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| founding | 1958 |
| resolution | 1997 |
| Seat | Karlsruhe |
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Hugo Mann (until 1989) Johannes Mann (from 1989) |
| Number of employees | approx. 6,000 |
| sales | € 1.5 billion |
| Branch | retail trade |
Wertkauf was a German retail group that had 21 stores before it was taken over by the US supermarket chain Walmart . The headquarters of the group was in Karlsruhe .
history
The first branch opened in Karlsruhe in 1958. Initially, however, no groceries were offered on a sales area of around 3500 m². Even before the mid- 1960s , the store was a full-range supplier. In 1966 a Wertkauf-Center with 3500 m² was opened in Freiburg im Breisgau. The new Karlsruhe shopping center from the middle of the decade was almost completely destroyed on August 26, 1969 in one of the worst major fires in the city's history. Then it was rebuilt in the same place and slightly enlarged.
Eight years later, the second store opened in Freiburg, with an area of 6000 m². In 1968 the company built what was then the largest European hypermarket in Munich's Euro-Industriepark with a sales area of 13,500 m². One of the innovations was storage in high shelves directly in the stores; The goods were also handled by forklifts during opening hours .
Until recently, the chain had around 6,000 employees and had annual sales of up to 1.5 billion euros.
The owner was Hugo Mann (and his wife Rosmarie, née Porst), who had also founded the furniture chain Mann Mobilia , from which Wertkauf later developed and was then spun off.
sale
In 1997 the Wertkauf stores were sold to the American retail chain Walmart . After an economic failure, Walmart's entire German business was sold on to the Metro Group in 2006 ; the former Wertkauf-Center will continue to operate under the real brand .
With retroactive effect from July 1, 2005, the furniture chain Mann Mobilia in Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Wiesbaden, Dreieich, Ludwigsburg, Freiburg and Eschborn was also taken over by the Austrian XXXLutz group based in Wels . In the course of the takeover, the head office in Karlsruhe was dissolved.
Former locations
- Bremen, Duckwitzstraße 55 (there later Duckwitz shopping park )
- Darmstadt, Eschollbrücker Straße (later Real there )
- Dortmund-Oespel, Wulfshofstraße (in the shopping center and industrial area "Indupark")
- Dreieich-Sprendlingen (Offenbach district), Robert-Bosch-Straße (later Real there)
- Freiburg, Gundelfinger Strasse (later Real there)
- Heidenau (near Dresden, later Real there), Hauptstrasse 1–3
- Giessen, Gottlieb-Daimler-Strasse
- Groß-Gerau, Mainzer Straße (later Real there)
- Ingelheim, Nahe-Ring
- Karlsruhe, Durlacher Allee (there later Durlach Center)
- Maintal-Dörnigheim (near Frankfurt), Wingertstrasse 39–43 (later Real there)
- Mainz-Weisenau, Weberstrasse (closed as Real 2015, reopened as Edeka Scheck-In Center in 2016)
- Mannheim, Spreewaldallee (there later EKZ Kurpfalz-Zentrum)
- Munich, Euro-Industriepark (there later V-Markt)
- Oststeinbek (near Hamburg), Willinghusener Weg
- Raunheim, Flörsheimer Strasse
- Sulzbach, Main-Taunus-Center
- Siegen, Eiserfelder Strasse (later Real there)
- Wetzlar, Südstadt, Hörnsheimer Eck
- Wiesbaden, Äppelallee 69
- Wiesbaden, Mainzer Strasse
- Würzburg, Nürnberger Strasse (opening on September 30, 1976)
Individual evidence
- ↑ How Man Makes Millions , Die Zeit , July 23, 1971
- ^ Duckwitz shopping park in Bremen
- ↑ Gerald Langer, Reinhart Lutz: From an operational survey of class 11b as part of geography lessons. In: Josef Brecht (Ed.): Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium Würzburg. Annual report 1976/77. Würzburg 1977, pp. 54-56.