Leiner, Rudolf, GmbH#
Leiner, Rudolf, GmbH, furniture marketing chain with headquarters at St. Poelten, Lower Austria. Goes back to a company founded in 1808, since 1910 owned by the Leiner family, became one of Austria's leading furniture store chains under R. Leiner; in 1973 a second sales chain was established within the Leiner group: kika Moebelhandels GmbH. The group now has 44 furniture stores with sales (1998) in the order of ATS 14 billion. It has been managed by H. Koch since 1973 and acquired the Michelfeit furniture stores in 1999.