Shoes always have been and always will be central to our business. This is true for the entire Group. And for every single one of our brands.
Shoes are our passion. Our motivation. Our life.
We are shoes. And we are so much more:
a family-owned company and Europe’s biggest footwear retailer with a great instinct for consumer trends and requirements. Some 49,000 employees work on our various specialist concepts and brands in 34 countries around the world. Open-mindedness and mutual respect are as fundamental to us as the promotion of creativity, flexibility, responsibility and personal development. We are more than a company.
Heinrich Deichmann opened a shoemaker’s store in Essen-Borbeck.
Market launch of factory-made shoes. The majority of customers were miners and their families.
The first DEICHMANN store exclusively selling shoes opened in Essen.
DEICHMANN opened its first store outside Essen in Düsseldorf.
Take-over of Swiss shoe retail chain DOSENBACH. Followed by RACK ROOM SHOES in the USA in 1984 and vanHaren in the Netherlands in 1985. In 1992, they were joined by OCHSNER SPORT in Austria and Switzerland.
DEICHMANN was the first company in Germany to sell shoes in an online shop.
The sneaker and streetwear brand SNIPES became part of the DEICHMANN Group.
Construction work on a new DEICHMANN Campus began in Essen.
DEICHMANN SE in Essen is the parent company of the DEICHMANN Group.
SNIPES is the retail chain for streetwear and trainers. It was founded in 1998 and is based in Cologne.
DOSENBACH sells shoes, accessories and sporting goods in Switzerland. It has its headquarters in Dietikon.
vanHaren is a well-known Dutch footwear retailer with many decades of experience and expertise. It is based in Waalwijk.
The American shoe retailer based in Charlotte, North Carolina has 500 stores in 36 US states.
solebox was established in Berlin in 2002 and has stores in Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Brussels, Barcelona and Amsterdam.
supremo is a shoe supplier that operates throughout Europe. Thanks to its footwear and trend expertise, its shoes can be found at all well-known shoe retail stores.
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