What is that makes HORNBACH unique?

How we became what we are: key milestones in HORNBACH’s success story.

History

A Group that is just as diverse as its customers.

Group structure

Key facts and figures about the HORNBACH Group at a glance.

Key facts and figures
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What is that makes HORNBACH unique?

How we became what we are: key milestones in HORNBACH’s success story.

History

A Group that is just as diverse as its customers.

Group structure

Key facts and figures about the HORNBACH Group at a glance.

Key facts and figures

History of the HORNBACH Group

1877

Michael Hornbach, a master slater, establishes a workshop in Landau/Pfalz. 

1900

His son, Wilhelm Hornbach, expands his father’s business by adding a construction materials trading business.

Nach 1945

Alongside the construction materials trade, the production of domestic and municipal sewage plants becomes an important springboard for further growth in the next generation with Albert and Wilhelm Hornbach junior. For this, HORNBACH moves to Bornheim bei Landau.

1968

Otmar Hornbach, great-grandson of the company founder, takes a pioneering step – opening the first combined DIY store and garden center in Bornheim. This combination is the first of its kind in Europe.

1980

The first large-scale “DIY supermarket”, with sales areas of more than 8,000 m², opens in Karlsruhe. HORNBACH becomes the leading specialist in DIY superstores.

Full history

Facts and figures

171
locations
HORNBACH Baumarkt AG operates 169 DIY megastores and garden centers and two specialist retail stores in nine European countries.
2 million sqm
retail space
All in all, HORNBACH Baumarkt AG has retail space of around two million square meters. That corresponds to an average store size of around 12,000 square meters. 
Euro 2,823
retail surface productivity
Sales per square meter of retail space (surface productivity) stood at exactly Euro 2,823 in 2023/24.
25,000
employees
The HORNBACH Group currently has around 25,000 employees. 
Euro 6.2 bn
sales
The HORNBACH Group generated sales of around Euro 6.2 billion in the 2023/24 financial year (-1.6 percent on previous year).
Euro 254 m
Adjusted EBIT
The HORNBACH Group’s adjusted EBIT stood at approx. Euro 254 million in the 2023/24 financial year (-12.4 percent on previous year). 

Group structure 

Status: as of Feb 29, 2024

Status: as of Feb 29, 2024

HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA (ISIN DE0006083405, WKN 608340) is the parent company of the HORNBACH Group. It is not itself an operating company, but has a number of major subsidiaries.

By far the largest and most important subsidiary is HORNBACH Baumarkt AG, which operates DIY megastores in Germany and abroad. The retail activities of the Group are supplemented by HORNBACH Baustoff Union GmbH, which is active in the builders’ merchants business and mainly has commercial customers.

The development and utilization of first-class retail real estate constitutes a further business activity of HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA. This is undertaken in part by HORNBACH Immobilien AG, which owns much of the extensive real estate portfolio of the HORNBACH Group.


Further details about the individual shareholdings of HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA can be found in the 2023/24 Annual Report.

Retail activities

Real estate activities

Financial reports & presentations

Our guiding principles: The HORNBACH Foundation

HORNBACH is a forward-looking, family-managed company that is characterized by a clear system of values. The values on which this system is based are honesty, credibility, reliability, clarity, and trust in people. This system of values, which had already been lived over many decades, was summarized in the “HORNBACH Foundation” in 2004. This model forms the cornerstone for our Group strategy, everyday behavior, and corporate social responsibility. It lays down the basic values governing how we behave towards our customers, as well as how we behave towards each other as colleagues. Moreover, the Foundation helps our shareholders, customers, and the general public, as well as our employees, to understand what the basis of our business success is.

HORNBACH Foundation
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Corporate governance

Board of Management

Supervisory Board

Articles of Association

HORNBACH Values

Reporting system

Remuneration report

Information security and data protection

Further information

Factsheet

Here the most important facts about the HORNBACH Group are available at a glance.