Stern-Verlag (Düsseldorf)
Buchhaus Stern publishing house | |
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legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
founding | 1900 |
resolution | March 31, 2016 |
Seat | Dusseldorf , Germany |
management | Klaus Janssen |
Number of employees | last 113 |
sales | 2001: 70 million euros |
Branch | Bookstore |
Website | www.buchsv.de |
The Stern-Verlag was one of Ferdinand Studt in 1900 in Dusseldorf based book trade business , there has since been continuously in family ownership . On March 31, 2016, Klaus Janssen, the founder's grandson, closed “one of the largest bookshops in Europe”. The reasons were economic considerations in a market that had become more difficult in general and locally due to conversion , as well as the sole proprietor's age.
history
Stern-Verlag was founded in Düsseldorf in 1900. In 1927 the company moved from Graf-Adolf-Platz to its final location at Friedrichstrasse 26. During the Second World War , the office building was bombed out and completely destroyed. The building was rebuilt from 1948 to 1954.
Decades of expansion and expansion followed in the years 1961 to 2001. After the customer parking spaces were relocated to the opposite side of Talstrasse, which was parallel to Friedrichstrasse, the shop extended through the entire block of houses, sometimes over several floors, to Talstrasse. For years the largest bookstore in Germany was operated, with a total area of up to 8,000 m², of which 7,000 m² was sales area. There was also a branch at the University of Düsseldorf, which was also closed in 2016. In 2001 the estimated turnover was 70 million euros. In 2004 Horst Janssen died, after which his brother Klaus Janssen continued to run the company on his own. Until 2005 the company was called Stern-Verlag Janssen & Co. , from October 14, 2005 Stern-Verlag e. K. On September 15, 2014 it was renamed again, in Buchhaus Stern-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG .
After years of falling sales, the then 80-year-old Klaus Janssen announced in December 2015 that the bookstore would be closing at the end of March 2016.
On March 31, 2016, all business areas - including the branch at the University of Düsseldorf and the mail order business - were given up and the remaining 113 employees were compensated for the loss of their jobs with an extensive social plan . The Stern publishing house was sold to Motel One . The conversion into a hotel is planned for the business premises. As of March 2018 The customers of the mail order and library business of Stern-Verlag were taken over in 2016 by the chain Mayersche Buchhandlung , who founded the subsidiary Mayersche B2B for this purpose. A new branch of the Mayersche Buchhandlung with a sales area of 400 m², which opened in spring 2016, moved into the opposite side of the Friedrichstrasse. In the spring of 2018, the specialist book retail chain Lehmanns Media moved to the premises on the premises of the University of Düsseldorf .
Web links
- buchsv.de , website of the book house Stern-Verlag
- Company history of the book house Stern-Verlag
- Angelika Unger: Buchhaus Stern-Verlag - Why a customer wrote a love letter to a bookstore. 19th February 2016
- Jürgen Heimann: Sternverlag: An antiquarian bookshop is being auctioned , Westdeutsche Zeitung website. April 22, 2016.
supporting documents
- ↑ a b Description on the Facebook company page
- ↑ a b Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels: End of a Düsseldorf institution, December 21, 2016, accessed on April 10, 2016
- ↑ Stern-Verlag in Düsseldorf: Ten and a half hours farewell , rp-online.de , April 1, 2016
- ↑ a b sales figures
- ↑ a b c d specialist book trade: Düsseldorf is getting a campus bookstore again , book report
- ↑ Book report: The lights go out in Stern-Verlag at the end of March. ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. December 21, 2015.
- ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Crisis of the bookshops. January 14, 2016
- ↑ Company history on buchsv.de
- ↑ Die Welt: The slow death of German bookshops, edition of March 22, 2016, accessed on April 10, 2016
- ↑ Stadtmitte: Confusion about reduction at Stern-Verlag , nrz.de, August 15, 2014
- ↑ company history , buchhaus-sternverlag.de (not Available) Web Archive from May 19, 2016 [1]
- ↑ Düsseldorf: Confusion about Stern-Verlag , rp-online.de, August 15, 2014
- ^ Stern - Verlag Janssen & Co. , online-handelsregister.de, accessed on December 21, 2017
- ↑ Buchhaus Stern-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG , online-handelsregister.de, accessed on December 21, 2017
- ↑ Gross sales from Stern-Verlag in the years 2004 to 2014 (in million euros) on handelsdaten.de
- ↑ The end of the Stern publishing house horrified many Düsseldorfers , wz.de , December 20, 2015
- ↑ Stern-Verlag closes at the end of March 2016 - RP-Online from December 19, 2015
- ↑ Motel One - Hotel moves to Stern-Verlag Report of the daily newspaper Rheinische Post on May 11, 2017, accessed on May 13, 2017
- ^ Düsseldorf: Motel One buys Sternverlag building , August 8, 2017
- ↑ Welcome to Bad Düsseldorf , wz.de, March 8, 2018
- ^ Düsseldorf: Mayersche opened on Friedrichstrasse , rp-online.de, February 24, 2016