Peek & Cloppenburg (Düsseldorf)

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Peek & Cloppenburg KG, Düsseldorf

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legal form Limited partnership
founding 1901
Seat Dusseldorf , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Oliver Bach, Horst Clemens, Catharina Cloppenburg, Harro Uwe Cloppenburg , Patrick Cloppenburg.
Number of employees approx.17,500 in Germany (December 2015)
sales EUR 2.1 billion (2015)
Branch textiles
Website www.peek-cloppenburg.de

Peek & Cloppenburg , based in Dusseldorf is a corporation founded in 1901 textiles - retail - chain of family ownership.

history

Foundation in the Netherlands

Promissory note for 2,400 marks from Peek & Cloppenburg GmbH from January 1, 1915

The original company was founded in 1869 by the merchants Johann Theodor Peek (* 1845 in Grönheim ) and Heinrich Anton Cloppenburg (* April 11, 1844 in Altenoythe ), who were born in what is now the district of Cloppenburg , as a Dutch textile shop in Rotterdam. For further development, the young entrepreneurs were able to fall back on relatives and friends, some of whom brought them from their Oldenburg homeland and some of whom they met in Holland. Barely 20 years after the trading house was founded in Rotterdam, there were already branches in Amsterdam , The Hague , Breda , Leeuwarden , Groningen , Haarlem , Leiden and Utrecht .

Foundation in Germany

In March 1901 the company Peek & Cloppenburg was founded in Düsseldorf. In the same year, the first store opened in Düsseldorf at Schadowstrasse 31-33 . For the company's 100th birthday, a new building designed by the New York architect Richard Meier with a sales area of ​​around 14,200 square meters was opened on this property . Like all buildings by Richard Meier, this house also has a white facade.

A short time later, also in 1901, James Cloppenburg , the son of Heinrich Cloppenburg and son-in-law of Johann Theodor Peek, opened the second German store in Berlin on Gertraudenstrasse , at the corner of Roßstrasse 26-27. This was initially independent, the Peek family was not involved. Later (1911 at the latest) he brought the Berlin house into his father's company and took over the management of the entire company.

Already with the first two stores, Peek & Cloppenburg introduced the uniform size system in men's clothing as a novelty .

Spin-off from P & C Nord

James Cloppenburg's brother Anton Cloppenburg opened a store in Hamburg in 1911 . This was also founded independently. However, the companies never merged, and Peek & Cloppenburg (Hamburg) remained independent. From 1958, the Hamburg company also built up a branch network, initially only in Northern Germany. This resulted in two independent companies with their current headquarters in Hamburg and Düsseldorf.

Division of the sales area

There are agreements between the two companies for the branch locations in Germany:

  • P&C Nord is active in the northern federal states, i.e. in Hamburg, Bremen, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Also in the Münsterland (Münster, Bielefeld, Paderborn), in northern Hesse (Kassel) and in the south of Saxony (Dresden, Chemnitz).
  • Peek & Cloppenburg KG Düsseldorf is active in North Rhine-Westphalia (except Münsterland), Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Central and South Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Thuringia, Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt and in the north of Saxony (Leipzig).

Abroad, the two companies appear as competitors under different names; after various legal disputes, they are critical of each other.

Another story from P&C West

Weltstadthaus of Peek & Cloppenburg KG Düsseldorf in Cologne

After the death of the company founder James Cloppenburg , his son James Cloppenburg jr took over in 1926 . took over the management of the company and expanded the range to include women's clothing in 1936. This made P&C Düsseldorf the first clothing store for the whole family. In the same year, the third German branch opened in Frankfurt , just a year later the fourth in Essen. During the Second World War , all branches of the chain were destroyed. From 1952, however, another expansion began, which resulted in the construction and modernization of numerous houses. In 1986 James Cloppenburg Jr., who had run the company for 60 years, died. His son Harro Uwe Cloppenburg took over the management of the company, which he was to hold until 2019. Under him, starting in 1988 with the construction of the Frankfurt House, great importance was attached to the architecture of the new buildings and the aim was to build "cosmopolitan architecture". Under Harro Uwe Cloppenburg, the company experienced increased influence on the business policy of Peek & Cloppenburg in the Netherlands and Belgium in 1994 and continued expansion with the record year 1998, in which 16 new houses were opened. At the end of 2000, 65 houses in Germany and eight houses in other European countries belonged to P & C West. Expansion into Eastern Europe followed in the early 2000s, which in 2008 led to the establishment of Peek & Cloppenburg KG, Vienna, a headquarters for Austria and Eastern Europe. After joining the management of Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf on January 1, 2010, Patrick Cloppenburg took over many of his tasks after his father's retirement from active business in 2019, but explicitly did not assume the title of CEO.

distribution

Weltstadthaus of Peek & Cloppenburg KG Düsseldorf in Essen (1961)

Peek & Cloppenburg is an international brand with sales outlets in 15 European countries. These are managed by independent companies via Peek & Cloppenburg Holding BV in Roermond , the Netherlands . The company of the same name Peek & Cloppenburg (Hamburg) , on the other hand, acts independently of this.

Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf

Peek & Cloppenburg KG Düsseldorf operates 67 locations in Germany (mainly in the Rhineland, in southern Germany as well as in Berlin and Leipzig), two in Belgium, three in the Netherlands and one in Switzerland.

Peek & Cloppenburg Vienna

At Kärntner Strasse 29 in Vienna

Peek & Cloppenburg KG Vienna has another 47 sales locations in Austria, Poland, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia and Lithuania.

Anson's mansion

P&C Düsseldorf also includes Anson's Herrenhaus  KG, based in Düsseldorf, without any direct legal connection , which exclusively sells men's fashion. Since January 1, 2010, the company has been intensifying the use of central functions at Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf. The independent branding of Anson's is to be retained.

Unauthorized price fixing practices

In 2017, the Federal Cartel Office imposed a fine of EUR 10.9 million on Peek & Cloppenburg (Düsseldorf) and the clothing manufacturer Wellensteyn for vertical price fixing practices in the period from 2008 to 2013 . The investigations, which began in 2013, became public in 2015 when the Federal Cartel Office had the offices of the management of Peek & Cloppenburg in Düsseldorf searched.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the company
  2. ↑ DPA: Peek & Cloppenburg focuses on expansion. In: ksta.de , May 28, 2018. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b You are on the family tree of Roeland BERKEMEIJER , accessed on July 31, 2014.
  4. ↑ The history of the Peek restaurant in Grönheim
  5. ^ Cloppenburg, Hinrich Anton Adolph at the Oldenburg Society for Family Studies
  6. ↑ a b c Peek & Cloppenburg KG History at www.fundinguniverse.com
  7. ↑ Peek & Cloppenburg branches. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Manager-Magazin created a map of this division in 2007 : Map of the division of the sales area in Germany , Manager-Magazin 2007.
  9. ↑ P&C Düsseldorf is expanding its purchasing department.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 31, 2014.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.textilwirtschaft.de  
  10. ↑ Harro Uwe Cloppenburg resigns at P&C. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Peek & Cloppenburg Holding BV on openkvk.nl, accessed on December 12, 2018
  12. ↑ http://www.fashionid.de/standorte/
  13. ↑ Peek & Cloppenburg press review  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.peek-cloppenburg.de  
  14. ↑ Bundeskartellamt imposes fines for price fixing for clothing totaling around 10.9 million euros. Press release of the Federal Cartel Office of July 25, 2017. Accessed October 10, 2017.
  15. ↑ Wellensteyn and P&C: Cartel Office imposes millions in fines on textile companies. In: Handelsblatt , July 25, 2017. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
  16. ↑ Cartel Office imposes heavy penalties: Price agreements cost P&C and Wellensteyn millions in Manager Magazin , July 25, 2017. Accessed October 10, 2017.
  17. ↑ Cartel office suspects collusion: raid at Peek & Cloppenburg in Düsseldorf. In: Rheinische Post , June 25, 2015. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
  18. ^ Peek & Cloppenburg: Cartel Office investigates the textile industry. In: Handelsblatt , June 25, 2015. Accessed October 10, 2017.

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