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Native name | Hagebau Handelsgesellschaft für Baustoffe mbH & Co. KG |
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| Type | GmbH & Co. KG |
| Industry | Building materials, DIY retail |
| Founded | 1964 |
| Headquarters | , Germany |
Area served | Europe |
| Revenue | €6.17 billion (2024)[1] (2024) |
| Website | www |
Hagebau is a German retailers' cooperative of independent wholesale and retail companies in the building materials, timber, tile and garden sectors. It is based in Soltau, Lower Saxony, and was founded in 1964.[2] In the 2024 financial year the group reported sales of about €6.17 billion.[1]
History
[edit]Hagebau was founded in 1964 by 34 building-materials merchants as a purchasing cooperative seated in Soltau. The first hagebaumarkt DIY store opened in 1979, taking the cooperative into retail.[2]
From 2007 to 2019 Hagebau cooperated with the Otto Group in the baumarkt direkt e-commerce joint venture. The partners ended the venture in 2019 and pursued separate online strategies.[3]
In April 2017 the supervisory board approved the integration of the ZEUS DIY systems business into Hagebau with effect from 1 January 2018, consolidating retail activities under hagebau Einzelhandel.[4]
Operations
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The cooperative covers both wholesale and retail. Retail is run as a franchise system for the hagebaumarkt and hagebau kompakt formats, supported by group services in logistics, IT and e-commerce. Trade reporting put the number of shareholding merchants at about 356 in 2023.[5]
Group sales were €7.67 billion in 2022 and €6.56 billion in 2023.[6] The cooperative attributed the lower 2024 figure largely to a restructuring that ended intra-group resale, with its underlying goods business roughly stable at about €5.99 billion.[1]
In 2019 Hagebau introduced hageworX, an in-store DIY workshop concept, first piloted in Hanover.[7]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "hagebau: Gesellschafterversammlung 2025". Gabot (in German). 28 June 2025. Retrieved 18 June 2026.
- 1 2 "Unternehmen – hagebau Gruppe" (in German). Hagebau. Retrieved 18 June 2026.
- ↑ "Hagebau and Otto to end their online collaboration". DIY International (in German). Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ↑ EUWID Holz und Möbel (13 April 2017). "Zeus wird zum Jahresanfang 2018 in Hagebau integriert". www.euwid-holz.de (in German).
- ↑ "Hagebau auf Expansionskurs". Lebensmittel Zeitung (in German). 5 July 2024. Retrieved 18 June 2026.
- ↑ "Hagebau verzeichnet 2023 zweistelligen Umsatzrückgang". baumarktmanager (in German). 1 July 2024. Retrieved 18 June 2026.
- ↑ "Hagebau startet in Hannover erste Kundenwerkstatt". diy – Fachmagazin für die Baumarkt- und Gartenbranche (in German). 17 September 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2026.