{{Short description|German department store chain}} {{Infobox company |name = Manufactum GmbH |logo = Manufactum Logo.jpg |type = Private |foundation = 1987 |founder = Thomas Hoof |location = Waltrop, Germany |key_people = * Alexander Peters (CEO) * Kai Steffan (CEO) * Maximilian Kleinert (CEO) |industry = Retail |products = Household and garden goods, appliances, clothing, footwear, furniture, beauty products, tools, and electronics |num_employees = about 700<ref name="Otto_Group Manufactum">''[https://www.ottogroup.com/de/karriere/kgen/manufactum.php Manufactum Gruppe.]'' In: ''Otto Group'',19.&nbsp;Februar 2026.</ref> |revenue = {{profit}} € 75 million (2007)<ref name="textil">''Textilwirtschaft'', 17. September 2007</ref> |parent = Otto GmbH |homepage = [http://www.manufactum.com/ manufactum.com] |}}

'''Manufactum GmbH''' (formerly ''Manufactum Hoof & Partner KG'') is a German retailer with 14 full-sized stores in Germany<ref name="locs">{{Cite web|url=https://www.manufactum.de/manufactum-warenhaeuser-c199341|title=Manufactum Warenhäuser in der Übersicht}}</ref> and an online store that serves the majority of European Union member states. The company also sells cosmetics, apparel and shoes, computers, bikes, foodstuffs, books, bed and bath accessories, and furniture.

==History==

Manufactum was founded in 1987 by Thomas Hoof, former managing director of the German Green Party in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2008, Heine Versand, a wholly owned subsidiary of Otto GmbH, took over Manufactum.<ref>[https://www.faz.net/s/RubD16E1F55D21144C4AE3F9DDF52B6E1D9/Doc~EEB2756366BE54917A083881CF3E80813~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html „Otto kauft Manufactum“], Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 16. September 2007</ref> In 2007, Manufactum had 400 employees<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2025-04-29 |language=de |title=Einkaufen mit gutem Gewissen |url=https://www.vhst.de/cgi-bin/adframe/zeitschrift/top_themen/article.html?ADFRAME_MCMS_ID=2468 |website=VHSt – Hamburgischer Verein für den öffentlichen Dienst}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> and annual sales of 75 million EUR.<ref name="textil"/>

Stores are currently located in Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin, Waltrop, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Münster, Stuttgart, Vienna, and Munich.<ref name="locs"/>

There is criticism that the typical high-priced Manufactum products are quite elitist and that Manufactum does not like to disclose it is benefiting from globalization because some of its products are made in Asia.<ref>[https://www.faz.net/s/RubD16E1F55D21144C4AE3F9DDF52B6E1D9/Doc~E6B67BD81E5DE412F8C7CD2A46E79F0EC~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html „Lust am Einkaufen: Das Manufactum-Prinzip“], FAZ, 25. Februar 2010</ref>

The brands "Manufactum Brot & Butter"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.manufactum.de/manufactum-brot-und-butter-lebensmittel-c199366/ |title = Manufactum Brot & Butter: Lebensmittel im ursprünglichen Sinn}}</ref> (groceries; own stores in several German cities) and "Gutes aus Klöstern"<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.manufactum.de/gutes-aus-kloestern-c195077/ |title=Gutes aus Klöstern |access-date=2010-06-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100228213917/http://www.manufactum.de/Kategorie/187168/GutesausKloestern.html |archive-date=2010-02-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (monastic products), the restaurant "Gasthaus Lohnhalle",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.manufactum.de/gasthaus-lohnhalle-waltrop-c199344/|title=Gasthaus Lohnhalle in Waltrop|website=www.manufactum.de|accessdate=15 September 2017}}</ref> and the designer furniture brand "Magazin"<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.manufactum.de/magazin-c194657/ |title=Magazin |access-date=2010-06-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221225040/http://www.manufactum.de/Kategorie/188391/MAGAZIN.html |archive-date=2010-02-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (with stores in Stuttgart, Bonn, Cologne and Munich) also belong to the Manufactum group.

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==External links== *[http://www.manufactum.com Manufactum (international web site)] *[http://www.manufactum.de/ Manufactum Germany] {{in lang|de}}

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Category:Retail companies established in 1988 Category:Online retailers of Germany Category:Mail-order retailers Category:Retail companies of Germany