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The Brueder Schlau Group can look back on more than 100 years of successful business history. With more than 200 locations, Hammer is now one of the leading interior design companies in Germany. Schlau is established as a leading wholesale partner for the crafts trade as well as specialised stores. We design living spaces for our Hammer customers with a wide range of products and innovations and are a solid partner for our professional customers.
This unique path to success is one that we, as a family-owned business and multiple award-winning instructor, would like to take along with you, whether you are an trainee or an intern, a career newcomer or an experienced professional in your field of expertise.
The key to our success is the people who work for us. We treat them with respect and appreciation and support each individual in developing their potential to the fullest. We offer a comprehensive range of opportunities for personal and professional development, flexible hours and an excellent work-life balance.
Let us go on this journey together!
Our powerful brands
Hammer specialist stores are among the top addresses throughout Germany when it comes to interior design. We design living spaces for millions of people with high-quality paints, wallpapers, curtains, sun protection systems, floor coverings, carpets, bathroom fittings, beds and home accessories. Hammer focuses on a successful selection, high-quality products, optimum availability of goods, an appealing price-performance ratio, a unique range of services and highly trained employees.
At present, Hammer employs more than 5,500 qualified specialists for its all-round service – in addition to the experts in the specialist stores, also in the handicraft sector. Consequently, we are not only one of the largest employers of interior decorators, floor layers as well as upholstery and decoration sewers in Germany, but also ensure our high standard of quality and reliability.
Hammer cultivates a corporate culture that focuses on humanity and team spirit in addition to a high level of commitment. Our success proves us right: more than 200 Hammer specialist stores have been opened since the company was founded in 1976.
At Schlau, trade and craft businesses will find paints, wallpapers, floor coverings, tools, construction chemicals, ETICS and accessories at attractive prices. Schlau always delivers the products needed for the various professional projects promptly and reliably.
We cooperate with all major brand suppliers and dispose of one of the largest and most versatile assortments of interior design. Schlau ensures professional advice and contact on site, individual support and assistance for project plans with its excellently trained and professionally experienced field service. More than 60 trade and craftmen’s markets in Germany additionally ensure spatial proximity to the customers. All products for daily work are in stock there. Our trained employees provide advice on topics such as new products, areas of application and qualities and are always willing to answer detailed questions. This makes Schlau one of the most important wholesalers in the sector. Our customers also have access to many services that are tailored to their specific needs. From delivery to the construction site through paint-mixing service and innovative shopfitting as well as product presentation modules up to marketing support.
Benefits
Here you will find information highlighting a selection of the benefits we offer at our various locations.
Company Pension Plan
Disability Provision
Group Accident Insurance
Occupational Health and Safety
Operational Integration Management
Bicycle Leasing
External Employee Counseling
Health Activities and Preventive Measures
Health Platform
Capital-forming Benefits
Employee Discounts and Extras
Staff Canteen*
Complimentary Beverages
Staff Events
Development Programs and Further Training Opportunities
Management Development
OUR LOCATIONS
With over 200 retail locations nationwide, Hammer is now one of the largest interior design companies. Brueder Schlau Group was able to strengthen its position as a leading wholesale partner and today distributes its products throughout all of Germany. In more than 60 crafts markets, we offer everything needed for day-to-day work, especially for regional crafts customers and the specialised trade. The company’s headquarters and central administration are in Porta Westfalica and the individual branches throughout Germany are overseen from here.
Our logistics center is adjacent to the corporate headquarters. Cooperation with the central warehouses in Ostrau and Wustermark ensures rapid supply to our wholesale customers and all retail locations.
Hammer26.03.2024
Hammer Specialist Store Now in Göttingen
Another specialist store in the Hammer retail sales division joins our extensive network of locations: The new store at Lutteranger 4 opened on 14 March 2024 and now offers customers from Göttingen and the surrounding areas the latest trends, products and services relating to interior design.
Read moreSchlau25.03.2024
Spectacular, Innovative and Trend-Setting:Trade Fair Schlau@Berlin was a Grand Success
Over 50 renowned exhibitors on 6,000 m² of exhibition space, some 1,000 visiting companies and businesses from the skilled trades and roughly 4,000 guests over two days: the Schlau@Berlin 2024 trade fair, organised by our wholesale sales line Schlau, was a resounding success!
Read moreHammer27.02.2024
Our Trainee Project with GWD Minden
High ceilings, stucco ornamentation and large stained glass windows: The offices of the GWD Minden handball club are located in an historic setting at the old imperial villa. Their rooms were renovated as part of a trainee project with our Hammer retail sales line.
Read moreHammer07.02.2024
New Hammer Specialist Store in Rendsburg
Another one of our retail chains specialist stores joins Hammer’s extensive network of locations: On 1 February 2024, the new store opened at Schleswiger Chaussee 249-257. From November 2023 to January 2024, numerous conversion measures took place on site in the Kaufland store building for the new Hammer Specialist Store.
Read moreBrüder Schlau07.02.2024
Three New Purchasing Managers Join our Teams
With immediate effect, the senior buyers Nantje Peemöller, Annika Hödtke and Karolyn Geis are expanding the Category Management division of the Brueder Schlau Group. With this move, the company continues its restructuring and reorganisation in this area.
Read moreHammer18.01.2024
Big Hammer Prize Draw
In November 2023, the Hammer retail store in Minden opened with a completely new design, attractive product presentation and digital consulting tools. As a long-standing sponsor of Bundesliga Handball Club GWD Minden, we presented the home game on 10 November 2023 to mark the reopening, where spectators had the chance to win a Hammer GiftCard worth €1,000 in a promotional competition.
Read moreHammer05.12.2023
Trainee Starter Week: Getting off to a Flying Start
This year’s Trainee Starter Week took place from 23 to 26 October 2023 for the trainees of our Hammer retail sales division. Of our more than 90 trainees from all over Germany, 63 from the areas of retail, sales, interior design and floor laying took part.
Read moreHammer23.11.2023
Brand New at Hammer Crafts Market in Minden
Consultancy, planning and implementation – everything under one roof
On 16 November 2023, the Hammer Retail Store at Königstrasse 168 opened its doors to customers, showcasing a completely new design on the opening day, which is reflected in the store’s fresh look, product presentation and the use of digital consulting tools, among other things.
In line with the guiding principle “Beautiful rooms – making it completely uncomplicated for our customers”, the store itself focuses on offering customer consultancy and inspiration.
Hammer17.10.2023
New Hammer Specialist Store in Heiligenroth
The Hammer specialist store network, a retail sales line of the Brueder Schlau Group of Companies, is being expanded further. On 12 October 2023, the new store opened on Industriestraße 11 and now offers the latest trends and products in interior design for customers from Heiligenroth and the surrounding area.
Read moreHammer09.10.2023
Fresh New Look for the Hammer Specialist Store in Duisburg
The renovation work is now complete at the Hammer Specialist Store at 56 Theodor-Heuss-Strasse in Duisburg. On 28 September 2023, the store, which is part of our retail sales line, reopened its doors and now offers customers the latest trends and products in the field of interior design.
Read moreHammer
Hammer Specialist Store Now in Göttingen
Schlau
Spectacular, Innovative and Trend-Setting:Trade Fair Schlau@Berlin was a Grand Success
Hammer
Our Trainee Project with GWD Minden
Hammer
New Hammer Specialist Store in Rendsburg
Brüder Schlau
Three New Purchasing Managers Join our Teams
Hammer
Big Hammer Prize Draw
Hammer
Trainee Starter Week: Getting off to a Flying Start
Hammer
Brand New at Hammer Crafts Market in Minden
Hammer
New Hammer Specialist Store in Heiligenroth
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Fresh New Look for the Hammer Specialist Store in Duisburg
YOUR PERSONAL
CONTACT PARTNERS
Do you have any questions about our job offers and career opportunities or would you like to share something with us?
Our recruiting team is looking forward to receiving your e-mail and are happy to help you in any way they can.
Stephanie Krach
Recruiting
05731 765-256
jobs@brueder-schlau.de
Hannah Kleinert
Recruiting
05731 765-291
jobs@brueder-schlau.de
Martina Trensch-Michalke
Team Management Recruiting
05731 765-835
jobs@brueder-schlau.de
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