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Top 25 Department stores based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 116 department stores headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 7,155 professional contacts across them, including 999 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.
This list covers department stores headquartered in Germany, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest department stores based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,854 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bei GALERIA bieten wir Orte, die das Einkaufen schöner und das Leben leichter machen, denn wir gehören zu den führenden Warenhäusern Europas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 657 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Woolworth ist das Aktionskaufhaus – seit 1879!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 359 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Innovativ und wegweisend – das KaDeWe, das Alsterhaus und der Oberpollinger zählen zu den bedeutendsten Warenhäusern Deutschlands und zu den renommiertesten in ganz Europa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 332 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die porta Unternehmensgruppe steht seit 1965 für erfolgreiche Mensch-Möbel-Beziehungen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IMPRESSUM / DATENSCHUTZERKLÄRUNG: Unser Impressum sowie unsere Datenschutzerklärung kann durch einen Klick auf den Button "Kontakt" sowie unter dem URL…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alles begann 1842.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “dodenhof ist Norddeutschlands größtes Shopping-Center, das allein am Stammsitz in Posthausen bei Bremen über Quadratmetern Verkaufsfläche und zahlreiche Produktwelten verfügt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vom kleinen Knopfmacher zu einer der angesagtesten Adressen für Bekleidung & Beauty.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Auf insgesamt fast Quadratmetern stellen wir in unseren fünf Modehäusern in Oldenburg, Bremen-Vegesack, Leer, Lohne und Lippstadt immer die Menschen und die Bedürfnisse der Region…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Modern, serviceorientiert, familiär - Das sind die drei wichtigsten Werte der ZINSER-Gruppe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tradition & Innovation, Fashion & Fakten, Retail Stores & Onlineshops – der Kern der Unternehmensgruppe von P&C* Düsseldorf ist geprägt davon, Dinge zusammenzubringen, die…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mehr als 130 Jahre Robert Ley – eine Zahl, auf die wir zu Recht stolz sein können!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MEIN FISCHER SEIT 1832" ist seit 190 Jahren im Trend.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir fordern uns jeden Tag aufs Neue heraus, unsere Kundschaft mit einem liebevoll kuratierten Sortiment an Mode- und Lifestyle-Produkten zu überraschen und zu inspirieren.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bekleidungshäuser Karl Vockeroth GmbH is a company based out of Melsungen, Hessen, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Started over 70 years ago with the Munich flagship store on Theatinerstraße, the premium menswear retailer ECKERLE can now be found at nine locations in central inner city…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Getreu dem Motto "Wir ziehen Deutschland besser an!" steht das Unternehmen SØR seit über 50 Jahren für eine große Angebotsvielfalt exklusiver Premium- Marken wie z.B.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir wollen Menschen begeistern!"- Helmut Hagner, Unternehmensleitung Die vier ModeErlebnisKaufhäuser und die drei Einrichtungs- und Küchenwelten des inhabergeführten…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir, die Eggemann concept GmbH & Jens Petersen GmbH, haben uns mit Tradition seit 1896 einen Namen als Mode- und Lifestyle-Spezialist in Norddeutschland geschaffen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die PECHT Shoppingwelt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Im Herzen der Stadt Itzehoe ist mittlerweile das schönste Modehaus der Westküste entstanden, das auf Quadratmetern neben Damen, Herren, und Kinderbekleidung auch Sportartikel…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “REALTALE steht für ein neues Shopping-Erlebnis in 1A Verkaufslagen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bei Mode Giesler finden Sie in allen 6 Filialen hochwertige Markenmode für jeden individuellen Anspruch, für jeden Geschmack und jede Generation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fräulein Mode und Wohnen GmbH is a company based out of Krempen, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “1929 gegründet, hat sich das Ideenhaus Rodemann über die Jahrzente von einem klassichen Möbelhaus zu einem modernen Concept Store entwickelt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: department stores. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names department stores.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of department stores, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name department stores. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Department stores based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 116 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among department stores, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “department stores”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names department stores), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among department stores, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 999 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names department stores, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many department stores are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 116 department stores headquartered in Germany as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Galeria, headquartered in Dusseldorf, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most department stores?
Berlin leads with 5 headquartered companies, followed by Munchen (4) and Stuttgart (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 999 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 116 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.