Porta furniture
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | December 1, 1965 |
| Seat | Porta Westfalica |
| management | Birgit Gärtner and Achim Fahrenkamp managing partners, Jürgen Gerdes managing directors of Porta Holding |
| Number of employees | approx. 8000 (2009/2010) |
| sales | EUR 1.30 billion (2019) |
| Branch | Furniture trade |
| Website | www.porta.de |
The porta furniture GmbH & Co. KG is a German company that porta under the name of self-assembly furniture Boss and home in Germany and in Eastern Europe under the name Asko operates furniture stores. The company's headquarters are in the East Westphalian town of Porta Westfalica in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
On December 1st, 1965, Wilhelm Fahrenkamp and Hermann Gärtner founded the company porta Möbel , which today is one of the largest furnishing companies in Germany. At the beginning of January 2019, Jürgen Gerdes took over the position of managing director at porta Holding GmbH & Co. KG. He heads the group together with the managing partners Birgit Gärtner and Achim Fahrenkamp, who are the second generation to manage the company.
structure
Under the holding company , all furnishing markets are grouped as subsidiaries as a single GmbH & Co. KG . While the porta and Hausmann stores are wholly owned by the holding company, self-service furniture Boss in Ludwigshafen, Bielefeld, Braunschweig, Minden, Hanover Airport, Lippstadt, Hameln, Speyer, Viernheim, Kassel, Mönchengladbach and Moers are majority or 50% owned .
Other subsidiaries are responsible for real estate, asset management, gastronomy, investments, advertising, warehousing and logistics.
Branches
Branches in Germany |
In 1976 the first branch was opened in Isernhagen-Altwarmbüchen. In 1993 the first porta furniture store in East Germany was opened in Wiedemar . In 2001, porta Möbel opened in Görlitz as the largest furniture store in Upper Lusatia. The closed porta house in Isernhagen near Hanover was reopened on June 23, 2011.
As of 2017 there are the following porta branches:
- Aachen , since 2006
- Bad Vilbel-Dortelweil , since 2002, formerly a residential paradise
- Berlin-Mahlsdorf , since 2017
- Bielefeld - Hillegossen , since 1990
- Bornheim , since 2007
- Braunschweig , since 1993
- Dessau-Roßlau , since 1996
- Frechen , since 1999
- Görlitz , since 2001
- Gütersloh , since 2011
- Halberstadt , since 1994
- Isernhagen - Altwarmbüchen , from 1976 to 2008, reopened in 2011
- Jena , since 2014
- Cologne-Lind , since 1997
- Laatzen , since 2001, before that Möma furniture store, from 2011 continued as Möbel Hausmann, from 2017 again as porta furniture store.
- Leipzig - Alte Messe , since 2013
- Magdeburg , since 1995
- Neuwied , since 1995
- Porta Westfalica - Barkhausen in the porta market , parent company
- Potsdam , since 2008
- Stendal , since 1994
- Wallenhorst , since 1986
- Wiedemar , since 1993
- Zwickau , since 1997
- Porta Westfalica - Vennebeck - central warehouse
- porta-Küchenwelt Leipzig-Paunsdorf, since December 2017
- porta-Küchenwelt Essen, since January 2019
Former branches that have since been closed were in
- Halle- Künsebeck , from 1978
- Leipzig - Paunsdorf , from 1999, closed since 2013
- Oberhausen , previously Möbel Heck, continued as Finke since 2006
Sponsorship
In 1993 Hermann Gärtner founded the Andreas Gärtner Foundation , Help for people with intellectual disabilities . The foundation is managed on a voluntary basis by porta Möbel. All donations therefore benefit 100% of the people and institutions concerned.
From 2009 to 2011 porta Möbel sponsored the porta marathon . The running event led through the Minden-Lübbecke district .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d The history of the porta group! Furniture
- ↑ History on porta.de , accessed on June 28, 2019
- ↑ Porta in Paunsdorf starts on December 27th, Leipziger Volkszeitung on December 14th, 2017, accessed on May 17th, 2018
- ^ Andreas Gärtner Foundation
- ↑ porta-marathon.de . Homepage of the Porta Marathon. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 '48.7 " N , 8 ° 53' 1.3" E