1963
Foundation of the company in Hamburg as an import-export company for fashion jewellery.
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1966
Start-up of in-house manufacturing, and foundation of a nationwide field organisation for retail sales service.
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1977
Foundation of our own store system.
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1979
Moving into the new company headquarters in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel.
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1987
Conversion into “Bijou Brigitte modische Accessoires Aktiengesellschaft". Construction of the new production, storage and dispatch building in Hamburg- Poppenbüttel.
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1988
Admission to listing in the regulated market at the Hanseatic Stock Exchange, Hamburg.
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1989
Opening of first stores abroad in Austria and Netherlands. Number of stores grows to over 100 shops. Admission to listing at the Frankfurt/Main Stock Exchange.
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1991
Construction of the new administration building in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel.
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1993
Transfer of production abroad. Foundation of a trade office in Hong Kong.
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1996
Takeover of fashion jewellery competitor “rubin GmbH” with 40 stores nationwide.
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1998
Start of automatic delivery system for the stores. Conversion of the 50 DM nominal value shares into no-par value shares in the ratio 1:10.
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1999
Expansion into Spain and Poland. Capital increase through conversion of retained earnings at the same time as releasing bonus shares in the ratio 2:1.
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2000
Opening of the 300th and, at the same time, the first Hungarian Bijou Brigitte store in May 2000.
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2003
Market launch in Portugal and Italy. Capital increase from company funds to a capital stock of 8.1 million €. Share split in the ratio 1:3 - the number of shares now amounts to 8.1 million denominations of 1.00 € each.
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2004
Market launch in the Czech Republic.
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2005
Expansion in France and Greece.
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2006
Expansion in the US - pilot stores in Florida. Extension of the headquaters in Hamburg by 8.600 square metres.
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2007
Opening of the 1000th store in November in Budapest. Market launch in Great Britain.
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2008
Expansion to Finland and Sweden.
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2009
First Bijou Brigitte stores in Slovakia, Lithuania and Turkey.
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2010
First store in Bulgaria and expansion to Romania.
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2011
New subsidiaries in Switzerland and Brazil. First Bijou Brigitte stores in Belgium and Norway.
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2013
Bijou Brigitte celebrates its 50th anniversary. Introduction of new logo.
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2014
Start of the new sales concept "the p.cookery".
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2015
The company is running 1,082 stores and 490 Concession stores in 24 countries.
