A Success Story

From 1923 to the present day...

The GV-Partner group of companies has a long tradition in wholesale. As early as 1923, with his company JOMO, which was based in Goch am Niederrhein, the company's founder, Josef Moll, supplied large commercial kitchens in hospitals and homes for the elderly throughout western and central Germany with margarine and other edible fats. After the Second World War business recommenced, and in no small part due to its good relationships with customers, enjoyed steady expansion. Soon deliveries were being made with the company's own fleet of vehicles. In 1970 the storage facilities in Goch became too small, and, during the Olympic year of 1972, the company's headquarters eventually moved to the more easily accessible Weeze.

In the same year the companies Paulsen und Hochfeld and Bartels-Langness GmbH established the first CITTI hypermarket in Kiel. Just one year later C&C-Markt opened its doors on the site of today's CITTI-Park. Not long afterwards and in response to growing demand, wholesale distribution began from C&C-Markt in Kiel. Further hypermarkets followed in Flensburg, Lübeck, on the island of Sylt and in Berlin.

In 1986, bulk consumer specialists CITTI and JOMO founded GV-Partner Warenhandels GmbH.

With German reunification hypermarkets were opened in Stralsund in 1990 and in Rostock in 1991; in 1992 a wholesale distributor was added in Neubrandenburg. In 1994 CITTI took a stake in JOMO Grosshandel GmbH & Co. KG in Weeze. In the same year, in response to growing demand, new distribution warehouses were set up in Kiel and Lübeck.

The construction and leasing of the STRELAPARK shopping centre in Stralsund in 1995 saw the group enter uncharted territory in reaction to the changed market conditions and demand for high quality, experience-driven shopping centres. This is a path, which, with the CITTI-PARK developments in Flensburg, Rostock, Lübeck and Kiel was repeated consistently and with great success.

In 1996 a new wholesale distribution centre was opened under the name of JOMO-CITTI in Zorbau near Leipzig; in the same year, through the takeover of the low temperature specialist, RINGEL, in Nuremberg, the GV-Partner group of companies acquired a new partner in southern Germany. In 1999 a RINGEL wholesale distribution centre was opened in Zusmarshausen near Augsburg. In 2002, with the takeover of Fritz Fuhrmann GmbH & Co. KG in Potsdam, business in Berlin expanded and in 2005 the bulk consumer business of Kreyenhop+Kluge in Bremen was taken over and integrated with the Hamburg branch.

With its investments in Hørkram Schulz Food Service A/S in Denmark in 2008 and the HMS Hanseatic Marine Services Group in 2010, steps were finally taken towards internationalising the GV-Partner group of companies.