Globus (company)

The Magazine zum Globus AG (French Grands Magasins globe SA, Italian Grandi Magazzinisituated globe SA ) is a Swiss retail company. The company, founded in 1907, belongs since 1997 to the Migros Group.

Survey

The self-directed until 2006 within the Migros Group former globe - group included in addition to the Magazine zum Globus AG also the furniture company Interio AG, which specializes in office supplies Office World AG. These are run as independent companies within the Migros Group since early 2007.

The Magazine zum Globus AG operates in Switzerland 13 Globus department stores, 21 men's Globus branches ( menswear ) and an outlet and in 2007 achieved sales of CHF 781.3 million.

History

In 1892, Josef Weber inspired by the Parisian models on the Papierwerd to the railway bridge, the first major department store in Zurich, the bazaar without equal. A little later, the banker Henry Burkhardt was first business partner, then buyer of the house, which he in a corporation with 2.5 million francs capital, Magazine zum Globus AG converted in 1907 and at the same time changed the name of the department store in today. This is considered the birth year of the globe.

Globin

For the 25th anniversary of the globe was created character " globin " for the children of advertising globe in 1932 by former advertising manager Ignatius Charles Schiele and draftsman Robert Lips. For the popular figure the Globe subsidiary was founded in 1944 « globin Verlag AG ", which has since moved the books and now markets the most successful Swiss children 's book character. The globin -Verlag remained after 1997, a Group company, until in 2006 the restructuring of the Globus Group.

After the Second World War world moved into the vacant Pestalozzi school house between Bahnhofstrasse and Löwenplatz to create on the Papierwerd a new headquarters. The corresponding construction project was rejected in 1951 at a municipal referendum.

Since the new location on the Bahnhofstrasse to be extremely well turned out, was built on the paper -Areal in the Limmat River from Zurich architect Karl Egender the so-called globe temporary, in which the store was located during the demolition of the old school building and the new construction of today's department store. The former school site was acquired by the City of Zurich in exchange for the Papierwerd Island. The new building was purchased in 1967. The temporary restoration was a year later in connection with the Zurich youth riots in the so-called globe ruckus when empty globe - temporary in the spotlight. The former department store temporary stands today, has been renovated several times and is now itself become a monument candidate, because the lightweight building today represents far more than the luxurious Prestige parent company of Globus department store on the Pestalozzi meadow, the thoughts of the Second Swiss Modernism whose well-known protagonist Karl Egender certainly was. The striking two-story house in the best location in front of passers-by Zurich's main station is used by the second-largest Swiss retailer Coop and the Zurich city police.

Au Bon Marché

Globe launched in 1956 the discount department store ABM (Au Bon Marché ) that could boast 60 sites in the eighties. After numerous entrepreneurial wrong decisions and reorganisations, the ABM department stores Globus Group brought in the nineties a heavy financial losses that led to the abandonment of the second department store chain in 2001.

National expansion

From the toughest competitors Jelmoli took over Globus 1996 12 department stores, including the well known Grand Passage in Geneva (founded in 1907), Innovation in Lausanne, Aux Armourins in Neuchâtel ( founded in 1920, closed in the fall of 2011), Jelmoli in Lucerne and smooth center and Innovazione in Locarno, including staff.

As a replacement for the ABM department stores Globus Group operated as a franchisee of Oviesse ( trendy fashion ). The ABM locations were converted to Oviesse branches to which usually Nannini cafes and Estorel drugstores were attached, as the new concept is not occupied the entire area of the former ABM stores. By the end of 2004, the Oviesse branches and Nannini cafes were closed again.

Sale to the Migros

1997 sold the family Bitterli Magazine zum Globus to Migros, which continued the Globus Group until the end of 2006 as an independent company.

As of 1 January 2007, the group structure of the Globus group was dissolved. The individual companies of the former Globus Group have since been conducted as an independent company within the Migros Group.

Also on January 1, 2007, the globin publishing house was sold to the Orell Füssli publishing house.

Acquisition of sign

In October 2013 globe and the Lucerne fashion store chain Schild AG announced that the previous sign - shareholders their shares (Stefan Portmann and Thomas Herbert 27% each, the EGS Investments AG as a subsidiary of Ernst Goehner Foundation 42% and the shield management 4% ) sell globe and in return, Portmann and Herbert participate with a double-digit million amount of globe. Shield is to continue to operate as an independent group in the entire company, the middle through the acquisition with approximately CHF 1 billion in sales to the Swiss market leader in the segment and upscale fashion is.