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Vendex
Maxeda is a Dutch retail company owned by American investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) which is currently a market leader in the DIY retailing in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. When Maxeda acquired Vendex KBB (KBB = Koninklijke Bijenkorf Beheer), Maxeda owned the three most prominent Dutch department stores: Vroom & Dreesmann and De Bijenkorf, both sold in 2010, and HEMA, sold in 2007. Activities Maxeda DIY Group is the market leader in the DIY segment and has 345 stores in the Benelux and more than 7,000 employees. Most stores have a floor space of 3,000 to 5,000 m2 and carry the name Praxis in the Netherlands (195 stores) and Brico in Belgium and Luxembourg (153 stores). Annual turnover is approximately 1.3 billion. All stores have a total of more than 1 million m2 of retail space, with more than 1.5 million customers in the store and online every week. History The company was created in 1999 after a merger of Vendex (previously its largest ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philips Computers
Philips Telecommunicatie en Informatie Systemen (Philips Computers) was a subsidiary of Philips that designed and manufactured personal computers. Philips Computers was active from 1963 through 1992. Before that, Philips produced three computers between 1953 and 1956, all for internal use, PETER, STEVIN, and PASCAL. Philips Computers was mostly known for its pioneer work in optical devices (through a separate subsidiary: LMSI). Philips computers were also sold under the Magnavox brand in North America. Two instances of Philips Computers products sold under other brands are known to date. Philips computers were coupled with Philips monitors. Philips had far more success selling its monitors than its computers. Philips monitors continue being designed, produced and sold globally contemporaneously. Philips also had and has moderate success selling peripherals such as mice, keyboards and optical devices. Philips also sold and sells computer media such as diskettes and optical media ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vroom & Dreesmann
Vroom & Dreesmann (V&D) was a Dutch chain of department stores founded in 1887. In 2015, V&D operated 67 branches throughout the Netherlands, of which 64 department stores and 3 standalone locations of La Place (restaurant chain), La Place, V&D's former subsidiary restaurant chain which had in-house and standalone restaurants throughout the country. The department stores' product range included clothing and shoes, jewelry, cosmetics, books, home-entertainment products, electric goods, stationery, cards and posters, furniture and homewares. Most branches also had a La Place in-house restaurant, a travel agent and an Automated teller machine, ATM. Larger branches also had a bakery. Foundation and expansion, 1887–1972 Vroom & Dreesmann was founded in 1887 by Willem Vroom and Anton Dreesmann. The first branch opened in Weesperstraat[:nl:Weesperstraat, nl] in Amsterdam. The company expanded rapidly throughout the Netherlands until 1972. Vroom & Dreesmann hits a pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Bijenkorf
(; literally, "the beehive") is a chain of high-end department stores in the Netherlands, with its flagship store on Dam Square in Amsterdam. The chain is owned by Selfridges Group, owner also of Britain's Selfridges and Ireland's Brown Thomas and Arnotts. It was a member of the International Association of Department Stores from 1929 to 2012, with various CEOs acting as president of the Association. History De Bijenkorf was founded in 1870 by Simon Philip Goudsmit (1845-1889), starting as a small haberdashery shop at 132 Nieuwendijk, one of Amsterdam's oldest streets and to this day a main shopping street. Initially limited to yarn and ribbons, and employing a staff of four, the stock expanded gradually. After the death of Goudsmit in 1889, Goudsmit's widow expanded the business with the help of a cousin, Arthur Isaac, and her son Alfred, eventually buying adjacent buildings. In 1909, these connecting shops were replaced by a new building. That same year, a tem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HEMA (store)
HEMA (; originally an acronym for ''Hollandsche Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij Amsterdam'', "Standard Price Company of Holland, Amsterdam"), is a Dutch variety chain store. The chain is characterized by relatively low pricing of Generic brand, generic household goods, which are mostly made by and for the chain itself, often with an original design. The owner is Dutch billionaire Marcel Boekhoorn, who has lost control to bondholders. History The first HEMA opened in Amsterdam on 4 November 1926, set up by the owners of the luxury department store De Bijenkorf. Originally, as a price-point retailer at prime locations in town centres, goods were sold using standard prices (hence its name), with everything having a standard price of 10, 25 or 50 cents, and later also 75 and 100 cents. The relative economic boom in the Netherlands in the History of the Netherlands (1900–present), period 1900–1930 benefited HEMA. During World War II, a number of Jews, Jewish employees (there was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dixons (Netherlands)
Dixons is a Dutch chain of stores specialising in what it refers to as leisure time electronics. This means that Dixons does not sell products like washing machines or televisions but does provide things like digital cameras, PC's, MP3 players, gaming consoles and mobile phones. Originally launched by Dixons of the United Kingdom (now Dixons Carphone plc) as nothing more than Netherlands-based branches of the British electrical store Dixons (UK), Dixons, the Dutch arm of the company was sold to Amsterdam-based company Maxeda, Vendex KBB (now Maxeda) in the 1970s. They changed the store format to what it is now, before selling the company to Dexcom in 2006. There are now over 180 Dixons stores in the Netherlands. The Dutch-based Dixons no longer has any affiliation with Dixons Carphone. In 2011 Dexcom was taken over by Basgroup. On 29 September 2015 Basgroup went into administrative receivership. Shortly thereafter, on 5 October it was declared bankrupt. On 12 October, Relevant H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brico
Brico is a Belgian hardware store chain. The chain focuses mainly on DIY items but also sells garden-related articles. The chain has 140 locations (as of February 2016) spread over Belgium, about 95 of which are franchised. History The first store opened in 1973 in Schoten. The name Brico comes from the French ''bricoler'', which means ''to do DIY''. During the 1980s, Brico produced two brands of its own, namely Stop and Bricobi. Currently, these brands are known as Central Park and Sencys. Until 2002, Brico was part of the GIB Group, which was sold to the Dutch Vendex (currently Maxeda). Maxeda also owns the Hardware store chains Praxis and Formido. Former locations of Leroy Merlin in Belgium have become part of Brico NV and have been reformed and renamed Plan-It. These stores focus mainly on larger DIY and decoration projects. In 2006, the first Brico City shops were opened. These are smaller stores in the city centers (Antwerp, Brussels, Liege, Ghent Ghent ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Sträter
Claudia Sträter is a Dutch women's fashion brand and retailer headquartered in Diemen near Amsterdam with stores in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. History Founded ini 1970 as the merger of Claudia Mode (a trade name of ''Modehuizen Wigi'') from Utrecht and ''Modehuis Sträter'' from the Kalverstraat in Amsterdam. Joop Witteveen was the first director. In 1974 Claudia Sträter was made part of Vroom & Dreesmann. In 1978 the company was sold to Vendex, later Maxeda Maxeda is a Dutch retail company owned by American investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) which is currently a market leader in the DIY retailing in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. When Maxeda acquired Vendex KBB (KBB = .... Designer Jan Taminiau designed a special collection for the label in 2007. Claudia Sträter was from 2012 until 2020 a part of the Belgian company FNG NV. In 2013 international expansion began. In 2017 Claudia Sträter had 29 sortes of which 5 in Belgium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety Stores
A variety store (also five and dime (historic), pound shop, or dollar store) is a retail store that sells general merchandise, such as apparel, auto parts, dry goods, toys, household hardware, hardware, furniture, and a selection of groceries. It usually sells them at discounted prices, sometimes at one or several fixed price points, such as one dollar, or historically, five and ten cents. Variety stores, as a category, are different from general merchandise superstores, hypermarkets (such as those operated by Target Corporation, Target and Walmart), warehouse clubs (such as Costco), grocery stores, or department stores. Dollar stores that sell food have been alleged to create Food desert, food deserts: areas with limited access to affordable and healthy food. This is alleged to occur when dollar stores outcompete local businesses, and soon become some of the only grocery store–like businesses available in some areas. Economics Pricing and margins Some items are offered at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wittington Investments
Wittington Investments Limited is the name of two privately owned holding companies, one based in Britain, the other in Canada. Both companies are controlled by the Weston family. Through these holding companies, the Weston family control some of the biggest names in food and retail on both sides of the Atlantic, including Loblaws and Associated British Foods. British business The British business was incorporated in 1941 and is based in London, England. The company is 79.2% owned by the Garfield Weston Foundation, one of the United Kingdom's largest grant-making trusts, which was established in 1958 by Canadian businessman W. Garfield Weston (1898–1978), and 20.8% owned by members of the prominent Weston family. As of 5 April 2008, the trustees of the Garfield Weston Foundation valued their 79.2% stake in Wittington Investments at £3.62 billion. Wittington Investments owns 54.5% of Associated British Foods, one of the largest food companies in the world and the parent com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Capital Partners
Sun Capital Partners, Inc., is an American private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts. Sun Capital was founded in 1995 by Marc J. Leder and Rodger Krouse, former classmates at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and investment banking, investment bankers at Lehman Brothers. History Sun Capital originally formed Emerald through a corporate carveout of food ingredients and industrial specialties divisions of Lubrizol. In 2015, Sun Capital sold Point Blank Enterprises. Sun Capital originally assembled Point Blank's assets through bankruptcy auction processes. In 2016, ''The Wall Street Journal'' reported that Sun Capital had returned more than 18 times its investment in Critical Flow Solutions after doubling the portfolio company's earnings in less than two years. Sun originally formed Critical Flow in 2015 in a corporate carveout of three business units from Curtiss-Wright Corporation. ''The Wall Street Journal'' subsequently reported that Sun Capita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curaçao
Curaçao, officially the Country of Curaçao, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located in the southern Caribbean Sea (specifically the Dutch Caribbean region), about north of Venezuela. Curaçao includes the main island of Curaçao and the much smaller, uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao ("Little Curaçao"). Curaçao has a population of 158,665 (January 2019 estimate), with an area of ; its capital is Willemstad. Together with Aruba and Bonaire, Curaçao forms the ABC islands (Leeward Antilles), ABC islands. Collectively, Curaçao, Aruba, and other Dutch islands in the Caribbean are often called the Dutch Caribbean. It is the largest of the ABC islands in terms of area, as well as in terms of population, and is the largest in the Dutch Caribbean. The island's name "Curaçao" may originate from the indigenous autonym of its people; this idea is supported by early Spanish accounts referring to the inhabitants as Indios Curaçaos. Curaç ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
