Tag: Furniture & furnishings
Steinhoff shareholders are fighting back: the restructuring plan is in danger of failing
Steinhoff furniture The group has debts of ten billion euros. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The heavily indebted trading group Steinhoff is threatened with failure of its controversial restructuring plan. Shareholder representatives…
Online mattress retailer Emma defies consumer slump with record results
Dennis Schmoltzi (left) and Manuel Müller The founders of the online retailer Emma Sleep observe the development of new mattresses in the laboratory. Dusseldorf The online mattress retailer Emma once…
Andreas Seifert attacks Ikea
Dusseldorf, Berlin The phantom of the furniture industry strikes again: Andreas Seifert, the secretive owner of the industry giant XXXLutz, of which there is not even a photo, starts the…
XXXLutz wants to take over Home24
Home24 IPO in 2018 Philipp Kreibohm, Christoph Cordes, Marc Appelhoff and Johannes Schaback (from left) at the IPO in Frankfurt. (Photo: imago/Hannelore Förster) Berlin Less than a year ago, the…
Ikea in Shanghai: Customers flee market lockdown
People are trying to escape the lockdown The health authorities tried to prevent people from leaving the Ikea. (Photo: Twitter/Donna Wong) shanghai Chaotic scenes erupted in an Ikea store in…
H&M and Ikea launch sale in Russia
H&M in Moscow While the shops in Moscow’s Awijapark shopping center are bustling with activity these days, Ikea only sells online. (Photo: AP) Moscow H&M and Ikea are clearing their…
H&M and Ikea launch clearance sale in Russia
H&M in Moscow While the shops in Moscow’s Awijapark shopping center are bustling with activity these days, Ikea only sells online. (Photo: AP) Moscow H&M and Ikea are clearing their…
Sensoo attracts online customers with tailor-made sofas
Dusseldorf Stephan Rom can’t help with the eureka moment of a sudden business idea at the kitchen table in the student flat share. “That wasn’t the classic, romantic start-up story,”…
Designer lights: Occhio wants to break the 100 million euro mark
Occhio founder Axel Meise (left) and CEO Benno Zerlin With its high-quality light sources, the Munich-based company benefited from the trend towards interior design during the pandemic. (Photo: Occhio) Frankfurt…
Luxury furniture: guerrilla marketing at Möbel Hartmann
Catherine Hartman The business graduate wants to continue the family business in the fourth generation. Dusseldorf For Katharina Hartmann, home must be a place of well-being. As a child, she…
Start-ups develop furniture for the home office
Cologne The Germans’ love-hate relationship with working from home gave Katharina Hamma an idea. “The trend is irreversible, everyone is currently defining their optimal work mix – but the furniture…
Start-ups develop furniture for the home office
Cologne The Germans’ love-hate relationship with working from home gave Katharina Hamma an idea. “The trend is irreversible, everyone is currently defining their optimal work mix – but the furniture…
Ikea’s sustainability step backwards: CO2 emissions increased in 2021
Dusseldorf Ikea has set itself high goals on the way to more sustainability. The furniture giant wants to become climate-positive by 2030. In absolute figures, the Swedes want to reduce…
Emma Mattresses expands with hundreds of stores in China
Emma flagship store in Shanghai The company is planning a franchise chain with hundreds of stores in China. (Photo: Emma Sleep) Dusseldorf The start of mattress manufacturer Emma in China…
Home24: Online retailer buys Butlers decoration shop
Dusseldorf From the rustic coffee table to the festive Christmas dinner – at Butlers customers can find decorative items and home accessories for everything to do with the table. The…
Design brand Kartell posts record numbers in the crisis
Noviglio Claudio Luti doesn’t want to hear about the dying of the inner cities. “I’ve always had a different opinion,” says the head of the Italian design brand Kartell. Trade?…