!!!bauMax AG

bauMax AG, the largest building materials retail chain in Austria 
(29 % market share), founded in 1976 by K.  Essl. With its 74 
chain stores in Austria and 29 in other countries and with 1,300 
staff, the enterprise had a turnover of ATS 8.9 bn in 1998. The firm 
is listed at the stock exchange; it has been active in Hungary and the 
Czech Republic since 1992, in Slovenia since 1993 and in Slovakia 
since 1994. Like Schoemer HG (retailing of construction materials), 
bauMax is part of a holding company, which developed out of the coal 
merchant F. Schoemer's business, founded in Klosterneuburg in 1923.


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