Thalia | Competitive Intelligence Profile
Thalia is a retail company with a passion for books and reading, founded in 1919 in Hamburg. It is a family-owned business headquartered...

Thalia is a retail company with a passion for books and reading, founded in 1919 in Hamburg. It is a family-owned business headquartered in Hagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, and is the market leader in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Thalia operates around 500 bookstores and has a strong online presence, offering a diverse range of content and stories through various channels.
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Headquarters
Hagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Size
5001-10,000 employees
Industry
Retail
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🛍️ Thalia Product and Pricing News
- Thalia has expanded its exclusive Peach Pink Papers collection with new stationery items including notebooks, planners, pens, and sticky notes.
- Deana Zinßmeister announced her new novel will be available as an ebook exclusively at Thalia on March 1 and in print on April 1.
- Thalia launched an exclusive detective-themed collection in collaboration with publisher KOSMOS, featuring items like themed socks and coffee mugs, to coincide with the release of the movie 'The Three ??? And the Carpathian Dog.'
- Thalia introduced the Thalia Storyteller Award 2025 and added new book titles including 'Fourth Wing – Flammengeküsst' by Rebecca Yarros and 'Credence – Sie ist tabu, doch Liebe kennt keine Regeln' by Penelope Douglas, while removing several other titles.
- Thalia has introduced transparent cases for the Tolino e-reader, ideal for personalization.
- Thalia has replaced its focus on 'Jahresbestseller' and 'Gute Vorsätze' with new offerings such as 'Rebecca Yarros' dragon-themed series and 'Liebesromane', indicating a strategic shift towards fantasy and romance genres.
- Thalia launched an exclusive 'Die drei ??? x Thalia' collection with KOSMOS, featuring over 100 unique items like socks and mugs to celebrate the movie release of 'Die drei ??? und der Karpatenhund.'
- Thalia launched a new private label range called Brewed Boutique.
👔 Thalia CEO, Management and Leadership Team
⚔️ Thalia Alternatives and Competitors
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💼 Thalia Hiring and Layoffs
- Claudio Di Vincenzo has joined Thalia as Finance Director in Germany, previously serving as Finance & Controlling Director at L'Oréal.
- Thalia is hiring a Senior Manager HR Legal to join Sebastian Schaaps' HR team.
- Laura Mühlichen attended a leadership program at Thalia focusing on data-driven management.
- Thalia is offering training and dual study programs at their central locations for careers in retail or e-commerce.
- Maximilian Bents has joined Thalia as Senior Manager SAP Finance in Germany, previously serving as Deputy Head of Standard Systems / Reporting Accounting at Continentale Versicherungsverbund.
- Phil Alshuth, a Syndikusrechtsanwalt at Thalia, is seeking new opportunities in employment law and business consulting.
🤖 Thalia Developer, Integration and Automation News
- Thalia and Osiander become 'main partners in bookselling' to support cultural participation of young people, and Thalia expands its reach with a new WhatsApp broadcast channel as of February 13, 2025.
- Thalia, led by CEO Ingo Kretzschmar, has become the 'main partner in bookselling' for the KulturPass initiative in Germany, in collaboration with Osiander and the Stiftung Digitale Chancen.
- Thalia has partnered with RELEX Solutions to use AI-driven software for optimizing supply chain processes across its 500 stores in the German-speaking region.
- Oli Seubert and Nina Raabe collaborated with Thalia's HR team on implementing SAP SuccessFactors for their Austrian colleagues.
- Thalia has expanded its partner model by opening two new partner bookstores in Ebenhausen and Pullach.
- Thalia promotes its partner model as a key strategy for preserving book culture and vibrant city centers, according to CEO Ingo Kretzschmar.
- Thalia promotes its partner model as a sustainable succession solution in the book trade, according to Frank Wehrmann, Betriebsberater at Thalia Bücher GmbH.
- Thalia collaborated with Peagreen to create festive socks featuring Nutcracker illustrations.
📈 Thalia Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News
- Thalia will secure the Menden bookstore Daub by April 2025 and the Schmargendorfer bookstore in Berlin by February 15, 2025.
- Thalia's sales rank for the book 'Liebes Kind' by Romy Hausmann improved from 550 to 299.
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