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Home > Company Index > Retail > Clothing, Shoe & Accessory Retailing > Otto Versand Gmbh & Co.

Otto Versand Gmbh & Co.
 PROFILE
Otto Versand keeps post offices busy. The world's largest mail-order company sells merchandise in about 20 countries, offering some 600 print catalogs yearly, as well access via CD-ROM and the Internet. The firm sells products ranging from clothing to appliances to sporting goods. Otto Versand also owns a majority stake in the Crate & Barrel housewares chain, and it owns travel agencies in Germany. The company controls Actebis Holding, which distributes computers in Europe. Otto Versand does about 90% of its business in Europe, Japan, and the US. The family of chairman Michael Otto owns the majority of the company and separately controls US catalog company Spiegel.

 COMPETITION
Lands' End, Inc. (LE)
METRO AG (MEO)

 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: February
2001 Sales (mil.): 21,484.80
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 7.4%
Employees: 65,000
Revenue per employee: $330,535.38

 KEY PEOPLE
• Michael Otto
    CEO
• Michael E. Cruesemann
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
Wandsbeker Strasse 3-7
22172 Hamburg, Germany
Phone: 49-40-64-61-0
Fax: 49-40-64-61-85-71
Online: Web Site

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