HEMA (store)

The Hollandse Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij Amsterdam ( German: Dutch unit price Society Amsterdam ) is a native of the Netherlands department store chain operating in Germany since 2002 also stores.

Typical of HEMA the low prices and the range of products, which are produced exclusively by all and / or HEMA are.

History

The Dutch department store chain De Bijenkorf founded in 1926 cheap line HEMA. The first branch in 1926 at the Amsterdam Kalverstraat - founded - the most visited shopping street in the Netherlands. The concept was that all items were sold at uniform prices.

2007 HEMA was acquired by private equity firm Lion Capital and published since then no more business figures.

HEMA currently operates (2012 ) around 600 branches, mainly in the Netherlands ( 500 ), Belgium (87 ), Germany (10 ), Luxembourg (4 ) and France ( 9). The central warehouse is located in the industrial area in Utrecht Lage Weide .. The first German branch is located since 2003 in Neuss city center, Büchel 22-24. Six of the stores are in North Rhine -Westphalia, Lower Saxony and three since September 2010 and a branch in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ( Rhineland -Palatinate). The administrative headquarters of the HEMA GmbH & Co. KG is located in Essen. The productivity per unit area is in the best German stores in about 2150, - Euro / m², in the Netherlands, however, well above 1000 euros.