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Neustadt (Wied)/Frankfurt am Main ,
14.11.2016

BIRKENSTOCK Flying High in Frankfurt

German-Made Quality in Terminal 1: Germany’s largest footwear manufacturer opens brand store at the Shopping Boulevard mall at Frankfurt Airport.

International passengers at Frankfurt Airport can now add yet another highlight to their stay in Germany. On October 27, BIRKENSTOCK – one of the most popular global shoe brands – opened an official store at the landside Shopping Boulevard mall – the official retail area of the airport. With a sales floor measuring 60 square meters, the company offers an extensive selection of more than 200 models, including many of its popular sandals, closed-toe shoes, sneakers, kids’ shoes, and EVA models, not to mention socks and selected items from the new bag collection.

The BIRKENSTOCK store is open daily from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and showcases its stylish collections in Terminal 1, which is home to concourses A, B, C, and Z. This is where all flights for Lufthansa, its subsidiaries – Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines – and Star Alliance partners are handled. A few other airlines also take off and land at Terminal 1, including Qatar Airways and South American carrier LATAM Airlines.

As the fourth-largest airport in Europe and the largest in Germany, Frankfurt Airport serves mainly as an international hub for tourists and business travelers from around the world. From Frankfurt, passengers can travel to 275 destinations in 111 countries and choose between some 110 airlines. In recent years, the airport has recorded average passenger volumes of more than 60 million people a year, making it one of the world’s leading aviation hubs. Thanks to a planned expansion of capacity, the air traffic volume – and consequently the passenger volume – is set to once again increase considerably in the years ahead.

But Frankfurt Airport is also a popular attraction for locals, too: with more than 230 stores, numerous other businesses, and an on-site conference center, it provides jobs for more than 80,000 people, making it one of the largest local workplaces anywhere in Germany and a key economic force in the Rhine–Main Metropolitan Region. In addition, more than a million visitors a year – including shoppers and families with children, as well as technology and aviation enthusiasts – make use of the experiences on offer.

Press contact

Jochen Gutzy
Chief Communications Officer

Birkenstock Group B.V. & Co. KG
Burg Ockenfels
53545 Linz

Postal address:
Sedanstraße 4
D-50668 Köln

E-mail:mediabirkenstockcom

About BIRKENSTOCK

BIRKENSTOCK is a global brand which embraces all consumers regardless of geography, gender, age and income and which is committed to a clear purpose - maintaining foot health. Deeply rooted in studies of the biomechanics of the human foot and footed on a family tradition of shoemaking that can be traced back to 1774, BIRKENSTOCK is a timeless «super brand» with a brand universe that transcends product categories and ranges from entry-level to luxury price points while addressing the growing need for a conscious and active lifestyle. Function, quality and tradition are the core values of the lifestyle brand which features products in the footwear, sleep systems and natural cosmetics segments. BIRKENSTOCK is the inventor of the footbed and has shaped the principle of walking as intended by nature (“Naturgewolltes Gehen”).

With around 6,200 employees worldwide, we believe how things are made matters as much as the product itself. To ensure these quality standards, we operate a vertically integrated manufacturing base and produce all our footbeds in Germany. In addition, we assemble over 95% of our products in Germany and we source over 90% of our materials and components from Europe. We process our inputs to the highest environmental and social standards in the industry by operating state-of-the-art scientific laboratories for materials testing.

BIRKENSTOCK runs operational sites in Germany, in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Bavaria, Saxony, and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Headquartered in Linz am Rhein, the BIRKENSTOCK Group also operates its own sales offices in the United States and Canada as well as in Brazil, Japan, Denmark, Poland, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, Norway, the Netherlands, Dubai, Singapore and India.

Birkenstock Group B.V. & Co. KG Burg Ockenfels,
Linz am Rhein, Germany

You can find our online shop at www.birkenstock.com