it was closed, the logistics subsidiary Marktkauf Logistik (previously AVA-Logistik ) operated three logistics centers in Bielefeld-Sennestadt , Zarrentin and Laichingen .

Manufacturing companies

The FG Frischwaren with operations in Georgsmarienhütte , Mockritz and Laichingen supplied the Marktkauf branches with meat and sausage products, fish and delicatessen .

Other subsidiaries

The data processing was done by Marktkauf IT Informationstechnologie (previously AVA Informationstechnologie ). The Marktkauf subsidiary Center Entwicklungs- und Verwaltungs-GmbH (CEV) develops and manages shopping centers.