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Closed GmbH is a German
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which has produced
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and other clothes{{cite web , url=http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/heading-to-the-exit-7285399?src=nl/mornReport/20131121 , title=Kostas Murkudis Exiting German Brand Closed , publisher=WWD , date=21 November 2013 , accessdate=21 November 2013 , author=Quinto, Norma since 1978. Besides Germany, Closed products are available in its more than 35 stores that are mostly in Italy, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain, Russia, and the USA.


Company history

The company was founded in 1975 in France by Marithé and François Girbaud under the name “Ca”. Shortly afterwards, a
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by C&A, who felt their
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rights had been violated, put an end to Ca. Today, the company, under the name Closed, is based in
Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...
. In 2009, Closed GmbH had 140 members of staff. At the beginning of the 1990s, Hamburg business partners Günther Giers and Hans-Joachim Leplow purchased the company and sold it in 2004 together with the brand to Günther Giers’ son Gordon and his
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s Til Nadler and Hans Redlefsen. In 2009, managing directors Giers, Nadler, and Redlefsen received the “Hamburger Unternehmer des Jahres” award ( Entrepreneur of the year) from the marketing boards “Die Familienunternehmer – ASU” and “ Die jungen Unternehmer – BJU”. In 2012, Kostas Murkudis was appointed
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to raise Closed's international profile. He left in 2013 due to creative differences. Gordon Giers is the current
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. Closed was the creator of the
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production process and the x-pocket jean, they also had a popular model of pedal pushers, which combined have sold more than 30 million pairs.Artikel in Welt Online vom 20. November 2009
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