- Manor (department store)
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Manor 
Type Public company Industry retailing Founded Lucerne (1902) Headquarters Basel Website www.manor.ch 
Manor shopping mall in Rapperswil
Manor AG is a Swiss department store chain with its headquarter in Basel. With an estimated market share of 59%, Manor is Switzerland’s biggest department-store chain. The Manor Group extends to the 70 Manor stores employing some 11,300 personnel, the Athleticum sports goods chain and Switzerland’s FLY furniture shops. The Group, which is owned by Geneva-based Maus Frères Holding, generated total sales of CHF 3.34 billion in 2010. Manor is positioned in the medium price segment.
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Company history
Brothers Ernest and Henri Maus and Léon Nordmann opened their first department store in Lucerne in 1902, under the “Léon Nordmann” name. The more familiar “Manor”—a combination of the founders’ Maus and Nordmann surnames—did not appear until a new corporate identity was adopted in about 1965. All the company’s department stores in German-speaking Switzerland have borne the Manor name since 1994, and all the stores in the rest of the country have carried the name since September 2000. The standardised name has provided Manor with clearer identification, greater market transparency, simplified communications and a nationwide presence.
Major business
Manor owns several trading names:
- Manor
- Manor Food
- Manora Restaurant / Manora Ristorante
- Appunto
- Sanovit
The most known store brands are:
- Maddison (clothing)
- Avant Première (clothing)
- JJBenson (clothing)
- Yes or No (clothing)
- Lokal (food)
- Hausgemacht (food)
- Bio Natur Plus (food)
- 1 2 3 (food)
- Gran Delizia (food)
See also
- List of Swiss companies
References
External links
Categories:- Companies of Switzerland
- Distribution, retailing, and wholesaling
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