The E. Breuninger GmbH & CO., Stuttgart, operates Breuninger of department stores in Germany under the name.

The principal firm was opened in the year 1881 by Eduard Breuninger in Stuttgart. There today still 35.000 m are sales area one of of the largest department stores of Germany in the market route and are with (e.g. the department stores KaDeWe are larger in Berlin, Hertie in Munich (40.000m sales area) and Galeria purchase yard in Cologne (36.000m sales area)). Further houses operates the group in Ludwigsburg and Sindelfingen (there in each case in the "Breuningerland", a shopping centre with further attached commercial transactions and catering trade enterprises) as well as in Dresden, Duesseldorf, Erfurt, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Pforzheim, Reutlingen, Sulzbach and

Acting partner of the E. Breuninger GmbH & CO. is since 1980 Willem G. van Agtmael.

Into the 1950er years was Breuninger the first department store of the world, which possessed elevators and escalators. 1959 were again Breuninger the first German trade enterprise, which introduced a customer map with the "Breuninger Card" (at that time "Breuninger customer map" mentioned), with which regular customers on credit with regular account buy could. Also the house had as the first department store its own multi-storey car park for its customers. The idea for this brought the acting partner at that time Heinz Breuninger of a USA journey also.

For the 1920er years it is for all coworkers in the Kundenbereich obligation, only clothes in the colors white to carry black and grey.

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