Salamander and Delka are closing all shops

A general of 300 personnel at 40 places are affected. The complete industry is presently suffering from reluctance to buy.

With Salamander and Delka, the next shoe shops disappear from the Austrian retail landscape. The Kronen Zeitung reports that the 40 locations are to be closed by the quit of September. Three hundred personnel are affected by the measure.

However, the submitting of insolvency lawsuits ought to be avoided. According to the file, the sale of the products will start on July tenth. The figure business enterprise in Germany, the Ara Group, did not want to comment on Thursday.

The Austrian Delka and Salamander locations are specially placed in Vienna and inside the provincial capitals. The number of shops has been continuously reduced for years.

Industry insiders are not amazed by the go out from the chain. The German parent organisation had already announced on the cease of 2022 that its German retail department had to be restructured in a protecting protect procedure. Almost a hundred branches in Germany with a total of 950 complete-time positions have been affected. If the German mother falters, it not often has any effect at the subsidiary in Austria, it has long been rumored within the industry.

Picture of the state of affairs

Added to that is the constrained purchaser climate in Austria because of excessive inflation. “In April, we once more had a actual drop in sales of eight.Four percent inside the whole exchange, according to the figures from Statistics Austria. The reality that retail chains are actually being closed is only a mirrored image of the difficult situation,” comments Rainer Trefelik, alternate chairman on the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKO).

The whole first half of the year turned into slow in retail. Wolfgang Richter from the area consultant RegioPlan concurs that no other enterprise has been hit as tough as the stationary shoe trade within the past ten years. The enterprise might nominally flip over less today than it did ten years in the past.

The result is a slashed branch community and closures. Among other matters, the Polish shoe store CCC has absolutely withdrawn from Austria after an formidable growth. Many small retailers have disappeared from the marketplace, the Dominici shoe chain has filed for bankruptcy, as has the German Reno Group.

New Competitors

According to professionals, the shoe alternate has changed from the floor up. Sneakers are an increasing number of being sold, which have a tendency to be cheaper than leather-based footwear. At the identical time, sneaker producers like to depend on their own sales system and promote their hyped fashions of their personal flagship shops, bypassing the conventional retail trade. At the identical time, online retailers are grabbing an ever-growing share of the income cake, which is getting smaller and smaller besides in times of wellknown reluctance to buy.