Mayersche bookstore
| Mayersche bookstore
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| legal form | KG |
| founding | 1817 |
| Seat |
Aachen , Germany
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| management | Helmut Falter, Ullrich Falter, Hartmut Falter |
| Number of employees | about 1000 |
| sales | 2017: 155 million euros |
| Branch | Bookstore |
| Website | www.mayersche.de |
The Mayersche bookstore is one of Jacob Anton Mayer in 1817 in Aachen based book trade companies . The Mayersche bookstore has been family-owned since then .
history
In 1838 the Mayersche bookstore published all of Molière's works as the first German edition . In 1889 the company was split up into the publishing and book trade divisions . The publishing house remained in the possession of the Mayer family, the book trade was sold to the employee Gustav Schwiening .
After several changes of ownership, the bookstore has been owned by the Falter family since 1950. Michael Falter became the owner after having worked for the company as a bookseller since 1921 .
On January 10, 2019, it was announced that the Mayersche bookstore is merging with the bookstore chain Thalia Bücher . The merger is subject to the approval of the Federal Cartel Office.
Market position
The owner-managed company is one of the largest bookshops in Germany . The annual turnover was 165 million euros in 2013.
At the beginning of 2018 there were 55 Mayersche bookstores in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate . In addition to smaller stores in the district - and small town plies are located in the following example. Cities offices in 1A location : Aachen, Bochum, Herne, Cologne, Monchengladbach, Dusseldorf, Duisburg, Essen and Dortmund.
In the course of the market consolidation and the establishment of branches in the book trade , the Thalia Group and the Weltbild publishing group also caught the eye of the Mayersche bookstore chain through strong expansion with the acquisition of owner-managed bookstores and the establishment of new bookstores and district bookstores .
The group includes Mayersche 027 Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, Mayer'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH, Mayersche Buchhandel Beteiligungs GmbH, and BO B Best Of Books GmbH , which supplies 120 hypermarkets with books. Hartmut Falter is the managing partner.
Locations
Aachen , Bocholt , Bochum (2), Borken , Bottrop , Bünde , Castrop-Rauxel , Dormagen , Dortmund (2), Duisburg , Düsseldorf (4), Eschweiler , Essen (2), Frechen , Gelsenkirchen (2), Gladbeck , Grevenbroich , Gummersbach , Gütersloh , Goch, Hattingen , Herford , Herne , Kamen , Cologne (7), Mönchengladbach (2), Neheim , Neuss , Sankt Augustin , Trier , Troisdorf , Viersen , Wesel , Witten , Wuppertal
Change of location
The crisis in the stationary book trade also troubled Mayer's bookstore. After the rapid expansion, the branch network shrank again. On Saturday, January 19, 2013, a report appeared in the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten, from which it emerged that the Mayersche bookstore is leaving Lüdenscheid after 4 years . The location on Sternplatz and Altenaer Straße was closed in April 2013. The location only partially fulfilled the expectations with which the new branch was opened in 2009. The competition is too big in Lüdenscheid. Further arguments for the closure were the difficult division of space over two floors and the forecast development. All employees have received a commitment to continue their employment at other locations. At the end of September 2012, Mayersche Buchhandlung closed its location in Iserlohn city center . In addition to the branch in Lüdenscheid, two further branches in Hamm and in Bochum's Ruhrpark were closed in 2013. There were also branch closings in Leverkusen and Cologne in 2012. The Mayersche bookshop in Koblenz closed at the end of June 2014. Other branches that had been closed in recent years were in Düren and Remscheid .
Bookstores opened again from autumn 2015. In September / October 2015, following the completion of the modernization of the shopping centers, one branch each was opened in the Ruhrpark Bochum and in the HUMA shopping park Sankt Augustin . After the closure of the Düsseldorf bookstore Stern-Verlag at the end of March 2016, Mayersche opened a third location in Düsseldorf across the street.
Branches were also opened in Cologne, Ahlen , Bergheim , Kerpen , Pulheim and Ratingen . The city with the most branches is Cologne (seven).
Web links
- Official website of the Mayersche Buchhandlung
- History of the Mayersche Buchhandlung
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sales figures , accessed on December 22, 2018
- ↑ Mayersche Buchhandlung (ed.): The catalog autumn / winter 2010. No. 12. P. 118.
- ↑ Book trade working together: Mayersche and Thalia join forces to form Europe's most important book trade company. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Concentration hammer : Thalia and Mayersche go together. In: book report. January 10, 2019, accessed January 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Mayersche.de ( Memento of the original from April 1, 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.
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of January 19, 2013: "Mayersche leaves Lüdenscheid in April"
- ↑ Article from the Bote from January 20, 2013: "Farewell after four years"
- ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of January 20, 2013: "The next vacancy is threatened:" Mayersche "closes"
- ↑ Article from boersenblatt.net
- ↑ Regional chain is growing again. buchreport , July 29, 2015, accessed on April 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Buchhaus Stern leaves - Mayersche moves up. Börsenblatt , February 24, 2016, accessed April 6, 2017 .
