Stüssgen
| Cornelius Stüssgen AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1897 |
| resolution | September 25, 2006 |
| Reason for dissolution | Conversion into Rewe stores |
| Seat | Cologne |
| Branch | Grocery sales |
Stüssgen was a supermarket chain in the Rhineland . It was taken over by the Rewe Group in the 1980s and finally integrated into the Rewe brand by 2006.
history
The name of the chain goes back to the grocer Cornelius Stüssgen (1877–1956). In 1897 he founded the Kölner Konsumanstalt on Venloer Straße in Cologne-Ehrenfeld , which initially consisted of a 40 square meter shop. For then and even for today's conditions, the shop offered some special features: It was run by two women, the owner's mother and aunt, and was open from 4 a.m. to 11 p.m. - including Sundays and public holidays.
Stüssgen later opened further branches in the Rhineland: in 1904 he owned 12 shops under the name Rheinisches Kaufhaus für Lebensmittel , in 1933 he had 145. After the Second World War he rebuilt the shops that had been destroyed and introduced self-service. In this context he is considered to be the inventor of prepackaged foods, which until then had been individually counted and weighed from bags, boxes or barrels. The own brand is also said to be traced back to Cornelius Stüssgen, who had the company's products labeled “Cornelia”.
In 1984 Rewe took over a little more than half of the Stüssgen branches, and finally the rest in 1989. The new slogan was “Stüssgen. The freshness. "
In 2005, most of the Stüssgen branches were converted to the minimal concept and modernized in the process. After that there were Stüssgen markets only in a few Cologne and Bonn districts.
As part of the new strategic orientation of the Rewe Group, the last remaining Stüssgen branches became Rewe branches together with the Minimal branches on September 25, 2006. The existence of Stüssgen ended on that day.
literature
- Modern food retailing - Cornelius Stüssgen, Stolberger Straße. In: Max-Leo Schwering: Cologne. Braunsfeld - Melaten (Publications of the Cologne City Museum Volume 6, edited by Werner Schäfke), with contributions by Wolfram Hagspiel, Ulrich S. Soénius and Matthias von der Bank, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-927396-93-1 , p. 459– 462