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The enterprise Obi (self-way of writing OBI) is a building market chain with head office, acting world-wide, in Wermelskirchen in Germany. It belongs to the entrepreneurial group Tengelmann. Obi operates building markets among other things in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, Poland, Tschechien, Italy, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Hungary. A temporary commitment in China was again given up.
The German markets are steered by "the German do-it-yourself enthusiast market getting thing GmbH OBI system center ", likewise in Wermelskirchen. To the enterprise five so-called service companies belong:
Beside products for the do-it-yourself enthusiast need the enterprise in addition, some other products offer, for example for nature and garden. Admits became the Franchiseunternehmen by its mark symbol, the beaver. Meanwhile the building market industry stands in a strong displacement and competition, then also the advertising intensity clear increased, among other things also as a CO sponsor with sport broadcasts and Sportveranstaltungen. Obi is for example the only retail business, which as an official sponsor of the soccer world championship appears 2006.
Obi of Dr. Emil lux (1918-2005) and Manfred mouse was created; it is meanwhile the largest building market enterprise of Germany with in the meantime (2005) over 500 locations (of it over 300 alone in Germany) in 10 countries. World-wide the enterprise is the fourth largest building market operator at present. Mouse ranks among the pioneers for the development of building and do-it-yourself enthusiast markets as well as of garden centers in Germany.
In the year 1970 the first Obi market in Hamburg on Franchise basis opened. In the financial year 2004/2005 the Obi markets obtained a conversion of 6,3 billion euro. The turnover portion of the foreign country amounts to 29 per cent. 29,300 coworkers are world-wide busy with the enterprise.
The idea of the company name Obi decreases/goes back to the French discussion of the word hobby, since in the French an H is not spoken. Manfred mouse bought the name Obi of businessmen, who opened a building market with this name in France. Due to the sales contract however no further Obi markets may be opened in France. In France the existing "obi" - markets belong to the French Leroy Merlin Baumarktgruppe.
With Obi@Otto Obi a co-operation with the petrol dispatch was received in Hamburg. A goal is it, the advantages of a Onlineshops and an internal delivery service, Hermes logistics group to link with the usual Obi assortment. The customer is not dependent thus to visit a market in his proximity but can from at home order.
In addition Obi the Payback system is attached.
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