Private company

Manufactum

Logo: Manufactum Waltrop, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

German department store chain

Manufactum GmbH (formerly Manufactum Hoof & Partner KG) is a German retailer with 14 full-sized stores in Germany 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.2 It was founded by Thomas Hoof.1 It employed 843 people in 2025.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1987Founded1
  • Industrydepartment store, e-commerce, retail1
  • HeadquartersWaltrop1
  • Websitewww.manufactum.de
  • Legal formGesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung1
  • Slogan“They still exist, the good things”1
  • LEI529900A4J4T4ST46MU673
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressHiberniastraße 5, 45731 Waltrop, Germany3
  • Registered withLocal Court Recklinghausen, HRB 79823

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Photo: NatiSythen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons6

Manufactum GmbH (formerly Manufactum Hoof & Partner KG) is a German retailer with 14 full-sized stores in Germany 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.2

The story

Founded by Thomas Hoof in 1987.1

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. In 2007, Manufactum had 400 employees and annual sales of 75 million EUR.

Stores are currently located in Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin, Waltrop, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Münster, Stuttgart, Vienna, and Munich.

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.

The brands "Manufactum Brot & Butter" (groceries; own stores in several German cities) and "Gutes aus Klöstern" (monastic products), the restaurant "Gasthaus Lohnhalle", and the designer furniture brand "Magazin" (with stores in Stuttgart, Bonn, Cologne and Munich) also belong to the Manufactum group.

From Wikipedia’s article on Manufactum, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Leadership

Who has led Manufactum, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Products and brands

  • accessory
  • clothing
  • garden tool
  • household equipment
  • kitchenware
  • leather goods
  • writing implement

Listed on Wikidata.1

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

From Wikidata.1

Employees over time

  • 20258431

Timeline

  1. 1987Founded Founded1

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