For more than 50 years hachmeister + partner has been a leading management consultancy for the textile and lifestyle sector. A view of the important milestones of the company development:

2011 Publication of the textile industry edition „Erfolgsstrategien der Fashion-Branche: Von den Besten lernen“

2011 Opening location Düsseldorf

2010 Publication of the BTE-specific documentation (association of the German textile trade – BTE) „ Der Erfolg vertikaler Flächenkonzepte“

2010 Start of consulting services for the shoe trade and shoe industry

2009 The benchmarking data pool covers 2bn Euro retail revenue p.a.

2009 With the help of h+p the inter-branch organisation BTE and German Fashion publishes a manual of “KPI definitions” for vertical space controlling

2007 h+p initiates and supports the paper „Internationalisation of German Fashion manufacturers” from the marketing and trade chair of the University of Trier

2005 h+p becomes a BTE competence partner

2003 Development BTE sector product group code for clothing, textile and sport

2003 Best practice study for verticalisation in the fashion sector

2002 Start of the new h+p sector data pool generation for retail and industry

2000 Opening of today’s corporate headquarters in Bielefeld

1999 Michael Hauf, Managing Partner of h+p, publishes the book „Benchmarking im Textileinzelhandel“

1998 Start of industry consulting

1998 Opening of the Reutlingen location

1990 Development of the profiling offensive for leading specialist retailers

1955 Build-up of a service network for the clothing sector

1949 Foundation of the consultancy by Wilhelm Hachmeister