Wöltje
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1912 |
| Seat | Oldenburg |
| management | Frank Döge, Daniel Schimpf |
| Number of employees | 15 (2020) |
| sales | > 2.3 million euros (2019) |
| Branch | retail trade |
| Website | www.woeltje.de |
The Wöltje GmbH & Co. KG is a company based in Oldenburg ( Lower Saxony ), which takes its main revenue from the sales of cameras and accessories, CEWE - photo books achieved and photographic works. It is one of the oldest specialist shops in Oldenburg. The company has two sales branches and a photo studio about 15 employees and is in the consolidated financial statements of Co. KGaA CEWE Stiftung & included
history
In 1912 August Friedrich Carl Wöltje and his wife Helene founded his “Photographic Institute” at Haarenstrasse 33. Typical portraits and family photos were taken in this photo studio until the beginning of the First World War . In 1914 Carl Wöltje was employed as a war photographer and his wife continued the photo studio alone.
In 1916 Wöltje bought the house at Heiligengeiststrasse 6 and moved the photo studio and his private residence to this house.
In 1926 a photo shop was attached to the photo studio. After the currency reform in 1948 , the son-in-law Heinz Neumüller joined the company and developed it into an internationally known company in the photo industry.
In 1957 the company was represented by Neumüller as a founding member of the “Technical School of the German Photo and Cinema Trade” in Kiel .
In Germany, the Wöltje Group had around 300 branches in the 1980s, and these were called IVEMA or FOTOPOINT. The branches were mostly represented in hypermarkets or city centers.
With the opening of the first large Telepoint specialty store for TV, hi-fi, video, computers, sound carriers, large electronics, small electronics, car radio and telecommunications in Oldenburg in 1989 on a total of 2,300 m², Wöltje began operating specialist stores. At the end of 1998 the Bremerhaven company Grohbrügge with 75 retail stores was taken over. The Wöltje Group thus grew to around 400 sales branches.
In 1961, Heinz Neumüller founded his own laboratory. From this, the CEWE Foundation & Co. KGaA developed over time . The company name CEWE was formed from the initials of his father-in-law Carl Wöltje (CW)
Thanks to its large network of branches, Wöltje was able to buy goods such as films, cameras, etc. at low prices and opened its own wholesale business. For the heyday of analog photography, for example B. sells over 30 million 35mm films a year to drugstores, grocery chains and photo retailers.
The market situation changed with the beginning of the digitalization of camera technology. In 2006 the company was split up, the wholesale, Telepoint and the Fotopoint / Grohbrügge branches were sold. Only the few Wöltje-Ur branches in Oldenburg remained in the company.
In 2020 Wöltje will operate two sales branches, a photo studio in Oldenburg as well as a camera and photo work internet shop.
Today Wöltje offers cameras, lenses and accessories, as well as customer seminars on photographic topics, the design of the CEWE photo book and photo trips. In addition, he is a training company for the professional profile of the photo media specialist .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Announcement on August 26, 2014 in the eBundesanzeiger
Coordinates: 53 ° 6 '3 " N , 8 ° 12' 43.9" E