“Teddy & Co” at Mayerschen in Dortmund © Mayersche
owner: Dr. Hartmut Falter, Ullrich Falter
management: Dr. Hartmut Falter, Ullrich Falter, Helmut Falter
2017 sales: 155 million euros
Employee: more than 800
Branches: 54
Locations: NRW and Trier
history
The independent, owner-managed company currently has 55 bookstores. The first Mayer bookshop opened in Aachen in 1817, the founder was Jacob Anton Mayer. The Falter family has owned Mayersche since 1950. The company initially branched in Aachen and since the 1980s increasingly in many cities on the Rhine and Ruhr. These include major bookstores in Düsseldorf, Aachen, Cologne, Dortmund and Essen as well as many smaller district bookstores. To the picture gallery.
Mayer branches:
North Rhine-Westphalia (53):
Aachen; Awls; Bergheim; Bocholt; Bochum; Bochum Ruhr Park; Bark; Bottrop; Frets; Castrop-Rauxel; Dormagen; Dortmund; Dortmund Hombruch; Duisburg forum; Duisburg-Rheinhausen; Dusseldorf Droste; Düsseldorf-Gerresheim; Düsseldorf Nordstrasse; Düsseldorf Friedrichstrasse; Eschweiler; Eat; Essen Rüttenscheid; Cheeky; Gelsenkirchen; Gelsenkirchen Buer; Gladbeck; Grevenbroich; Gummersbach; Gutersloh; Hattingen; Herford; Herne; Came; Kerpen; Cologne Chlodwigplatz; Cologne Deutz; Cologne Mülheim; Cologne Neumarkt; Cologne knick-knacks; Cologne Rodenkirchen; Cologne Sülz; Mönchengladbach; Neheim; Neuss; Pulheim; Ratingen; Rheydt; Saint Augustine; Troisdorf; Viersen; Wesel; Witten; Wuppertal
Rhineland-Palatinate (1)
trier
owner: Herder family, Kreke family, Dr. Leif Göritz, Michael Busch
management: Michael Busch (Chairman), Roland Kölbl, Ingo Kretzschmar, Klaus Ortner, Markus Steib
2017 sales: 950 million euros (estimated)
Employee: 4,000
Branches: approx. 300
Locations: 233 in Germany; 35 in Austria and 32 in Switzerland (Orell Füssli Thalia)
History:
The first Thalia bookshop was founded in Hamburg in 1919, and the Könnecke family took over in 1931.
2001: The Hamburg Thalia bookstores and the Hagen book trade group Phönix-Montanus merge to form the newly founded Thalia Holding GmbH (Thalia Holding GmbH is a 75% subsidiary of Douglas Holding AG and Könnecke Beteiligungs-GmbH to 25%) Könnecke and Michael Busch.
2004-2008: The Thalia group takes over (among others) the Kober and Löffler group Mannheim, the Bouvier group Bonn, the Buchhaus Campe in Nuremberg, the book trade group Gondrom, the Dresden book trade group BUCH & KUNST book trade chain Kaiser in Karlsruhe and takes a majority share at the bookshop Grüttefien GmbH.
2012: The founding family Könnecke sells its shares to Thalia Holding and leaves as a partner.
In 2013, the majority of Douglas and the shares of Thalia were sold to the financial investor Advent.
In summer 2016, Thalia will be managed by the Herder family of publishers, the Kreke family of dealers (who originally owned Douglas Holding) and digital entrepreneur Dr. Leif Göritz, as well as the managing partner Michael Busch.
Recent developments:
With more than 300 branches, Thalia is the market leader in the German-language retail book trade. In stationary retail, Thalia has opened or taken over more than 20 branches in the past three years – including individual independent bookstores and the regional chain store Wittwer (Stuttgart). Two takeovers have been announced for spring 2019.
Thalia has the past Business year (October 1, 2017 – September 30, 2018) completed across all channels with a slight increase in sales of less than one percent and the best result in many years, says partner Michael Busch. The share of E-commerce von Thalia accounts for around 20 percent of sales, according to the company.
Thalia has been testing in three branches since November 2018 new branch concept: in the 1,400 square meter bookstore in the pedestrian zone in Hagen, on 800 square meters in the Düsseldorf Arcaden shopping center and in Leipzig on 300 square meters. Go to Article.
The new concept is about what the stationary book trade can score against the online business: personalize and advise. In parallel, the reading and educationalImage campaign “World, stay awake” in brick-and-mortar stores, played out via digital channels and television.
Thalia branches:
Baden-Wuerttemberg (18)
Baden-Baden; Ettlingen; Heidelberg; Heidenheim; Karlsruhe; Karlsruhe – EKZ Am Ettlinger Tor; Karlsruhe-Mühlburg; Thalia Ludwigsburg; Wittwer-Thalia; Ludwigsburg – Breuningerland; Mannheim – planks; Mannheim – On Paradeplatz; Pforzheim; Rastatt Wittwer-Thalia; Sindelfingen – Breuningerland Buchhaus Wittwer-Thalia; Stuttgart – At the Schlossplatz; Ulm – Blautal Center; Because on the Rhine
Bavaria (15)
Aschaffenburg – City Gallery; Augsburg; Bayreuth; Bruckmuehl; Coburg; Gain; Erlangen – Erlangen arcades; Court; Neu-Ulm – Glacis Gallery; Nuremberg; Passau – city gallery; Regensburg – Danube shopping center; Rosenheim; Schweinfurt – city gallery; Traunstein
Berlin / Brandenburg (20)
Berlin Oak – Kaufpark Eiche; Berlin – Gesundbrunnen Center; Berlin – East Side Mall; Berlin – Schultheiss district; Berlin – Wilmersdorfer Arcaden; Berlin – Alexa; Berlin – The Castle; Berlin – Eastgate; Berlin – Schönhauser Allee Arcaden; Berlin – Rathaus-Center; Berlin Spandau – Spandau Arcades; Berlin – Linden Center; Berlin Köpenick – Forum Köpenick; Berlin – Ring Center II; Berlin Borsig – Hallen Am Borsigturm; Brandenburg – Sankt-Annen-Gallery; Cottbus – BLECHEN carré; Dallgow-Döberitz – HavelPark; Schwedt; Wildau – A10 center
Hamburg (9)
Hamburg – AEZ; Hamburg – Tibarg Center; Hamburg – EKZ Hamburger Meile; Hamburg – EEZ; Hamburg; Hamburg – Phoenix Center; Hamburg – Europapassage; Hamburg Wandsbek – Quarree Wandsbek market; Hamburg – White Rose
Hesse (15)
Baunatal – Ratioland Baunatal; Darmstadt – boulevard; Frankfurt – northwest center; Fulda; To water; Hanau – Forum Hanau; Kassel; Kassel – DEZ; Korbach; Limburg; Marburg – Ahrens department store; Offenbach; Sulzbach – Main-Taunus-Zentrum; Weiterstadt – Loop Weiterstadt; Wetzlar – Forum Wetzlar
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (4)
Neubrandenburg – market square center; University bookstore; Rostock – Kröpeliner Tor Center; Schwerin – Castle Park Center
Lower Saxony / Bremen (33)
Aurich; Bad Zwischenahn; Braunschweig – castle arcades; Bremen – Roland Center; Bremen – Duckwitzstrasse; Bremen – Vegesack; Bremen – Berlin freedom; Bremen – Weserpark bookshop; Bremen – Hansa Carré; Bremen – Waterfront; Bremen – Hansehof; Bremerhaven; Cloppenburg; Cuxhaven; Einbeck; Emden; Göttingen – purchase park; Göttingen; Hameln – city gallery; Empty; Lingen; Nienburg; Nordhorn; Oldenburg – castle courtyards; Osnabruck; Posthausen – Dodenhof; Peine; Stade; Varel; Vechta; Wilhelmshaven; Wittmund; Wolfsburg – City Gallery
North Rhine-Westphalia (54)
Bad Oeynhausen; Bad Salzuflen; Bergisch Gladbach; Bielefeld – EKZ Loom; Bielefeld; Bonn Duisdorf; Bonn; Brühl market; Coesfeld; Dinslaken; Dorsten; Dortmund – Thier gallery; Düren; Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Arcaden; Eat; Essen – Allee-Center; Essen – Kronenberg Center; Euskirchen; Hagen; Hamm – Allee-Center; Hilden; Hoxter; Hürth – EKZ Hürth Park; Ibbenbüren; Iserlohn; Kleve; Cologne – City Center; Cologne – Rhein-Center; Cologne Lime – Cologne Arcades; Greven Books; Langenfeld – city gallery; Lemgo; Leverkusen; Lippstadt; Lüdenscheid – Stern Center; Lünen; Minden; Moers; Mülheim – Forum City; Mülheim – Rhein-Ruhr-Zentrum; Münster – Münster-Arkaden Poertgen-Herder – House of Books; Neuss – Rheinpark – Center Neuss; Outlet; Oberhausen – Centro; Paderborn; Recklinghausen – Palais Vest; Remscheid – Allee Center; Rheine; Siegburg; Soest; Solingen – EKZ Hofgarten; Velbert; Wuppertal – city arcades
Rhineland-Palatinate (11)
Andernach; Frankenthal; Kaiserslautern; Koblenz – Löhr Center; Landau; Ludwigshafen – Rhine gallery; Neuwied; Pirmasens; Trier – Trier gallery; Worms; Zweibruecken
Saarland (3)
Neunkirchen – Saarpark Center; Saarbruecken; Saarbrücken – Saar Bazaar
Saxony (29)
Bautzen – Kornmarkt-Center; Chemnitz – Gallery Roter Turm; Chemnitz – Saxony Allee; Chemnitz – Neefepark; Dresden – dresden.karree; Dresden – Borsbergstrasse; Dresden – Elbe Park; Dresden – KaufPark; Dresden – Klotzsche; Dresden – Schillerplatz; Dresden – House of the Book; Dresden – Bookstore Technical University; Dresden – Dresden specialist book; Dresden – Hauptstrasse; Freital – Weißeritz Park; Gorlitz; Grossenhain Hoyerswerda – Lausitz Center; Leipzig; Leipzig – Allee Center; Löbau; Meissen; Pirna; Plauen; Radebeul; Riesa; Röhrsdorf – Chemnitz Center; Zittau; Zwickau
Saxony-Anhalt (11)
Aschersleben; Bernburg; Dessau – Town Hall Center; Halle-Neustadt – Center Neustadt; Hall; Leuna / Günthersdorf – Nova Eventis; Lutherstadt Eisleben; Lutherstadt Wittenberg – Arsenal; Magdeburg – Allee Center; Magdeburg – Flora Park; Stendal
Schleswig-Holstein (3)
Lübeck – Citti Park; Lübeck – LUV; Norderstedt – Herold Center
Thuringia (8)
Eisenach; Gera – Gera arcades; Gotha Jena University Bookstore; Thalia EKZ Neue Mitte; Jena – Goethe Gallery; Rudolstadt; Saalfeld; Weimar
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