Manufactum

The Manufactum GmbH & Co. KG (formerly Manufactum Hoof & Partner KG ), based in Waltrop, North Rhine -Westphalia is a retail company with mail order and steady sales. It is now part of the Otto Group.

History

The name can be found earlier in the State Prize Manufactum, which in North Rhine -Westphalia is an award for the arts and crafts. Whose name grabbed Thomas Hoof on for his shipping business. Hoof was vormaliger country manager of the party Alliance 90/The Greens in North Rhine -Westphalia. In 2005, the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin saw the lengthy catalog texts that tell a story about the product, as crucial for the success of the company. In 2007 the company in 2007, with over 400 employees, an annual turnover of approximately 75 million euros. On 1 January 2008 took over the mail- Heine, a subsidiary of the Otto Group, the outstanding shares of Manufactum Hoof & Partner KG for an estimated 20 million euros after it since 1998 - was involved in Manufactum - last with 50 percent.

The range mainly include household goods; However, it now also includes furniture, clothing, office supplies, food, books and garden accessories and the like. The company motto "There is still the good things " describes the company's philosophy to trade with quality goods that are still traditionally made in part.

The quality of the products tried the goods catalog of Manufactum to apply for a linguistically sophisticated and knowledgeable manner, sometimes with restrained humor and laconic. Older issues and the now published separately House Messages have collector value obtained, so that several university libraries have holdings of the annual catalogs.

In addition to the shipping trade Manufactum operates department stores in the old colliery Waltrop, the Alter Hof in Munich, Hamburg Chile House in Stuttgart magazine in Berlin's Haus Hardenberg, in the stone road in Dusseldorf, in Cologne Disch - house and in the Frankfurt Opera Tower.

To Manufactum Group also includes Manufactum Bread & Butter with shops in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Munich, Waltrop and Frankfurt, Good from monasteries, the magazine shops in Stuttgart, Bonn and Munich as well as the inn Lohnhalle in Waltrop and distribution companies in Austria, in Switzerland and in the UK. 2009, the turnover amounted to around 80 million euros.

The central warehouse Manufactum located since 2009 in Gudensberg in the Schwalm - Eder district in northern Hesse and is operated by an enterprise of Rudolph Logistics Group.

Shops

Sales hall at the Zeche Waltrop

The house Hardenberg in Berlin

The Disch-Haus in Cologne

The Chile House in Hamburg