Rieker
| Rieker Holding AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1874 |
| Seat | Thayngen , Switzerland |
| management | Markus Rapp ( CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | approx. 20,000 |
| Branch | Shoes |
| Website | www.rieker.com |
The Rieker Shoes , based in Switzerland Thayngen is the holding company of the eponymous shoe brand that was originally founded in Tuttlingen (Baden-Württemberg).
The group of companies has several production facilities in five countries, three design offices and 16 distribution centers and employs around 20,000 people worldwide. It supplies around 8,000 independent retailers, mainly in Europe, with shoes and accessories. The corporate group has been based in Switzerland since the early 1970s .
Various locations around the world are responsible for collection, development, sales and logistics.
history
In 1874, the Rieker company was founded as the first shoe factory in Tuttlingen by Heinrich Rieker and Carl Seitz under the name Rieker & Seitz . Seitz left the company in 1901. Heinrich Rieker died in 1905. The management of the company was then taken over by his three sons Ernst, Heinrich and Karl Rieker. In 1907 the company name was changed to Rieker & Co.
During the National Socialist era, Rieker was one of the German shoe companies that had their products tested by concentration camp inmates in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . The prisoners in the so-called shoe runner detachment had to cover a 700-meter-long test route with different surfaces several times up to 40 kilometers. The endurance runs were de facto death marches , as the runners were shot when they collapsed due to fatigue .
In 1969, the number of employees in Germany reached its peak with around 2,000 employees. In the same year the management of the company was handed over to the three cousins Kurt, Roland and Justus Rieker, who divided the company into three independent areas. Justus Rieker took over the production of ski boots - this company was later dissolved. Roland Rieker took over the production of children's and youth shoes in Donaueschingen , which is known today under the name Ricosta . Kurt Rieker took over the production of the sporty women's and men's shoes in Tuttlingen .
In the early 1970s, a new company headquarters was established in Switzerland and production expanded internationally.
In 1975 the management passed into the hands of Kurt Rieker's son Markus. In the same year, the first foreign production company was founded in Tunisia . Further production facilities were opened in Slovakia , Portugal , Romania , Morocco , Moldova and Vietnam .
The production facilities in Portugal and Moldova have now been closed again.
At the beginning of 2002, the Rieker Group expanded its business area with the acquisition of Schuh-Union , which brings companies such as Servas , Remonte and Dorndorf together under one roof. Especially with Remonte, the long-standing family tradition in the shoe trade is linked.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Entry by Rieker Holding AG. (No longer available online.) In: Commercial Register of the Canton of Schaffhausen. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011 ; Retrieved July 13, 2011 . 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.
- ↑ a b c Rieker the company on rieker.net, accessed on March 5, 2013.
- ↑ a b The company - fashion by rieker. In: www.rieker.com. Retrieved June 24, 2016 .
- ↑ a b The Rieker Story. (No longer available online.) In: www.riekershoes-friaryshoes.com. Archived from the original on April 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 24, 2016 . 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.
- ^ Anne-Sophie Lang: Experiments in the concentration camp: blood in the shoe. November 13, 2014, accessed August 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Rieker-Schuh company profile. In: www.wer-zu-wem.de. Retrieved June 24, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Active against child labor - Rieker. Retrieved June 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Schuh Union now entirely at Rieker. July 2, 2002, accessed June 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Rieker buys Schuh-Union. Retrieved June 24, 2016 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 44 '40 " N , 8 ° 42' 20.4" E ; CH1903: six hundred and ninety-five thousand and twenty-six / 288974