"A brand from yesterday" – difficult comeback for Gerry Weber

The first thing you notice is the silence. The company headquarters of Gerry Weber in Halle, Westphalia, has emptied. Of the 2,000 employees who worked in the building during the fashion group’s heyday, only 350 remain.

Above all, the visitor, who is back in Halle for the first time in several years, misses the energetic voice of the founder Gerhard Weber. He built up the group from a two-man operation to a billion in sales, also made Halle the scene of an important tennis tournament – and still had to experience the insolvency of his life’s work shortly before his death in 2020.

But that’s in the past. The woman for the future at Gerry Weber is Angelika Schindler-Obenhaus.

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