Globetrotter Ausrüstung celebrates the opening of its branch in

Globetrotter Ausrüstung celebrates
the opening of its branch in Dresden!
We’ve reached the summit!
On 3 September 2011, Globetrotter Ausrüstung will celebrate
the opening of the completely refurbished branch on Prager
Strasse (formerly Peek & Cloppenburg). Following the team’s
move to a temporary base in the Florentinum complex in the
spring, the Hamburg outdoor specialist is now opening
Dresden’s largest outdoor and travel store across four floors
and a total of 6,200 square metres.
Press release
Dresden, 02.09.2011
No. 9/2011
Press spokesperson Dresden
Michael Bärisch
+49 351 2111 00-15
[email protected]
With a product range comprising 25,000 items from around 700
manufacturers, our customers can find everything they need in
the travel and outdoor segments on four floors, starting with
functional clothing and shoes to tents, bags, rucksacks and
sleeping bags, as well as maps and books and equipment for
cycling, winter, water and mountaineering.
Globetrotter Ausrüstung
Denart & Lechhart GmbH
Prager Straße 10
01069 Dresden
Equipment can be tried and tested on a 26-metre-long and 12metre-high overhanging climbing wall, a cold chamber with
snowstorm facility and our rain chamber. The corridor on the
third floor is ideal for breaking in new shoes. Dresden’s largest
travel bookshop is also located on this floor on a total of 430
square metres and has 25,000 titles available to browse.
Press release:
www.globetrotter.de/dd_pm_eng
On the first floor, there is a 160-square-metre canoeing basin
with counter current for testing sailing boats, kayaks and
canoes. During the cold winter months, Dresden’s skiing
specialists will also offer a comprehensive range of winter sports
equipment on this floor. The second floor has a children’s area
comprising 400 square metres, where little ones can get kitted
out.
The Yeti Manufactory Dresden is one of the main attractions of
our shop. On a surface area of 220 square metres, the traditional
Görlitz-based business Yeti, which is a specialist in high-quality
down items, has a glass-encased production facility that
customers can access freely. Customers can follow each
individual step of the customised manufacture of their down
sleeping bag, from supply of the down to the last stitch.
A special designated area of 170 square metres offers outdoor
companies the opportunity to present their wares for a year.
From March 2012, the Swedish firm Haglöfs will present their
high-quality products here. During the winter months,
presentations and lectures by well-known speakers will take
place every Friday in our event area. A travel agency and a
travel clinic complete the offer.
Press images to download:
www.globetrotter.de/dd_pics
Online press area:
www.globetrotter.de/presse
Additonal information
Background to Globetrotter Dresden
The Globetrotter branch on Prager Strasse belongs to the Hamburg company Globetrotter
Ausrüstung, which has been present in Dresden since May 1990. The first branch was
located on Rähnitzgasse and comprised a surface area of 200 square metres. This branch
employed three permanent employees and one temporary employee. A year later, the
company moved to the Dresdner Sporthaus on Pirnaischen Platz, which had a larger sales
space of 600 square metres. On 1 April 1998, Globetrotter moved to the World Trade
Center, which had a sales space of approx. 2,400 square metres. On 18 April 2011, the
new Dresden branch on Prager Strasse opened. At the start, only the ground floor was
open to customers, but the store was expanded to the first floor on 25 July 2011. All
renovations and refurbishments have now been completed and Globetrotter will open its
new 6,200-square-metre store in Dresden on 3 September.
Renovation costs of ten million euros
The former Peek & Cloppenburg building was completely redesigned. A new spatial
concept was conceived, with the three above-ground floors featuring a cut-out section to
create an atrium. The sales space available comprises 6,200 square metres and stretches
across four floors. Globetrotter Ausrüstung and landlord AXA Investment Managers
Deutschland GmbH invested ten million euros in the new store. The Hamburg architect
Prof. Holger Moths was responsible for the planning and realisation of this unique outdoor
shop. With the redesign of this sales space in the Florentinum complex, he has once again
set new benchmarks in exceptional shop design. He also managed the renovation of the
Globetrotter branches in Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne and Munich.
Double the number of employees
Before 31 July 2011, Globetrotter Dresden employed 55 people. On 1 August 2011, this
number was doubled, meaning that the team now comprises 110 members. Globetrotter
Ausrüstung’s recipe for success is its motivated service- and advice-oriented team. The
salespeople are experienced travellers themselves and they form the heart and soul of
our successful company – authentic and trustworthy people who identify with the
Globetrotter Ausrüstung philosophy and who also participate in the various types of
outdoor sports themselves.
The company
Globetrotter Ausrüstung was founded in Hamburg in 1979 by world globetrotters and
survival experts Klaus Denart and Peter Lechhart. Since 1989 and 1991 respectively,
Andreas Bartmann and Thomas Lipke have been managing partners. With a turnover of
230 million euros in the 2010/11 business year, Globetrotter is a market leader within the
European outdoor industry. Today, Globetrotter Ausrüstung has seven branches in
Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Frankfurt, Bonn, Cologne and Munich, giving it a total retail
space of 31,700 square metres. Fifty-five per cent of the company’s turnover is achieved
here. Forty-five per cent is generated by mail order, 80 per cent of which is via the
Internet. The company currently employs approximately 1,500 employees from 60
different countries.
Facts about Globetrotter Ausrüstung
Dresden branch:
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Highlights:
Saturday, 3 September 2011 at 10 a.m.
Prager Strasse 10, 01069 Dresden
Tel.: +49 (0)351 495 2116
Email: [email protected]
Monday to Saturday 10 a.m.–8 p.m.
From main station with trams 8, 9 and 11 to Prager
Strasse stop, parking on Ferdinandplatz and in the
Centrum Galerie car park
Ronald Höpfner
approx. 110
6,200 square metres across four floors
Seven million euros own capital, three million euros
from landlord AXA Investment Managers Deutschland
GmbH
Yeti Manufactory Dresden, travel clinic operated by
Berlin Centre for Travel and Tropical Medicine, Summit
Travel Agency
26-metre-long and 12-metre-high overhanging climbing
wall, cold chamber with snowstorm facility, rain
chamber and rain oasis, 430-square-metre travel
bookshop with 25,000 titles, 160-square-metre
canoeing basin with counter current, 400-square-metre
children’s area with experience trail, special area, event
area for approx. 200 people
The company:
Company founders:
Klaus Denart and Peter Lechhart
Year of foundation:
1979 in Hamburg
Managing Directors:
Andreas Bartmann and Thomas Lipke
Total retail space:
31,700 square metres
Turnover 2010/11:
230 million euros
Total number of employees: approx. 1,500
Three mainstays:
Branches in seven major cities, mail order, online shop
Shops:
Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin, Dresden, Frankfurt, Bonn, Munich
Handbook:
Published once a year, comprises over 700 pages,
circulation: 1,200,000 copies, also summer special, autumn
and winter catalogue
Range:
25,000 items from around 700 manufacturers
Events:
Event calendar in every branch, published twice a year
4-Seasons:
Customer magazine, published four times a year. With
400,000 copies and 90 pages per edition, it is an outdoor
magazine with the highest circulation in Europe
4-Seasons.de:
German-language outdoor portal updated daily and
four-member professional editorial team
4-Seasons.TV:
Full programme on the Internet for all outdoor, adventure and
travel fans
Cooperations partner
On 3 September, we will be pleased to welcome a complete newcomer to the new
Dresden Globetrotter branch in the Florentinum complex: Yeti in the form of the Yeti
Manufactory Dresden. Store architect Prof. Holger Moths conceived a futuristic glass
production facility for the manufacture of down products. On an area of 220 square
metres, customers will be able to visit a freely accessible manufacturing facility, enabling
them to follow every stage of production at close hand. The Görlitz-based down specialist
currently employs three people at the Dresden manufacturing facility, who fill and sew
the high-quality products, primarily down sleeping bags. These can even be customised
on request. It’s been a long way to the top of the outdoor and fashion segment for the
company: founded near Berlin in the GDR in 1983, Yeti has always stood for high down
quality. The company withstood all the changes of reunification, only to see its factory
destroyed by flooding along the River Neisse in 2010. With the support of many outdoor
fans, Yeti GmbH has fought its way back to the top. Since 2005, Yeti has been part of the
Danish company Nordisk Freizeit GmbH.
The DAV Summit Club GmbH, the mountaineering training school of the German Alpine
Association and SZ-Reisen GmbH are pooling their resources. SZ-Reisen GmbH will operate
the Summit Travel Agency as a franchise. This is located on the third floor and is
accessible to all, including those with disabilities. In addition to offers from well-known
trip organisers, Summit travel agency offers customers trips organised by SZ-Reisen and
DAV Summit Club, meaning that there are several options available for any type of
holiday imaginable. The travel agency is all about pure experience-oriented trips,
including walking, mountaineering, trekking, cycling trips and much more. This broad
palette is completed by ski and snowshoe tours, as well as expeditions to seven- and
eight-thousanders.
SZ-Reisen has an annual turnover of 12 million euros and caters for around 27,000
travellers per year, making it one of the leading suppliers of experience-oriented trips on
all continents around the globe. SZ-Reisen GmbH is part of the Dresdner Druck- und
Verlagshaus GmbH & Co. KG.
The DAV Summit Club has around 12,000 participants per year in the German-speaking
countries and is a leading provider of active mountain and cultural experiences.
Currently, customers can choose from more than 450 trips and courses in over 60
countries.
In the integrated travel clinic, run by Dr Tomas Jelinek’s Berlin Centre for Travel and
Tropical Medicine, specialist doctors inform customers about medical travel preparations
and organise all necessary vaccinations, e.g. against typhoid or malaria. The travel clinic
is located on the third floor of the Globetrotter branch in Dresden, which is also the floor
where customers can get kitted out for their trip. Customers can be seen individually by
experienced doctors without making an appointment and learn about the health risks and
necessary precautions for their own trips.
Contact details for cooperation partners
Yeti Manufactory Dresden
[email protected]
www.yetiworld.com
Production:
Tues.–Sat.: 12 noon–7 p.m.
Guided tours:
Every Saturday at 11 a.m.
Summit Travel Agency
Tel.: +49 (0)351 2135 9700
Fax: +49 (0)351 2135 9703
[email protected]
www.summit-reisebuero.de
Opening hours:
Mon.–Sat.: 10 a.m.–8 p.m.
Travel clinic operated by Berlin Centre
for Travel and Tropical Medicine
Tel.: +49 (0)30 9606 0940
[email protected]
www.bctropen.de
Opening hours:
Mon.–Fri.: 3 p.m.–7 p.m.
Sat.: 12 noon–5 p.m.