Imerco

Last updated
Imerco
TypePrivate
IndustryRetail
Founded1928
Headquarters,
Key people
Frederik Brønnum(CEO) Niels Heering(chairman)
RevenueDKK 1,100 million
Number of employees
+1,100 (2014))
Website www.imerco.dk

Imerco is a Danish chain of 155 independent homeware shops.

Contents

History

Imerco was founded in 1928. [1] In 2007, M. Goldschmidt Capital acquired an 82 & shares of the company. In August 2016, it was announced that Imerco will merge with the competing homeware chain Inspiration. [2]

Organisation

As of 2016, Imerco consisted of 155 independent homeware shops. The company also has a web store and a customer club with more than one million members. Frederik Brønnum took over the position as CEO in 2+13.

M. Goldschmidt Capital owns 84 & of the company. On the completion of the merger with Inspiration, M. Goldschmidt Capital will own 65 % and Niels Thorborg-owned 3C Retail will own 28 %.

Products

Imerco owns the brands Cook & Baker, CASA and Erik Bagger. [1]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Morrisons</span> British supermarket chain

Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited, trading as Morrisons, is the fifth largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom. As of 2021, the company had 497 supermarkets across England, Wales and Scotland, and one in Gibraltar. The company is headquartered in Bradford, England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marshalls</span> American multinational discount department store chain owned by TJX Companies

Marshalls is an American chain of off-price department stores owned by TJX Companies. Marshalls has over 1,000 American stores, including larger stores named Marshalls Mega Store, covering 49 states and Puerto Rico, and 61 stores in Canada. Marshalls first expanded into Canada in March 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ICA Gruppen</span> Swedish retail franchise

ICA Gruppen AB (publ) (Swedish pronunciation:[ˈîːka]; "ICA Group"; from Inköpscentralernas aktiebolag, lit.'"the Purchasing Centres' Corporation"') (formerly Hakon Invest AB) is a Swedish retailer franchise with a focus on food and health. The group also owns a bank, real estate division and a pharmacy chain.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">British Home Stores</span> Former British department store chain

British Home Stores, commonly abbreviated to BHS and latterly legally styled BHS Ltd, was a British department store chain, primarily selling clothing and household items. In its later years, the company began to expand into furniture, electronics, entertainment, convenience groceries and fragrance and beauty products.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">.dk</span> Internet country-code top level domain for Denmark

.dk is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Denmark. The supervision of the .dk top-level domain is handled exclusively by Punktum dk. Any new .dk domain name has to be applied for via an approved registrar. Then the domain name applicant can ask the registrar to manage their domain name or have it managed directly by the Punktum dk. Registrations of domain names with the characters æ, ø, å, ö, ä, ü, é, and ẞ are also allowed.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wakefern Food Corporation</span> Cooperative group of supermarkets in the United States

Wakefern Food Corporation is an American company that was founded in 1946 and is based in Keasbey, New Jersey. It is the largest retailers' cooperative group of supermarkets and the fourth-largest cooperative of any kind in the United States. Wakefern was the largest private employer in New Jersey in 2018, with 40,200 employees. As of 2022, Wakefern has fifty member companies who own and operate 365 supermarkets, under the ShopRite, Price Rite Marketplace, The Fresh Grocer, Dearborn Market, Gourmet Garage, and Fairway Market brands in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Virginia.

Habitat, is a brand of household furnishings in the United Kingdom and the main homewares brand within the Sainsbury's group.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fenwick (department store)</span> British department store chain

Fenwick is an independent chain of department stores in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1882 by John James Fenwick in Newcastle upon Tyne, and today consists of nine branches. It was a member of the International Association of Department Stores from 1988 to 2010.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wilko</span> British retail chain

Wilko Limited, formerly Wilkinson Cash Stores Limited, Wilkinson Hardware Stores, Limited, and Wilko Retail Limited, was a British high-street retail chain which sold homewares and household goods. The company was founded in Leicester by James Kemsey Wilkinson in 1930, and remained in the ownership of the founding family.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Reject Shop</span> Australian discount variety store chain

The Reject Shop Limited is an Australian discount variety store chain selling a range of goods such as food, snacks, gift cards and party, health and beauty aids, cleaning supplies, storage, kitchenware, homewares and seasonal items in 375 store locations across Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Briscoe Group</span> New Zealand retail company

Briscoe Group is a New Zealand retail chain. It has 92 stores throughout New Zealand trading under the Briscoes Homeware (48) and Rebel Sport (44) nameplates.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edcon</span> South African retail company

Edcon Limited was a retail company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Its subsidiaries included Edgars, a department store with 203 branches. In 2020, the Competition Tribunal approved the sale of the Edgars division to Retailability (pty) Ltd, and Jet to The Foschini Group.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Heatons</span> Irish department store

Heatons is an Irish online retailer and former department store, established in 1946. The store specialises in fashion, homeware and sporting goods. They had 21 stores around Ireland, 20 in the Republic of Ireland and one in the Northern Ireland town of Enniskillen. The Northern Ireland town of Downpatrick was the former home to a combined Heatons and Sports Direct store, as was Newtownabbey. Heatons has a ecommerce website which delivers to both Ireland, and Northern Ireland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dunelm Group</span> British home furnishings retailer

Dunelm Group Plc is a British home furnishings retailer operating in the United Kingdom. One of the largest homeware retailers in the UK, the company headquarters are in Syston, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Original Factory Shop</span> United Kingdom discount department store

The Original Factory Shop is a discount department store chain that was established in 1969. It currently operates almost two hundred stores across the United Kingdom.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hannaford Brothers Company</span> American supermarket chain

Hannaford is an American supermarket chain based in Scarborough, Maine. Founded in Portland, Maine, in 1883, Hannaford operates stores in New England and New York. The chain is now part of the Ahold Delhaize group based in the Netherlands, and is a sister company to formerly competing New England supermarket chain Stop & Shop.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Överskottsbolaget</span>

ÖoB is a Swedish discount store, owned by the Runsvengruppen. It sells non-perishable food and drink, health & beauty products, homewares, DIY products and garden equipment. It has over 100 stores nationwide.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">M. Goldschmidt Holding</span>

M. Goldschmidt Holding is a holding company owned by Mikael Goldschmidt and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Established in 1979, its activities mainly consist of real estate and private equity investments. It controls companies with a total of 1,350 employees and has DKK 2.3 billion in total equity (2016).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Espresso House</span> Swedish coffeehouse chain

Espresso House is the largest coffeehouse chain in the Nordic countries. The company was founded in Lund, Sweden in 1996 by Elisabet and Charles Asker. In March 2018 it reached over 460 locations throughout Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Germany.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edgars (department store)</span>

Edgars is a Johannesburg-based chain of stores present all over Southern Africa. The department store was previously selling clothing, shoes, homeware & beauty and under new leadership has recently shifted its focus to mass-market fashion and beauty products.

References

  1. 1 2 "Nyt Imerco er en bedre forretning". Finans (in Danish). Retrieved 3 September 2016.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. "Nyt Imerco og Inspiration fusionerer". Estate Media (in Danish). Retrieved 3 September 2016.