Bauhaus (company)

Bauhaus
Company typePrivate
IndustryRetail
Founded1960; 64 years ago (1960)
FounderHeinz-Georg Baus
Headquarters,
Switzerland
Number of locations
280 (2020)
Area served
Europe
OwnerHeinz-Georg Baus
Number of employees
17,000
Websitebauhaus.info
Home of the first Bauhaus store in Mannheim, Germany
Bauhaus store in Wuppertal, Germany

Bauhaus AG is a German pan-European retail chain offering products for home improvement, gardening, and workshop. The name contains the German words bauen (to build) and Haus (house), but also alludes to the modernist Bauhaus school and the company's founder and owner, the German billionaire Heinz-Georg Baus.

Its first store opened in Mannheim, West Germany in 1960.

Bauhaus has a total of 280 franchised stores, with more than 150 of them located in Germany.[1] It also operates in other 19 European countries, including Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.

  1. ^ "Bauhaus rejoins the industry association BHB". diyinternational.com. Retrieved 13 November 2020.