The Dutch online retailer Wehkamp strokes around ten percent of its positions. The company announced on Monday that 103 of the 1100 jobs will be lost. Most of them concern the headquarters in the Dutch city of Zwolle and the office of the own brand in Hilversum. This reported to NOS Nieuws’ intelligence service based on an internal communication of the management to the employees: inside.
Wehkamp confirms the message to Fashionunited. The company says: “As a pioneer in Dutch retail, we continuously check how we can improve our customer and business processes. This includes optimizing our cost structure and our way of working. These are necessary measures in a dynamic retail market.”
Furthermore, today (Monday, July 7, 2025), the employees were informed: Inside the Wehkamp Retail Group. With the planned changes, a maximum of 19 fixed places are lost in Zwolle and Hilversum. A total of 103 positions (around ten percent of the total workforce) are deleted, of which most are at office locations. Open places. The works council made the recommendation on July 1 of this year.
Wehkamp further reduces personnel inventory
NOS notes that Wehkamp reduced its number of employees from 1158 to 948 within two years. The Dutch Rundfunk writes that the job cuts have become necessary due to cost pressure. The relation between sales and expenses “got out of balance”.
The Wehkamp Retail Group BV, the parent company of Wehkamp, recorded im Fiscal year 2023/2024 a decline in sales from 663 million euros to 551.6 million euros (minus 16.8 percent). Among other things, this is on the introduction of paid returns due to. The net loss fell from 22.7 million euros to 8.4 million euros. However, the operating result improved: adjusted EBITDA rose by 29.5 percent to 26.3 million euros.
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