Beate Uhse Group BV

Beate Uhse Group BV
Company typePublic (FWB: USE)
IndustryRetailing
Founded1946
FounderBeate Uhse-Rotermund
Headquarters
Veendam
,
Netherlands
Area served
In more than 60 countries worldwide
ProductsSex shops
Beate Uhse shop

Beate Uhse Group BV (formerly Beate Uhse AG) is a German industry group which focuses on selling adult entertainment in the form of sex toys, lingerie, clothing and pornography. It is the most successful company in the German sex industry,[1] and the country's leading pornography retailer.[2]

It operates in the three business units Retail, Mail Order and Wholesale. The Entertainment division was sold to tmc Content Group AG in September 2016.[3]

It currently has over 1,500 employees. It is active in 60 countries and has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 1999. The company's founder, Beate Uhse-Rotermund, remained the chairwoman of the company until her death in 2001.[1] In 2004, the company opened the first Mae B. shop, one of what was to become a chain of sex shops specifically aimed at female consumers. In 2004, the combined sales of the Beate Uhse industry group was €280 million, making it the largest distributor of adult-related entertainment and products in the world. Profits dropped significantly between 2006 and 2007.[citation needed]

As of 30 September 2007, the company employed 1,425 people and generated sales of just under €271 million in 2006. In 2009, just under €231 million were implemented, the number of employees at the end of the year 1,222. In 2010, €197.7 million were implemented,[citation needed] the number of employees was 975. In 2012, €144 million were still implemented, the number of employees was 704. In 2015, sales amounted to €128 million. The number of employees was 600 in 2016. 150 jobs were to be reduced. 16 of the 78 stores, including 3 in Germany, were to be closed.[4]

Since 2020, the company has been listed as Beate Uhse Group BV and headquartered in Veendam, Netherlands.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Flying was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Wolfgang Glatzer (1992). Recent social trends in West Germany, 1960-1990. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 429. ISBN 3-593-34402-5.
  3. ^ beate-uhse.ag: Beate Uhse verkauft Entertainmentsparte im Rahmen eines Assetdeals
  4. ^ Erotik-Pinonier in der Krise: Sex sells? Warum Beate Uhse trotzdem am Abgrund steht, stern.de, 19. Februar 2016