The company Anton SCHLECKER, based from Anton Schlecker in the year 1975 - with seat in the Swabian Ehingen - is at present European-wide market leader in the drugstore assortment.

Enterprise history

Up to the establishment of Schlecker worked Anton Schlecker in the butcher's shop of its father, which covered altogether eight branches. When 1974 the application of fixed prices was omitted, it used the chance and opened in Kirchheim under Teck its first drugstore market. "The singular beginning of a success history", so Ehingens mayor Johann Krieger. Gradually Schlecker expands Germany far, starting from 1987 also European-wide. To Austria 1989 the market entrance into the Netherlands and Spain followed, 1991 in France. In the year 1999 the expansion took place to Italy, 2004 to Poland and Denmark.

After over 1000 newly opened branches 2004 Schlecker will open also further new markets for 2005 and 2006. After the first branches in Tschechien and Hungary were already opened, the focus is directed also toward the remaining new countries (Poland, Denmark), which were already opened. In addition, one expands in the "old" countries further strongly.

Within 10 years the conversion of Schlecker doubled itself on 6.6 billion euro in the financial year 2004/2005. The profit is traditionally not published, since Schlecker is not obligated to it. However Insider assume that the balance proves annually more than 200 million euro alone at ready money.

2005 took over Schlecker 91 branches of the drugstore chain idea - the green drugstore of REWE and integrated the taken over business into the own branch network. REWE sold the remaining 37 idea branches to the chain DM drugstore market.

Enterprise data

Schlecker busily European-wide approximately 50,200 coworkers and is thus the largest drugstore market enterprise of the world. In Germany and abroad European it gives over 13.750 licking he markets:

• 10.780 in Germany
• 1.240 in Austria
• 1.000 in Spain
• 300 in the Benelux countries
• 220 in France
• 180 in Italy
• 43 in Denmark
• 31 in Poland
• 4 in Tschechien

On average Schlecker leads sales area a drugstore assortment of approximately 4,000 articles on 200 m

Future

Schlecker is in Germany according to own data market leader under the drugstore markets with a market share of 70%, 41% according to neutral observers. Largest competitor is DM drugstore market and behind it Rossmann. By the hard competition under these three the conversions of different licking he markets partly stagnated in the last years according to estimate of market watchers. In order to work against this problem, Schlecker starts a location optimization program, with which approximately 1000 smaller turnover-weak branches are closed and new more profitable branches are opened. However the licking inheriting rubbing advice criticizes this program, since already one quit to coworkers or the notice threatens. A licking he speaker rejects the information however as unfounded, since it comes to the locking of branches, but settled around the number of the locking alone in the year 2004 already 272 new sales offices opened and the person employed appropriate assumption offers for the new markets was submitted is. In addition Schlecker maintains 5 self-service department stores in the region Ehingen as well as butcher's shop branches on the Swabian Alb, in upper swabia and in the year 2000 the Onlineshop Schlecker Homeshopping was opened. Starting from a purchase order value of 15 "€ Schlecker supplies free of charge according to own data concerning 120.000 articles to the customer. Particularly for it 2004 a new logistics center close Ehingen mountain were taken in enterprise. According to own data the Home Shopping camp is the most modern camp Europas.Die expansion for some years from the cash flow is self-financed.

Criticism

Schlecker stands due to its conditions of work in the criticism of the trade unions. Because of insufficient safety precautions and small staff licking he branches will more frequently attack than other chains.

The drugstore chain Schlecker offered and must digital photo work for the disadvantage of competitors for inadmissible Dumpingpreisen for it penalty pay. That communicated the Federal Cartel Office on 1 September 2005 in Bonn.

The Austrian trade union federation raises substantial reproaches against Schlecker because of offences against the industrial law.

Other drugstore chains

• Other drugstore chains are Rossmann, DM drugstore market, your place and Mueller (drugstore).

Related links

• http://www.schlecker.de
• www.manager-magazin.de over the family Schlecker
• www.wams.de "Schlecker intensifies control"

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