Roeckl (company)
| ROECKL Gloves & Accessories GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1839 |
| Seat | Munich |
| management | Annette Roeckl (managing director) |
| Number of employees | 150 (as of 2017) |
| sales | 17.9 million euros (5/2015–4/2016) |
| Branch | Trading in gloves, leather bags, silk scarves and accessories |
| Website | www.roeckl.com |
Roeckl has been a manufacturer of gloves and accessories based in Munich since 1839 . In 2007 the company was the market leader for high-quality leather gloves in Germany and Austria with annual sales of 20 million euros and around 230 employees.
history
The company was founded in 1839 by the glove maker Jakob Roeckl. He initially ran a shop with handicraft production in Munich's Kaufingerstraße 19. This was followed by a tannery and a dye works, as well as the development of a new, patented tanning process. With his focus on the "upper class" Roeckl achieved the appointment to the Royal Bavarian Court Supplier and counted King Ludwig II and Empress Sissi among his customers. The factory building built by Christian, Jakob Roeckl's son, south of Munich city center in 1870 on today's Roecklplatz in the Dreimühlenviertel is still the company's headquarters. In addition, the first sales branches followed in Berlin, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Cologne and Bremen at this time. In 1890 Heinrich Roeckl took over the management of the company at the age of 24 after the early death of his father. The company expanded through the establishment of further branches and exported to America. During the Nazi era, the company took part in the exploitation of forced laborers under Heinrich Roeckl, under whose leadership the company manufactured gas masks for use in the war.
After the destruction in the war, leather and glove production and the branch network were rebuilt in 1948 under the management of his son Heinrich Franz Roeckl. When Stefan Roeckl took over management of the company, the headquarters at Roecklplatz were rebuilt in 1966; an expansion of the store range to include fashion accessories such as scarves also took place at this time. In 1972 the development of a new glove cut followed, the "patented cut" as a prelude to the development of the Roeckl sports gloves. The traditional way of working, originally from France, was panel cut. The glove-making profession has almost died out in Germany. The last German master glove maker still employed by Roeckl is Olaf Gebhard in 2007.
In 1992 the Romanian production facility Roeckl Romania was founded. The complete relocation of production from Bavaria to Southeast Europe was one of the most critical moments in the company's history. In 2003, Annette Roeckl, the sixth generation, took over the sole management of Roeckl Gloves and Accessories GmbH & Co. KG, after brother Stefan Roeckl junior agreed to take over the sports division in 2000. In the same year, the sports gloves product area was spun off as Roeckl Sports (Roeckl Sporthandschuhe GmbH & Co. KG) under the management of Stefan Roeckl. Annette Roeckl expanded the accessories collection and founded her own bag production facility in Sebeş, Romania , in 2009 . In 2009, additional Roeckl partner stores were opened in Amsterdam and Warsaw, as well as four shop-in-shop sales areas near Karstadt in Munich, Hamburg, Berlin and Cologne. In 2010 Roeckl had 23 branches of its own and a worldwide sales presence.
On March 24, 2017, the company filed for bankruptcy under self-administration . Eight out of 19 stores in Germany had to close. The bankruptcy petition was withdrawn in May 2017.
In 2019 Roeckl celebrated its 180th anniversary.
Family burial site
The family tomb Röckl is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 34 - Series 1 - Place 29/30) Location .
Roeckl fountain
In 1908, Privy Councilor Heinrich Roeckl donated a fountain to beautify the company's location in Munich. In 1915 this location was renamed Roecklplatz.
Roeckl Castle
The company building, built by Christian Roeckl in 1871, was built according to plans by Gabriel von Seidl at the gates of Munich. It was popularly called "Roeckl Castle". From around 50 first-generation employees, the number of employees grew to over 1,000 in the second generation.
collection
The product range includes leather gloves and a cloth collection consisting of fine silks and cashmere blends. In the respective summer collections, hats and special summer knits such as stick sets or hairbands complete the product range. There are knitted accessories for winter. Roeckl Sports offers sports gloves for cycling and equestrian sports, cross-country skiing, biathlon, alpine skiing, multisport / outdoor and Nordic walking.
On the occasion of the cooperation project with the movie " Perfume - The Story of a Murderer " in 2006, a special range of gloves was set up. A glove and cloth collection called “Go for Goal” was designed for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. In 2010 Roeckl cooperated with the magazine Madame and added gauntlets to every February issue that was subscribed to.
literature
- The most beautiful gift . Editorial advertisement in the magazine Die Woche October 15, 1904 ( scan of the page ).
- Marita Krauss : The royal Bavarian purveyors to the court . Volk Verlag, Munich 2008, on Roeckl pp. 96–110. ISBN 978-3-937200-27-9 .
- Marita Krauss: "The last real patrician of Munich" - Privy Kommerzienrat Konsul Heinrich Roeckl, court glove manufacturer, in: Marita Krauss (Ed.) : The Bavarian Kommerzienräte - A German business elite from 1880 to 1928, Volk Verlag, Munich 2016, p. 319– 327. ISBN 978-3-86222-216-2
- Annette Roeckl: 180 Years of Roeckl Munich 1839 , illustrated anniversary publication, 48 pages, Munich, [2019]
Individual evidence
- ↑ Creditreform, German and Austrian Financial Profiles - Roeckl Gloves and Accessories GmbH & Co. KG , January 4, 2018, accessed on February 1, 2018 (via Nexis).
- ↑ a b Bisnode, Bisnode company profiles - Roeckl Gloves & Accessories GmbH & Co. KG , December 13, 2017, accessed on February 1, 2018 (via Nexis).
- ↑ Roeckl Hosen & Accessoires GmbH & Co. KG, annual financial statements for the business year from May 1, 2015 to April 30 , 2016, November 4, 2016 (via bundesanzeiger.de).
- ^ The brave little tailors , brand eins, issue 06/2007
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: The traditional Munich company Roeckl is insolvent
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung on the weekend, 15./16./17. April 2017, p. 59.
- ↑ Pia Ratzesberger, Business is picking up again , Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich district edition ), November 18, 2017, p. R3.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 13.9 ″ N , 11 ° 33 ′ 41.2 ″ E