Maus Frères

Maus Frères SA (French for "Maus Brothers") is a Swiss holding company founded in 1892 by Ernest and Henri Maus.{{Cite web |title=Maus Frères - first generation |url=https://maus.ch/en/practice/founders/ |access-date=2025-05-04 |language=en}} The company most notably owns the Manor department store and Lacoste.{{cite web |date=15 November 2012 |title=Switzerland's Maus Freres snaps up Lacoste |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lacoste-mausfreres/switzerlands-maus-freres-snaps-up-lacoste-idUSBRE8AE0Q220121115 |accessdate=19 November 2017 |via=Reuters}}

History

In 1892 Ernest and Henri Maus opened the mercantile and hosiery wholesale business Maus Fréres in Bienne.

The business was moved to Geneva in 1901.

In 1902 Léon Nordmann of the Kaufhaus Normann department store entered into a partnership with Ernest and Henri.

Its oldest business remains the Manor department store chain, which gets its name from founders' names "Maus" and "Nordmann".

Until the early 1990s, Maus also owned Printemps in France and the Bergner's, Carson Pirie Scott, and Boston Store department store chains in the Midwestern United States.

Maus Frères announced the sale of the DIY brand Jumbo to the Coop group in April 2021.{{Cite journal |last=Voix |first=Raphaël |date=2021-03-04 |title=Frères d’armes |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/terrain.21584 |journal=Terrain |issue=74 |doi=10.4000/terrain.21584 |issn=0760-5668|doi-access=free }}

Holdings

class="wikitable sortable"

|+List of Maus Frères holding

!Name

!Year

acquired

!Year

divested

!Year

founded

! class="unsortable" |Notes

Manor{{efn|as Leon Nordmann till|name=}}

|1902

|n/a{{Cite web |title=Maus Frères - Landmark Brands |url=https://maus.ch/en/landmark-brands/ |access-date=2025-05-04 |language=en}}

|1902

|Department store

Manor Food

|1952{{Cite web |title=Maus Frères - second generation |url=https://maus.ch/en/practice/deuxieme-generation/ |access-date=2025-05-04 |language=en}}

|n/a

|1952

|Supermarket

Maus Frères Shopping Centers

|1974

|n/a

|1974

|Shopping malls

Manora Restaurant

|1982{{Cite web |title=Maus Frères - third generation |url=https://maus.ch/en/practice/third-generation/ |access-date=2025-05-04 |language=en}}

|n/a

|1982

|Restaurants

Aigle

|2003{{Cite web |title=Maus Frères - fourth generation |url=https://maus.ch/en/practice/fourth-generation/ |access-date=2025-05-04 |language=en}}

|n/a

|1853

|Outdoor clothing and footwear

Gant

|2008

|n/a

|1949

|Clothing

Lacoste

|2012

|n/a

|1933

|Designer sportswear

Tecnifibre

|2017

|n/a

|1979

|Sporting equipment

class="wikitable sortable"

|+List of divested Maus Frères holding

!Name

!Year

acquired

!Year

divested

!Year

founded

! class="unsortable" |Notes

Haushalt

|1914

Magazine zur Rheinbrucke

|1932

|Department store

Bergner's

|1938

|1992

|1889

|Department store

Nouvelles Galeries

|1953

|1897

|Department store

Printemps

|1972

|1991

|1865

|Department store, acquired as part of Groupe Printemps

Prisunic

|1972

|1991

|1931

|Variety store, acquired as part of Groupe Printemps

Brummel

|1972