dm-drogerie markt

dm-drogerie markt

Type	GmbH & Co. KG
Industry	Retail
Founded	1973
Headquarters	Karlsruhe, Germany
Number of locations	3,349 (October 201k7)[1]
Key people	Erich Harsch, Götz Werner
Revenue	10.3 billion Euro (FY 2017)
Number of employees	56,500 (2017)
Website	www.dm.de

dm-drogerie markt is a chain of retail stores headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, that sells cosmetics, healthcare items, household products and health food.

In its industry sector, dm-drogerie markt is Germany's largest retailer measured by revenues.^[2]

The company has flat hierarchies; social commitment ranks high. For its founder Götz Werner, the wellbeing of employees is more important than the company's return.^[3]

As of September 2016 dm has 3 349^[1] stores in twelve European countries. In 1970s dm only had outlets in Germany and Austria. In 1990s it opened stores in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia and Croatia. In 2000s the company expanded to Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Italy as well.^[1]

In March 2017, for the first time in its history, dm-drogerie markt started to sell to consumers outside Europe with an Alibaba Tmall Global cross-border flagship store to China.^[4] This expansion was initiated and is managed by a Shanghai-based Tmall Partner Web2Asia.

Stores by countries

Country	Year of entering the market	Number of stores
Austria	1976	391
Bosnia-Herzegovina	2006	67
Bulgaria	2009	71
Croatia	1996	157
Czech Republic	1993	224
Germany	1973	1892
Hungary	1993	259
Italy	2017	8
Macedonia	2012	13
Romania	2007	94
Serbia	2004	89
Slovakia	1995	139
Slovenia	1993	78
Egypt	1977	81

See also

• Rossmann
• Müller
• Douglas

References