Hamburg-based trading firm Gebr. Heinemann claimed a major award in Berlin yesterday evening as the German Retail Federation (HDE Handelsverband Deutschland) honoured the company with its annual prize “Deutscher Handelspreis”. In presenting this award in the category devoted to management performance in large companies, the HDE recognises the organisation’s exemplary entrepreneurial commitment and its prudent, forward-looking approach to business,” explained HDE President Josef Sanktjohanser. “As a reputable merchant in the Hanseatic tradition, Gebr. Heinemann is a family-run business that advocates diversity and responsibility in the social sphere as well as the fields of art and culture, science, research, education and training.”

HDE President Josef Sanktjohanser presented the award to Gunnar Heinemann, owner of Gebr. Heinemann, and Raoul Spanger, Executive Director responsible for retail and human resources. As Dr. Jürgen Weber, former CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa, remarked in his congratulatory speech, “The companies that win this award are traders with a passion. Time and again, they achieve that much sought-after immediacy between the customer and the product. The owners and managers of this prize-winning business are proud to have remained a family-run operation throughout – even if it’s a six thousand-strong family, as they are keen to point out.”

For his part, Gunnar Heinemann was clearly proud to receive the award: “As the owners and managers, the award is a great honour for us. Above all, though, this is an accolade for all Heinemann employees around the world – after all, it is they who have made our family-run business a global success on the travel retail market.”

As Executive Director Raoul Spanger continues, “We are already the leader of the travel retail market in Europe and a creative innovator in the retail sector. That’s an

excellent basis on which to bring about organic expansion on the global travel retail market. Our concept is clearly just as effective on the other side of the world, as our positive start in Sydney proves.”

Hamburg, 19th November 2015

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