Zurbrüggen residential center

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Zurbrüggen Wohnzentrum GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1900
Seat Unna
management Christian and Stefan Zurbrüggen as well as Thomas Hagermann
Number of employees 1600
sales 340 million euros (2014)
Branch Furniture trade and interior decoration
Website www.zurbrueggen.de

Zurbrüggen in Unna
Zurbrüggen in Delmenhorst (top right in the picture)

The Zurbrüggen residential center GmbH is a furniture store that in 1900 in Westphalia Oelde was founded. A furniture wholesaler had been operating since 1932. From this wholesale business a retail company emerged after the head office in Oelde had been rebuilt in 1958. Today the three sales lines Zurbrüggen , Z2 and Osca! operated.

Company history

The company was founded in 1900 by Franz Zurbrüggen senior in Oelde as a "mechanical joinery" and currently operates the following locations:

  • Unna headquarters and company headquarters, sales outlets: Zurbrüggen , Z2 and Osca!
  • Oelde head office , sales house: Zurbrüggen , Z2
  • Bielefeld sales outlets: Zurbrüggen , Z2 and Osca!
  • Delmenhorst stores: Zurbrüggen and Z2
  • Herne sales outlets: Zurbrüggen and Z2 (from 2012)
  • Ganderkesee sales house: Osca!
  • Bönen high-bay warehouse

The company says it employs around 1,600 people at seven locations. The largest furniture store with 40,000 m² of exhibition space is the one in Unna , followed by the stores in Bielefeld, Delmenhorst and the store at the headquarters in Oelde. The groundbreaking ceremony for another residential center in Herne took place on May 2, 2011 . The truck fleet consists of almost 70 vehicles. Zurbrüggen has also been active in online trading since mid-2011.

In 2008 the company achieved a turnover of 280 million euros, in 2014 this was 340 million euros.

At the beginning of January 2015 it became known that the furniture store chain XXXLutz , which had taken over the traditional houses Kröger and Möbelstadt Rück in 2014 , had also joined the family business Zurbrüggen. A cooperation agreement was signed with the XXXL Group and 50 percent of the Zurbrüggen shares were sold to the Austrian owner family Seifert. According to media reports, the family company will retain its independence despite the cooperation with XXXL. In particular, no further sale of shares is planned and the management will remain in the hands of the brothers Christian and Stefan Zurbrüggen and Thomas Hagermann.

"Hitler Cups"

In April 2014 it was announced that the company cups with a portrait of Adolf Hitler and a swastika - Field Post - Postmark sold. According to the company's own statements , the Chinese designers did not know Hitler and "nobody noticed" when they were unpacking and sorting. As a result of this incident, the Dortmund public prosecutor's office investigated the charge of the use of anti- constitutional symbols . This procedure was discontinued a short time later. Since the company could not be proven that it knowingly sold the Hitler cups, there was no criminal behavior, it said.

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zurbrüggen → Company
  2. ↑ Groundbreaking ceremony for the new Zurbrüggen residential center in Herne
  3. ↑ erstzu-wem.de
  4. ↑ a b derwesten.de of January 9, 2015: Furniture giant XXXL is now also getting involved in Zurbrüggen , accessed on January 12, 2015
  5. ↑ Furniture store chain in North Rhine-Westphalia recalls Hitler's cup
  6. ↑ Hitler mug is a case for state security ( memento from April 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ westfalen-blatt.de of July 25, 2014: Hitler Cups: Proceedings discontinued , accessed on January 12, 2015

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 50.4 "  N , 7 ° 40 ′ 6.9"  E