Otto GmbH
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| Type | Private |
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| Genre | Mail order |
| Predecessor | Otto Versand |
| Headquarters | Hamburg, Germany |
| Key people | Michael Otto |
| Website | www.ottogroup.com/ |
The Otto group or Otto (GmbH & Co KG) (formerly Otto Versand) is the world's largest mail order company, operating in more than 20 countries. The family of executive board chairman Michael Otto owns the majority of the company. The company is based in Hamburg, Germany.
They were the former owners of Spiegel, Inc., (the parent company of Eddie Bauer and former owners of Spiegel catalog), which filed for bankruptcy on March 17, 2003. On May 25, 2005, Spiegel, Inc., emerged from bankruptcy renamed Eddie Bauer Holdings and is now owned primarily by Commerzbank. The Otto Group no longer has any stake in the company.
[edit] Subsidiaries
Individual companies of the Otto Group:
- 3 Suisses International Group
- Actebis Group
- Baur Group
- Heine Group
- Crate and Barrel
- Hanseatic Bank
- bonprix Group
- Hermes Logistik Group
- EOS Group
- Fegro/Selgros
- OTTO (individual company)
- OTTO Doosan Mail Order
- OTTO Freizeit und Touristik Group
- OTTO Sumisho Group
- OTTO UK (Grattan/Freemans)
- Schwab Group
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Coordinates: 53°36′3.17″N 10°4′21.12″E / 53.6008806°N 10.0725333°E
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