Palmers

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Palmers Textil AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1914
Seat Vienna
management Matvei Hutman, Tino Wieser, Luca Wieser
Number of employees 722 (2016)
549 of them in Austria, 144 in Germany and 29 in Croatia
Branch Fashion
Website www.palmers.at ,

The Palmers Textil AG , known as PALMERS , is Austria's largest textile group.

organization

The Palmer range includes lingerie, swimwear, nightwear, loungewear, hosiery and fashionable styles for today's man. The division for younger customers is p2 bodywear . In public spaces that fall within Austria Posters and posters of female and male underwear models on.

There are almost 300 locations, 150 of which are own branches in Austria, Germany and Croatia as well as around 150 franchise partners nationally and internationally. Palmers has a total of over 700 employees.

history

The company was founded in early 1915 by Ludwig Palmers (1868–1943) under the company name “Restenkönig” in Innsbruck . Palmers - born as Ludwig Perlhefter - converted to the Catholic faith in 1899 and called himself Ludwig Palmers from 1904. Before that he worked in the leather trade, the "leftover king" was his first lingerie shop.

By 1916 branches were opened in Vienna, Linz and then in Salzburg. The Palmers & Sons company was founded on January 1, 1926, and Ludwig Palmer's shareholders were his sons Theodor, Hans Joachim, Walter and Harry Palmers, who were already working in the company.

In 1936, the first franchisee- run Palmers outlet was opened. After Austria was "annexed" to Nazi Germany, Ludwig Palmers was considered a Jew under Nazi law, and his sons were half-Jews. The company was transferred to non-Jewish family members, several sons fled abroad, Walter Palmer (1903–1983) signed up for service in an armaments company in 1943. His father Ludwig died in a hospital in Dresden in 1943 under circumstances that were not entirely clear. After the Second World War , expansion began throughout Austria, initially with 45 stores. Under the management of Walter Palmers, the family business was expanded considerably and a nationwide branch network was set up in Austria.

In 1977 Walter Palmers was kidnapped. The kidnapping was a June 2nd Movement fundraising campaign carried out by Austrian students. Walter Palmers was released after paying a ransom of 30.5 million schillings (2.2 million euros ), and two of the terrorists were arrested in Chiasso while fleeing across the Swiss border to Italy . The apartment rented by the kidnappers in Vienna was discovered on April 20, 1978.

Rudolf Humer took over the company management from Walter Palmers in 1979. Under Humer's leadership, the company expanded rapidly in the 1980s and 1990s, including abroad. In 2012 the company was represented at 300 locations in 15 European countries.

After differences of opinion between the owners and the board of directors, restructuring measures led to a significant downsizing of the company and Rudolf Humer left the board of directors in 2003.

In autumn 2004, Palmers Textil AG was largely sold to the investors Quadriga Capital and Lead Equities . The real estate holdings of the Palmers Group (bundled in Palmers AG) were taken over from the shareholders by Christian Palmers.

In April 2006 the Vorarlberg underwear manufacturer Huber Tricot took over the Gazelle sales outlets in Austria from Palmers and converted them into Huber shops.

The Eumig Palmers high-rise in Wiener Neudorf, the company's headquarters from 1982 to 2015

The company headquarters had been in Wiener Neudorf since 1982 and was partially relocated to the Ares Tower in Vienna in June 2014 .

The Wieser and Hutman families acquired 100 percent of the company on December 15, 2015 with the support of an Austrian investor group. At the beginning of October 2018, the previous CEO Marc Wieser withdrew from operational business. The management now consists of Messrs. Matvei Hutman, Tino Wieser and Luca Wieser.

literature

Awards

  • since 1979 bearer of the Austrian national coat of arms
  • 2009 Vienna Fashion Award in the Tribute to Fashion and Lifestyle category
  • 2013 Golden advertising drum for the best commercial of 2013
  • 2014 Franchise Award as the best franchisor of the year
  • Awarded the family-friendly employer quality mark in 2014
  • 2015 Superbrand 2015-2016 Award and winner in the category Laundry

Web links

Commons : Palmers  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Facts & Figures (accessed December 19, 2017)
  2. ↑ Remnants King . In: daily mail . January 13, 1916, p. 10 ( ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online [accessed on May 25, 2020]; advertisement by the company).
  3. ↑ See Hanno Loewy , Die diskrete Familie Palmers, in: Peter Melichar and Nikolaus Hagen (eds.), The Riccabona case . A family history between acceptance and threat in the 20th century ( vorarlberg museum Schriften 22), Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2017, pp. 81–84.
  4. ↑ Entry in the commercial register . In: Wiener Zeitung . February 4, 1926, p. 15 ( ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online [accessed on May 25, 2020] advertisement of the company).
  5. ↑ See Hanno Loewy , Die diskrete Familie Palmers, p. 87.
  6. ↑ See Hanno Loewy , Die diskrete Familie Palmers, p. 91 f.
  7. ↑ See Hanno Loewy , Die diskrete Familie Palmers, p. 82.
  8. ↑ Middle right: «Terrorist apartment discovered» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 22, 1978, p. 5 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  9. ↑ Company website
  10. ↑ http://noe.orf.at/news/stories/2641834/ Palmers relocates headquarters to Vienna, orf.at April 14, 2014, accessed October 4, 2015.
  11. ↑ http://www.noen.at/nachrichten/lokales/aktuell/moedling/Palmers-zieh-aus;art2664,529533 Palmers moves out, noen.at, April 16, 2014, accessed October 4, 2015.
  12. ↑ Laundry company Palmers is Austrian again on standard.at from December 16, 2015
  13. ↑ Team made up of Matvei Hutman, Tino Wieser and Luca Wieser now runs Palmers Textil AG . In: OTS.at . ( ots.at [accessed October 18, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Marc Wieser resigned as CEO of Palmers . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed October 18, 2018]).