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KaDeWe Group
KaDeWe Group GmbH is a group of three department stores in Germany with around 4,000 employees. It is owned by the Thai Central Group. * KaDeWe (Kaufhaus des Westens) in Berlin *Oberpollinger in Munich * Alsterhaus in Hamburg History The group was founded in 2014 by Signa Holding (at the time owner of German department store Galeria Kaufhof) and for a short period was also owned by Beny Steinmetz. In 2015 Central Group Central Group consists of a variety of diverse investments in various corporations in Thailand and abroad, including investments in retail, property development, brand management, hospitality, and food and beverage sectors, and in digital lifes ... (who own a plethora of department stores in Asia and Europe) acquired a stake in the company. The construction of a new department store titled ''Lamarr'' (after actress Hedy Lamarr) was announced in 2022 to be built in Vienna. However as of 2024 after the bankruptcy of Signa the project is for sale and no long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Group
Central Group consists of a variety of diverse investments in various corporations in Thailand and abroad, including investments in retail, property development, brand management, hospitality, and food and beverage sectors, and in digital lifestyle. History Founder Tiang emigrated from Hainan Island to Bangkok in 1925. Most other Chinese immigrants started businesses in Chinatown, Bangkok. He set up his first shop in the Thon Buri district on the outskirts of Bangkok across the Chao Phraya River from the city center. He moved across the Chao Phraya River to a location near the grand Oriental Hotel (now the Mandarin Oriental), where he opened a store with his eldest son, Samrit, in 1947. In 1956, the family opened Thailand's first department store in Chinatown. In 1957, Tiang's son, Samrit Chirathivat, opened the first Central Department Store in Wangburapha, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok. The company's property development arm, Central Pattana was founded in 1980, and opened its f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaufhaus Des Westens
The Kaufhaus des Westens (), abbreviated to KaDeWe, is a department store in Berlin, Germany. With over of retail space and more than 380,000 articles available, it is the second-largest department store in Europe after Harrods in London. It attracts 40,000 to 50,000 visitors every day. The store is located on Tauentzienstraße, a major shopping street, between Wittenbergplatz and Breitscheidplatz, near the heart of former West Berlin. It is technically in the extreme northwest of the south Berlin neighborhood of Schöneberg. Since 2015, KaDeWe has been owned by the Central Group, a Thailand-based international department store conglomerate. History Empire and Weimar Republic: the Jandorf Era The businessman Adolf Jandorf had opened six stores for basic needs with his company ''A. Jandorf & Co.'' in Berlin by 1905. Like the competitor stores ''Wertheim Leipziger Strasse'' (1894) and the ''Warenhaus Tietz'' (1900), also on Leipziger Strasse, Jandorf wanted to cater for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberpollinger
The Oberpollinger is a well-known upscale department store on Neuhauser Straße in Munich. It is run by ''KaDeWe Group GmbH'' (formerly Karstadt Premium GmbH) and is the largest department store in Southern Germany. The building was built in 1905 by Max Littmann in the style of Historicism in the form of the Neo-Renaissance and is a listed building. History In the floor plan of today's building there were originally five narrow medieval town houses and on the eastern corner the building of the princely customs office, as can be seen from the Jakob Sandtner, Sandtner city model from 1570. In 1837 the customs office was converted into the ducal salt office. The neighboring house had been a brewery since 1556, changing hands several times until it was taken over by the brewer Christoph Pollinger in 1584. His family, a long-established brewery dynasty, owned property near St. Jakob (Munich), Angerkloster, near Sendlinger Straße, a second brewery. The people of Munich soon diff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by population, third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and thus the largest which does not constitute its own state, as well as the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 11th-largest city in the European Union. The Munich Metropolitan Region, city's metropolitan region is home to 6 million people. Straddling the banks of the River Isar (a tributary of the Danube) north of the Northern Limestone Alps, Bavarian Alps, Munich is the seat of the Bavarian Regierungsbezirk, administrative region of Upper Bavaria, while being the population density, most densely populated municipality in Germany (4,500 people per km2). Munich is the second-largest city in the Bavarian dialects, Bavarian dialect area, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburg
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Signa Holding
Signa Holding GmbH (stylized as SIGNA) is Austria’s largest privately owned real estate company. Signa was founded in 2000 by the Tyrolean entrepreneur René Benko. Over the years, it has become a pan-European real estate group with more than 150 employees and offices in Vienna, Innsbruck, Munich, Düsseldorf, Luxembourg, Zurich, Bolzano, Berlin and Hamburg. The principal focus of the group is long-term investment in real estate in prime city centre locations. The firm has also became the biggest owner of malls in Mid Europe with over 46.000 employees. Structure In 2013, SIGNA extended its activities on merchandising by acquiring majority stakes in the German sporting goods specialist Karstadt sports and in Karstadt Premium. In summer of 2014, SIGNA took over Karstadt Warenhaus. Since 2013 SIGNA operates in two independent business segments. In 2018 a third segment with "SIGNA Media" was added. The group of companies covers real estate assets worth more tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galeria Kaufhof
Galeria Kaufhof GmbH was a German department store chain, headquartered in Cologne. It was a member of the International Association of Department Stores from 1930 to 2010, with various CEOs acting as presidents of the Association over time. Until 30 September 2015, the company was a subsidiary of Metro AG, when the company announced that it had been acquired by Hudson's Bay Company. In September 2018 they announced plans to merge with their largest competitor Karstadt. In June 2019 all the shares of Galeria Kaufhof were bought by the Austrian company Signa Holding, who been the partner in the former merger. On March 25, 2019 Karstadt & Galeria Kaufhof launched their merged company, Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof, based in Essen, with a new logo and a new website ''galeria.de''. Business portfolio *Galeria Kaufhof - 97 branches *DINEA Gastronomie GmbH - 58 restaurants *Galeria Inno INNO is a department store chain that operates 16 stores in Belgium. It was founded in 1897 in Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beny Steinmetz
Beny Steinmetz ( he, בני שטיינמץ; born 2 April 1956) is an Israeli businessman and entrepreneur, with a focus in the mining and energy sectors, while being also active in the real estate and diamond-mining industries. Beny Steinmetz is the chairman and co-founder of the philanthropic trust, Agnes & Beny Steinmetz Foundation and is actively involved in the art world in Israel. Early life and family Beny Steinmetz was born in 1956 in Netanya, Israel and is the fourth child of Rubin Steinmetz, a pioneer of the diamond trade. At the age of 21, after serving three years in the military, Steinmetz emigrated from Israel to Belgium, to the famous diamond hub, Antwerp. There he began paving his long and successful career as a businessman and entrepreneur. Today Steinmetz lives in Israel with his wife Agnes and their four children. Steinmetz also holds French citizenship and describes himself as an "international Israeli." Business career Building on the family legacy and workin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr (; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor. A film star during Hollywood's golden age, Lamarr has been described as one of the greatest movie actresses of all time. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial '' Ecstasy'' (1933), she fled from her first husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood. She became a film star with her performance in ''Algiers'' (1938). Her MGM films include ''Lady of the Tropics'' (1939), ''Boom Town'' (1940), '' H.M. Pulham, Esq.'' (1941), and ''White Cargo'' (1942). Her greatest success was as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Bible-inspired ''Samson and Delilah'' (1949). She also acted on television before the release of her final film, '' The Female Animal'' (1958). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuters
Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters Corporation. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency was established in London in 1851 by the German-born Paul Reuter. It was acquired by the Thomson Corporation of Canada in 2008 and now makes up the media division of Thomson Reuters. History 19th century Paul Reuter worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions in 1848. These publications brought much attention to Reuter, who in 1850 developed a prototype news service in Aachen using homing pigeons and electric telegraphy from 1851 on, in order to transmit messages between Brussels and Aachen, in what today is Aachen's Reuters House. Reuter moved to London in 1851 and established a news wire agency at the London Royal Exchange. Headquartered in London, Reuter' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Companies Based In Berlin
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared goals. Companies take various forms, such as: * voluntary associations, which may include nonprofit organizations * business entities, whose aim is generating profit * financial entities and banks * programs or educational institutions A company can be created as a legal person so that the company itself has limited liability as members perform or fail to discharge their duty according to the publicly declared incorporation, or published policy. When a company closes, it may need to be liquidated to avoid further legal obligations. Companies may associate and collectively register themselves as new companies; the resulting entities are often known as corporate groups. Meanings and definitions A company can be defined as an "artificial per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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