After the flagship store was closed in Spitalerstrasse in April, Görtz has now closed his last branch in Hamburg.
The business in the Europa Passage is the last location of the traditional company in its Hanseatic home. The area of the shoe dealer founded in Hamburg in 1875 will be handed over to the landlord on May 30, as a company spokesman confirmed to fashionunited. The industry magazine had previously reported textile industry on the closure.
“The decision on how every single area is used in the future and to who it will be rented is solely with the landowners: Interior. The management of the Europa Passage has decided to rent the area used by Görtz otherwise,” said a spokesman for the provisional insolvency administrator Dr. Gideon Böhm.
The employees of the Hamburg location are to be used in the remaining North German branches in Lübeck and Oldenburg in the future. The inventory is also shifted there. Wages and salaries of the employees are paid from the ongoing sales proceeds from the opened branches.
The background to the closure is the renewed bankruptcy proceedings of the shoe branchist. Görtz Retail GmbH applied for a preliminary bankruptcy proceedings from the Hamburg District Court in January. According to the insolvency administrator, the investor process, which was launched as part of the preliminary insolvency administration, will continue on the basis of numerous expression of interest. Inquiries to take over branches would be forwarded directly to the respective landlords: inside.