Signa Holding

SIGNA Holding GmbH
Company typePrivate (GmbH)
IndustryReal estate, retail, media
Founded2000; 24 years ago (2000) in Innsbruck, Austria
FounderRené Benko
Defunct2023
FateUndergoing restructuring due to insolvency in 2023
Headquarters
Innsbruck
,
Austria
Key people
Websitewww.signa.at

Signa Holding GmbH (stylized as SIGNA) is Austria's largest privately owned real estate company. Signa Holding GmbH announced insolvency proceedings at the end of November 2023. The company will apply for self-administration restructuring proceedings at the Commercial Court of Vienna.[1]

Signa was founded in 2000 by the Tyrolean entrepreneur René Benko. Over the years, it has become a pan-European real estate group with more than 150 employees and offices in Vienna, Innsbruck, Munich, Düsseldorf, Luxembourg, Zurich, Bolzano, Berlin and Hamburg. The principal focus of the group is long-term investment in real estate in prime city centre locations. The firm has also became the biggest owner of malls in Central Europe with over 46,000 employees.[2]

  1. ^ "Signa Holding meldet Insolvenz an". FAZ.NET (in German). 29 November 2023. ISSN 0174-4909. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ^ Wir glauben an die City Interview with Rene Benko in the magazine Bilanz on 27 February