public fwb use industry retailing founded 1946 founder beate uhse rotermund headquarters flensburg germany area served in more than 60 countries worldwide products sex shops website www.beate uhse.ag beate uhse shop beate uhse ag is a german industry group with focus on selling adult entertainment in the form of sex toys lingerie clothing and pornography . it is the most successful company in the german sex industry 1 and the country s leading pornography retailer . 2 it was founded by former german war time pilot and sex pioneer beate uhse rotermund 1 in 1946 and started out as a distibutor of pamphlets on family planning called schrift x roughly writing x or paper x which was a major success . in 1962 the company opened the world s first sex shop in flensburg west germany . 1 when pornography was finally made legal in west germany in 1976 beate uhse was well prepared with a widely known and respected brand name and an established mail order business . by 1992 it owned 30 sex shops and 25 cinemas had a turnover of 100 million deutschmarks and 10 million customers visited its premises . 2 it currently has over 1 500 employees is active in 60 countries and has been listed on the frankfurt stock exchange since 1999 . uhse remained the chairwoman of the company until her death in 2001 . 1 in 2004 beate uhse ag opened the first mae b. shop a chain of sex shops specifically aimed at female consumers . in 2004 the combined sales of the beate uhse industry group was 280 million making it the largest distributor of adult related entertainment and products in the world . profits have dropped significantly in the year 2006 2007 . 3 references edit a b c d amy goodpaster strebe trish beckman 2007 . flying for her country the american and soviet women military pilots of world war ii . greenwood publishing group . p. 3 . isbn 0 275 99434 1 . a b wolfgang glatzer 1992 . recent social trends in west germany 1960 1990 . mcgill queen s press . p. 429 . isbn 3 593 34402 5 . http www.fmwf.com newsarticle.php id 1374 & cat 5 financial mail women s forum 26 august 2007 external links edit beate uhse ag official homepage beate uhse adult products website authority control worldcat identities viaf 249401600 gnd 10067832 4 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title beate uhse ag & oldid 668092344 categories retail companies of germanyretail companies of the united kingdomsex shopsflensburghidden categories wikipedia articles with viaf identifierswikipedia articles with gnd identifiers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 22 june 2015 at 09 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view