Lisa Schumacher takes over Steinmetz’sche in Offenbach am Main / Helma Fischer sells her bookstore / boersenblatt.net / 2020-03-13

“At 70 it should be over, I had planned that years ago,” said Helma Fischer to the Börsenblatt. Lisa Schumacher is an absolute stroke of luck, Fischer continues. The bookstore could postpone “fresh wind” and the new owner will take care of that. After working at the Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main and the publishing house weissbooks.w in the Frankfurt Literature House, Lisa Schumacher started the educational project “Kolleg Schöne Aussicht – the literary house for teachers “realized and supervised.

The Steinmetz’sche Buchhandlung is located on Frankfurter Straße in the middle of Offenbach’s pedestrian zone. A general range, including a textbook, is offered on around 100 square meters. Fischer gives annual sales with good 500,000 euros of which about a third in Accounting business is generated. The bookshop employs one full-time employee and three half-day employees. Owner Helma Fischer took over the 186-year-old bookstore from Lothar Franck in 2014; Previously, she was the managing director of Steinmetz’schen, where she also completed her training as a bookshop in 1967.

From 1989 to 1992, Helma Fischer belonged to the Board member of the then Hessian Publishers and Booksellers Association as treasurer. From 1992 to 1998 she was its chair. The Association reform and the Vocational training were their main topics.

The Börsenblatt accompanies the takeover with a three-part series!

Part 1: Finding process, selection criteria, funding …
Part 2: Orientation, furnishings, assortment – what changes, what remains?
Part 3: How is it going? Is the concept correct? At which points are readjustments made?

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