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Florian Müller will take over the management of Otto Golze & Söhne GmbH on 1 October 2022. Main shareholder Ekkehart Golze will assist the company in the future as a member of the board of directors and shareholder. "I am very pleased that our paths have crossed and that I can hand over the responsibility of our family business, which will be 150 years old next year, into the hands of Mr. Müller," says Golze about the change in management. Florian Müller, a sales and marketing professional, was most recently Vice President Home & Business at Hailo.
The expansion of the XXXLutz Group continues. The Austrian furniture group has announced a 50% stake in Braun Möbel-Center. Braun operates 10 furniture stores in the south and south-west of Germany. With a good 1,000 employees, Braun is targeting a turnover of over EUR 200 million for 2022. "The newly acquired businesses are an ideal fit for the XXXL concept and are market leaders at their locations thanks to their superior selection," explains Thomas Saliger, company spokesman for the XXXLutz Group.
The two experts on Tibetan carpets Franz Xaver Erhard and Thomas Wild are organising a Tibetan Carpet Weekend from 14 to 16 October 2022. The context will be the ongoing exhibition "Drumze" of the carpet museum Schloß Voigtsberg. In addition to a curated tour of the exhibition, there will be a series of lectures. Speakers include the two organisers, as well as Ruper Smith, Michael Buddebert and Birgit Voß.
Messe Frankfurt's Heimtextil, Techtextil and Texprocess textile fairs will start under new management in future. Bettina Bär will be responsible for the home textiles segment at Heimtextil from 15 September 2022. She succeeds Sabine Scharrer, who will take over the position of Show Director of the leading international trade fairs Techtextil and Texprocess and Brand Management.
Despite the unstable economic climate, Einrichtungspartnerring VME was able to close the 2021 business year with a net profit of 15.54 million euros and a centrally regulated turnover of 1.588 billion euros. The Bielefeld-based full-service association announced the figures after the shareholders' meeting at the beginning of September. The result corresponds to an increase of a good 20 percent compared to the previous year and a payout ratio of 1.25 percent. At shareholder level, 2021 was also a good year for the VME: 13 new companies joined, compared to only one leaving, which was due to a business going out of business.
The Swiss high quality carpet supplier Mischioff presents its current collections in a new main catalogue. On 164 pages, the two managing directors and designers Dani and Sascha Misio present a versatile selection of designs from their collections. In addition to the collections, the main catalogue also contains information about the company, the design work, the production of the carpets, the range of services and the fair trade label Step.