Shoe brand Gabor is now owned by a Swiss investor

The Swiss investor Arklyz has acquired the German shoe brand Gabor. The firm, based mostly in Stans on Lake Lucerne, didn’t disclose the acquisition value. All regulatory approvals have been obtained, based on the press launch.

Previously owned by the eponymous founding household and headquartered in Rosenheim, the shoemaker is greatest identified for its girls’s footwear. The firm is now wholly owned by Arklyz. The Gabor brand shall be retained, and the present administration staff will stay in place.

Arklyz is an funding holding firm based in 2018 that is primarily energetic within the sports activities, clothes, and footwear sectors. Arklyz additionally acquired a German shoe brand final yr: Lloyd, based mostly in Sulingen, Lower Saxony.

Headquarters in Bavaria, manufacturing overseas

The precursor to right now’s Gabor Shoes was a shoe workshop based in 1919 in what is now Polish Upper Silesia; the corporate has been based mostly in Rosenheim since 1966. According to the corporate’s web site, Gabor is certainly one of Europe’s largest shoe producers.

In 2023, the corporate employed just below 2,630 individuals. Of these, solely 366 have been based mostly in Germany; the bulk labored in two shoe factories in Slovakia and Portugal. According to the German firm register, Gabor posted a web revenue of 13.4 million euros in 2023, with income totalling 282 million euros.