Weiland (book trade)
The Gustav Weiland Nachf. GmbH was a book trade -Filialunternehmen headquartered in Lübeck in the house of the former tax office in the Fleischhauer Straße 20 .
The company was founded in 1845 by Johannes Carstens in Lübeck. The namesake Gustav Weiland took over the bookstore in 1873. In 2007, the previously owner-managed company had 33 branches in northern Germany.
DBH Buchhandelsgesellschaft, a joint venture between Hugendubel and Weltbild and the largest book retail chain in Germany before the Thalia Group , has been a shareholder with a stake of 50.1 percent since 2007 . The takeover by the DBH Buchhandelsgesellschaft required the approval of the Federal Cartel Office . After taking over the Karstadt bookstores in October 2007, DBH Buchhandelsgesellschaft now has more than 500 branches. The Hamkens family from Lübeck held the other shares in Gustav Weiland Nachf. GmbH. Henning Hamkens remained managing director.
At the beginning of 2008, Weiland GmbH & Co. KG took over the Cottbus- based HERON bookstore with the associated nine branches in southern Brandenburg and northern Saxony, and on October 15, 2008 the Dawartz bookstore in Kiel, after Waltraud Hunke took over the Mühlau university bookstore in Kiel in 1977 .
In April 2012 it was announced that DBH had completely taken over Weiland and that the Weiland, HERON and Deuerlich stores would be renamed Hugendubel in November 2012 . The Weiland headquarters in Lübeck will be integrated into the Hugendubel headquarters in Munich. Managing Director Henning Hamkens will leave the company at the end of 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Weiland becomes Hugendubel: Lübeck site is secured ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Lübecker Nachrichten, October 30, 2012
- ↑ to the entry of Weltbild and Hugendubel at Weiland ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Lübecker Nachrichten , August 17, 2006
- ↑ Bookstore Weiland swallowed by Hugendubel . ( Memento from April 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Lübecker Nachrichten , April 19, 2012
