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| Website | ahlers-ag.com |
Ahlers AG was a listed manufacturer of men's fashion. The company was headquartered in Herford-Elverdissen.
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Ahlers AG was a listed manufacturer of men's fashion. The company was headquartered in Herford-Elverdissen.
Ahlers was founded in 1919 by Adolf Ahlers in Jever as a cloth wholesaler. After moving to Oldenburg i.O. in 1925, a production plant was opened in Herford-Elverdissen in 1932 and the headquarters were relocated there.
An underwear factory was built in Herford in 1936. During the period of "Aryanization" in 1938, Adolf Ahlers took over the operations of Elsbach in Herford, the largest textile company in Europe at the time. The Jewish Elsbach family was forced to sell the shares in their company to Ahlers for far less than they were worth. The former managing director, Kurt Elsbach, sought refuge from the Nazis abroad. [1] [2] [3] The company was renamed "Herforder Wäschefabriken AG" by Ahlers. [4]
The former managing director Kurt Elsbach, who had fled abroad, returned to the company in 1947, but died in 1954. [2] From 1952, the company was again called "Elsbach Wäschefabriken AG". The shares were returned to the Elsbach family. Ahlers remained a shareholder, acquired the entire company in 1964 and converted it into a limited liability company. Jan A. Ahlers, son of the company founder, took over the management from his father Adolf Ahlers in 1968 and expanded the company into an internationally active group. In 1979, the company's own production facility was relocated to Sri Lanka. [5] In 1987, Jan A. Ahlers floated the company on the stock exchange. Stella A. Ahlers, the founder's granddaughter, has managed the company since 2005.
In April 2023, Ahlers AG filed for insolvency proceedings for itself and some of its subsidiaries. [6] In mid-June, the Röther Group announced that it would take over the Pierre Cardin, Baldessarini, Pioneer Jeans and Pionier workwear brands and that around 300 jobs would be lost. [7] Röther closed all Ahlers stores and the brands' online stores. The management subsequently announced that the brands would be bundled and continued in a new holding company called R. Brand Group within Röther. The takeover was completed in August 2023. [8]
Ahlers sold clothing from five brands for different target groups and price segments. The company held licenses for these brands and owned the other brands:
At the end of November 2021, Ahlers operated a total of 115 retail stores, 23 of which were operated by the company itself. Partners operated a total of 92 stores as of November 30, 2021, mainly in Eastern Europe. The Pierre Cardin and Baldessarini brands are also sold via the company's own online stores. [11]
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In der Zeit der nationalsozialistischen Diktatur wurde die Familie zunehmend schikaniert, immer weniger Kunden fanden den Weg zum Elsbach-Unternehmen. Die jüdische Eigentümer-Familie musste ihre Anteile an der Firma 1938 verkaufen, der Betrieb wurde von Adolf Ahlers übernommen. Der frühere Chef Kurt Elsbach konnte fliehen, seine Schwester Käte Maass, geborene Elsbach, wurde zusammen mit ihrem Mann im Konzentrationslager (KZ) ermordet. Nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurde Kurt Elsbach wieder in die Geschäftsleitung der Firma aufgenommen, er starb jedoch im Jahr 1954. Die erstatteten Anteile an der Firma wurden an Ahlers verkauft.
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