The Central Hessian University City of Gießen loses a traditional company. The Darré shoe store in the central shopping street Seltersweg hired the company on December 31 after over 90 years.
In a “personal statement” on the company’s website, Heinz-Jörg Ebert, the owner and managing director of Schuhhaus Darré GmbH & Co KG, justified the step, among other things with the adverse framework. “For a family-run stand-alone shoe store on a sales area of 800 square meters including a large basement and an area of 1,800 square meters to be cultivated, it became more uneconomical every year,” he wrote. In addition to the general problems in the industry, the company had also had a number of blows of fate – including water damage and a hacker attack – in recent years.
Another reason for the business task was the “non -existent successor perspectives”, explained Ebert. “I have failed to keep my long efforts for a successor to the industry or the textile sector,” admitted the 64 -year -old entrepreneur.