WEKO Wohnen group of companies
| WEKO Wohnen group of companies
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| legal form | Group of companies |
| founding | 1948 |
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Pfarrkirchen , Germany
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| Number of employees | 1300 |
| Branch | Furniture & home accessories |
| Website | www.weko.com |
The WEKO Wohnen group of companies consists of several retail companies in the furniture industry. These include two department stores in Pfarrkirchen and Rosenheim , two self-service furniture discount stores in Hebertsfelden and Rosenheim and three specialist kitchen stores in Pfarrkirchen, Rosenheim and Eching .
The company is headquartered in Pfarrkirchen in the Lower Bavarian district of Rottal-Inn .
The company is a full-range provider in the home and furnishings sector. Its core range includes furniture and kitchens in a wide variety of styles. In addition, the company also offers housewares and home accessories at.
history
Today's furniture store WEKO was founded in its original form in 1948. Alois Weber, owner and operator of a mill and a sawmill in Kohlstorf (in today's Arnstorf ), laid the foundation stone for the WEKO furniture store with the establishment of a carpenter's workshop and entry in the trade register on November 3, 1948. The company name is an acronym and is derived from the first two letters of his surname and the first two letters of the location ( WE about KO hlstorf). Son Helmut Weber was nine years old at the time. The father let Helmut Weber learn several trades. After training as a miller and carpenter , Helmut Weber completed his studies as an engineer for wood and plastic technology in Rosenheim .
After several years of practice in northern Germany, Helmut Weber returned to Kohlstorf in 1963 and took over the family business. He made coffee tables in small numbers. At that time he started trading furniture .
In 1972, Helmut Weber built the first furniture store in Linden ( Hebertsfelden ), the number of employees grew to around 25.
In 1986 Helmut Weber built a new furniture store on the B 388 in Linden. The building has 31,000 m² of retail space, 16,000 m² of which is exhibition space. The company employed 185 people at that time.
In 1994, this location became too small for the expanding company. Since there was no possibility of expansion in Linden, Helmut Weber built a new furniture store in Pfarrkirchen. On August 4, 1994 the total of 68,000 m² of business space, including over 30,000 m² of exhibition space, was opened. 450 employees are working in the company at this time. 120,000 articles are offered in 49 departments on four floors. There is also a supervised children's area and a panorama restaurant.
At the former WEKO location in Linden, another pillar was established in 1995 - the SCHLEUDERMAXX. Conceived as a special item market with self-service furniture, it offers customers furniture, household items, home textiles, drugstore items, lights, tools, toys, car and bicycle accessories and many other item ranges. 40 people are employed in Linden.
On December 18, 2003, WEKO opened the third pillar of the corporate group with an additional location in Rosenheim. More than 120,000 articles are offered on 30,000 m² of exhibition space. The retail space in Rosenheim is 66,000 m². 380 people are employed. There is also a restaurant with a panoramic terrace. In 2011, a planned expansion of the range was criticized by the Rosenheim retail trade.
The second SCHLEUDERMAXX opened in Rosenheim's Aicherpark on July 16, 2009. An assortment of self-service furniture, housewares, home textiles, tools, lights, drugstore items and other post items are offered on 5,500 m² of exhibition space. 23 people are employed there.
In November 2009, the first WEKO kitchen specialist opened just outside Munich . In Eching , 120 model kitchens are presented on 5,000 m² of exhibition space. There is also a technology and granite studio. The kitchen range is complemented by various household goods. Various cooking courses are offered in an integrated, in-house cooking school.
At the WEKO location in Pfarrkirchen, the largest kitchen specialist to date in Bavaria was built in 2014, alongside the main building, in a seven-month construction period. 120 individual kitchens are presented on around 5,000 m² of exhibition space on two floors and supplemented by a granite and technology center.
In September 2014 HS Fachmarkt Vertriebs-GmbH (today: Raumschmiede GmbH) joined the WEKO group of companies with the online shop for garden and leisure furniture, Garten-und-Freizeit.de. In addition to Garten-und-Freizeit.de, the Genderkingen-based company has also been running an online shop for indoor furniture with Piolo.de since summer 2017. In 2018 the Austrian webshop Garten-und-Freizeit.at went live.
As of 01.01. In 2019, HS Fachmarkt Vertriebs-GmbH took over Möbel im Netz GmbH from Heubach in Swabia, thereby expanding its portfolio to include the online shops Betten.de and Betten.at. A further location was added to the WEKO group of companies, for the first time in Baden-Württemberg.
In summer 2019 the name of HS-Fachmarkt Vertriebs-GmbH was changed to Raumschmiede GmbH. Raumschmiede GmbH has a total of 180 employees (as of February 2020).
There are also stationary sales exhibitions at both Raumschmiede GmbH locations. The showroom in Genderkingen covers 2,000 square meters and shows a representative cross-section of the range of garden furniture, umbrellas and grills. In Heubach there is an approx. 350 square meter bed studio.
The logistics for all three shops are also carried out from two locations. In addition to processing at the company headquarters in Genderkingen (storage area 14,000 sqm), since 2018 dispatch has also been carried out by HSF E-commerce sp. z oo, a 100% subsidiary of Raumschmiede GmbH. The logistics service provider in Sady near Posen, Poland, has 26,000 square meters of storage space and specializes primarily in furniture logistics.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Success story WEKO Wohnen, article Passauer Neue Presse article in Passauer Neue Presse on December 9, 2011.
- ↑ Criticism of WEKO product range expansion , article OVB-Online Article on OVB-Online from 30.03.11.
- ↑ WEKO expands headquarters, Passauer Neue Presse report from the Passauer Neue Presse from November 29, 2013
4th WEKO enlarges Report from Internet World Business from August 14, 2019
5. Strategic expansion of press reports from July 3, 2019
6. More growth , merging of the online shops betten.de , g arten-und-freizeit.de and piolo.de under one roof, February 18, 2020