Galeria Kaufhof GmbH was a German department store chain, headquartered in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

. It was a member of the

International Association of Department Stores The International Association of Department Stores (IADS) is a retail trade association founded in 1928 by a group of department stores with the goal of introducing modern management methods derived from the scientific management movement to their ...

from 1930 to 2010, with various CEOs acting as presidents of the Association over time. Until 30 September 2015, the company was a subsidiary of Metro AG, when the company announced that it had been acquired by

Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada. The company's namesake business di ...

. In September 2018 they announced plans to merge with their largest competitor Karstadt. In June 2019 all the shares of Galeria Kaufhof were bought by the Austrian company Signa Holding, who been the partner in the former merger. On March 25, 2019 Karstadt & Galeria Kaufhof launched their merged company,

Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof GmbH, based in Essen, Germany, is the second largest department store group in Europe, with 131 locations and 18,000 employees. The company was formed in 2018 with the merger of two of Germany's most historic department sto ...

, based in Essen, with a new logo and a new website ''galeria.de''.

Business portfolio

*Galeria Kaufhof - 97 branches *DINEA Gastronomie GmbH - 58 restaurants * Galeria Inno - 16 stores in BelgiumGaleria Inno - History
(in French)

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* * Retail companies established in 1879 Companies based in Cologne Retail companies of Germany Department stores of Germany 1879 establishments in Germany {{Retail-company-stub