Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft
Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft is the former registered name of a German stock corporation entered at the Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen am Rhein under HRB 42722, with its registered seat at Neustadt/Weinstraße. That register sheet is closed. Entry 12 on the sheet, registered on 9 October 2015, records that the company was converted, by way of a change of legal form (Formwechsel) under the resolution of the general meeting of 9 July 2015, into HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA, seated in Neustadt/Weinstraße and registered at the Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen am Rhein under HRB 64616, and that the sheet was thereupon closed (Das Registerblatt ist geschlossen). A Formwechsel does not create a new legal person, so the entity described here continues to exist today under the name and register number HRB 64616, and its legal form is a Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien (KGaA, a partnership limited by shares) and no longer an Aktiengesellschaft. The sheet HRB 64616 carries the register status “aktuell” (current) as at 6 October 2026. Neither sheet records a dissolution, liquidation or deletion.
The registration dates and the founding year of the family business are separate things and should not be conflated. Entry 1 on HRB 42722 records that the stock corporation arose from the conversion, under the German Transformation Act and by shareholders’ resolution of 17 March 1987, of the Hornbach OHG of Bornheim, a general partnership that had existed since 12 March 1953; the day of first registration (Tag der ersten Eintragung) is given as 15 May 1987, and the sheet replaced the earlier sheet HR B 2722 NE at the Amtsgericht Neustadt when the register was transferred to electronic form on 16 September 2005. The articles of association of the predecessor are dated 12 March 1953; the articles of the present KGaA are dated 9 July 2015. The company’s own annual report for 2025/26 states that HORNBACH was founded around 150 years ago and is family-run in the fifth generation, and the business dates its origin to 1877 — that is a founding year of the family firm, not the registration date of any stock corporation, and no 1 January registration event appears on either register sheet.
The registered object of the company, as set out on both register sheets, is the management of a trading, services and real-estate undertaking, specifically: the establishment, acquisition and operation of large-format retail outlets, in particular DIY stores or home-improvement centres, with or without garden centres, garden markets, specialist markets and other specialist retail businesses; similar and other areas of retail and wholesale trade; the manufacture, treatment and processing of products that are the subject of those trading activities; asset management and the acquisition, management and disposal of interests in domestic and foreign undertakings; the provision of management and other services; and the acquisition, development, planning, construction, use, management and disposal of undeveloped and developed land and rights equivalent to land. The share capital recorded on HRB 64616 is EUR 48,000,000.00; on the closed sheet HRB 42722 it was EUR 24,000,000.00 at first registration and was raised to EUR 48,000,000.00 by a resolution of the general meeting of 8 July 2011, registered on 15 July 2011. The domestic business address shown on HRB 64616 is Hornbachstr. 11, 76879 Bornheim, changed from Le Quartier Hornbach 19, 67433 Neustadt by an entry registered on 14 August 2020; the registered seat (Sitz) remains Neustadt an der Weinstraße. The register does not designate either address as a headquarters.
The company’s own ordinary shares are admitted to trading. The annual report for 2025/26 states that the share capital of EUR 48,000,000.00 is divided into 16,000,000 no-par bearer ordinary shares (Stückaktien) with a notional EUR 3.00 each, that there is only one class of share, and that these shares are admitted to trading in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under ISIN DE0006083405 and WKN 608340. The share master data in the same report give the trading venues as Frankfurt and Xetra, the stock market code HBH, Bloomberg code HBH:GR, Reuters code HBH.DE, a financial year running from 1 March to 28 (29) February, and a first issue on 3 July 1987 (originally a preference share of HORNBACH AG). The issuer also states that the shares are included in the SDAX index, and the annual report uses the SDAX as the share’s benchmark index. At 28 February 2026 the company held 1,018 of its own shares in treasury (prior year 3,249), leaving 15,998,982 shares outstanding; the closing price for the financial year was EUR 86.00 and market capitalisation EUR 1,375.9 million.
Reported operating scale must be read at two separate levels. At entity level, the separate financial statements of HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA prepared under the German Commercial Code (HGB) for the financial year 2025/26 (1 March 2025 to 28 February 2026) report revenue of EUR 1,931 thousand (prior year EUR 2,054 thousand), which the company states arises mainly from recharges of material and personnel costs to affiliated undertakings; income from investments of EUR 71.0 million (prior year EUR 80.4 million); a net profit for the year (Jahresüberschuss) of EUR 73.1 million (prior year EUR 61.0 million); a balance-sheet profit of EUR 130,446,605.15; and total assets of EUR 745.9 million at 28 February 2026 (prior year EUR 605.9 million). At consolidated level, the IFRS consolidated financial statements for 2025/26 report net sales of EUR 6,434 million (an increase of 3.8 per cent), of which EUR 3,240 million was generated elsewhere in Europe; EBITDA of EUR 486 million; EBIT of EUR 256 million; adjusted EBIT of EUR 265 million; a pre-tax result of EUR 201 million; earnings per share of EUR 8.66; and an average workforce of 20,968 full-time equivalents. These consolidated figures are not the legal entity’s own trading results.
The activities, products and markets reported on a consolidated basis are DIY and garden-centre retailing, DIY online retailing, builders’ merchant and specialist building-materials trade for mainly commercial customers, and the holding and letting of retail property. At 28 February 2026 consolidated reporting covered 176 retail locations — 173 large-format DIY and garden centres and three BODENHAUS hard-flooring stores — in nine European countries, with 100 locations in Germany and 76 elsewhere in Europe, namely the Netherlands (18), Austria (15), Romania (11), Czechia (10), Switzerland (8), Sweden (8), Slovakia (5) and Luxembourg (1), on a weighted total selling area of 2,118 thousand square metres, alongside 39 builders’ merchant branches of which 37 are in south-west Germany and two in France. Online shops are operated in those nine countries plus a separate BODENHAUS online shop. An active register status does not establish that the entity or the group is trading, and these operating figures are reported at consolidated level.
Material developments with dated sources: the general meeting of 11 July 2025 resolved a new authorised capital (Genehmigtes Kapital 2025/I) of up to EUR 9,600,000.00 by the issue of up to 3,200,000 new no-par bearer shares until 10 July 2030, and cancelled the authorisation created in 2021; this was registered on HRB 64616 on 24 November 2025. For the financial year 2025/26 the general partner and the supervisory board proposed a dividend of EUR 2.40 per dividend-bearing ordinary share, a total distribution of EUR 38,397,556.80, to the general meeting planned for 10 July 2026. For the first six months of the financial year 2026/27 (1 March to 31 August 2026) the company reported consolidated net sales of EUR 3,816.2 million, up 6.0 per cent, gross profit of EUR 1,320.6 million at a gross margin of 34.6 per cent, adjusted EBIT of EUR 285.6 million, up 4.9 per cent, and free cash flow of EUR 194.9 million; consolidated equity ratio was 45.8 per cent and net financial debt EUR 1,174 million at 31 August 2026. The company reported the opening of a store at Graz-Liebenau, Austria, on 11 September 2026, announced an opening at Beuningen in the Netherlands for October 2026, and stated that six former HELLWEG locations in Germany are to reopen as HORNBACH stores in spring 2027.
Sources
- Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen am Rhein, HRB 42722, chronologischer Abdruck (entries 1 to 12), retrieved 6 October 2026
- Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen am Rhein, HRB 64616, chronologischer Abdruck (entries 1 to 8), retrieved 6 October 2026
- HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA, Geschäftsbericht (annual report and consolidated financial statements) 2025/26 for the financial year 1 March 2025 to 28 February 2026
- HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA, investor presentation (Factbook) for Q2 2026/27, September 2026
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Shareholders
Shareholders of Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft
The entity registered as Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft at the Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen am Rhein under HRB 42722 continues, after the change of legal form registered on 9 October 2015, as HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA under HRB 64616 at the same court. Its shareholder base must therefore be read as that of a Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien, which has two distinct groups of members: the personally liable shareholder (persönlich haftende Gesellschafterin) and the limited shareholders (Kommanditaktionäre).
The share capital recorded on HRB 64616 is EUR 48,000,000.00. The annual report for 2025/26 states that it is divided into 16,000,000 no-par bearer ordinary shares with a notional amount of EUR 3.00 each, that there is only one class of share and that all limited shareholders hold the same class. The same report states that the personally liable shareholder, HORNBACH Management AG, participates neither in the profit and loss nor in the assets of the KGaA. The personally liable shareholder therefore holds no part of the share capital, and the whole of the share capital is held by limited shareholders. Because there is a single share class and the general partner holds no shares, a percentage of share capital and a percentage of the voting rights exercisable at the general meeting coincide for this issuer; the figures below are identified individually.
The group structure chart in the annual report for 2025/26, stated as at 28 February 2026, shows the following split of the listed ordinary shares:
| Holder | Percentage | Basis | As at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hornbach Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (Annweiler am Trifels, Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz HRB 3300) | 37.5 per cent | Share capital and general-meeting voting rights. The issuer’s own footnote states that this figure includes ordinary shares held by members of the Hornbach family whose voting rights the Hornbach Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mbH exercises, so it is a pooled voting position and not necessarily shares registered to the Treuhandgesellschaft alone. | 28 February 2026 |
| Free float (Streubesitz) | 62.5 per cent | Share capital and general-meeting voting rights. The issuer’s own footnote states that this figure includes ordinary shares held by members of the Hornbach family. | 28 February 2026 |
The articles of the KGaA impose a floor on the family holding. The annual report states that the participation of Hornbach Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mbH in the share capital of HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA must amount to more than 10 per cent, and that Hornbach Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mbH must hold at least 50 per cent plus one share in HORNBACH Management AG. The same report states that Hornbach Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mbH currently holds all of the shares in HORNBACH Management AG. The registered object of the Treuhandgesellschaft, as recorded on HRB 3300 at the Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz, is asset management of all kinds, in particular the acquisition and management of interests in undertakings, the management of its own assets, and the pooling of the interests and the votes of its own members in investee companies.
Holdings in the free float are published only where a statutory notification threshold has been reached. Under sections 33 and 38 of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG) the thresholds are 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 50 and 75 per cent of voting rights. The notifications published by the issuer, each stating a total of 16,000,000 voting rights in issue, are:
| Notifying party | Voting rights | Held through | Threshold reached on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finda Oy, Helsinki, Finland | 12.64 per cent (2,022,127 voting rights), indirect; previous position 10.06 per cent | Finda Telecoms Oy | 4 May 2023 |
| M&G plc, London, United Kingdom | 7.15 per cent (1,143,575 voting rights), indirect; previous position 6.77 per cent | M&G Investment Management Limited; M&G (Lux) Investment Funds 1 named as the holder of 3 per cent or more directly | 11 September 2025 |
| Johannes Jansen | 3.01 per cent (481,852 voting rights), indirect; previous position 0 per cent | Aurelio Holding B.V. | 22 April 2026 |
These notified positions are voting-rights percentages as at the stated threshold dates and are not restated to a common date; they are not additive with the 28 February 2026 free-float figure and no effective percentage has been calculated across them. At 28 February 2026 the company itself held 1,018 of its own shares in treasury (prior year 3,249 shares), leaving 15,998,982 shares outstanding; the dividend proposal for 2025/26 is calculated on that number.
Ultimate beneficial ownership
No ultimate beneficial owner can be established from the sources used, and none is asserted here. Three points determine that.
First, control of this entity does not run through the shareholder base in the way it would for an Aktiengesellschaft. The annual report states that the personally liable shareholder manages the business of HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA and represents it towards third parties, that the supervisory board of the KGaA has no right to appoint the management board of the personally liable shareholder, and that the latter is appointed by the supervisory board of HORNBACH Management AG. A holding of share capital in the KGaA therefore does not by itself confer control over its management, and the customary practice of reading a shareholding above a fixed percentage as beneficial ownership does not apply here. No 25 per cent threshold has been used.
Second, the highest entity identified in the published chain is Hornbach Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, a limited liability company and therefore a legal entity, not a natural person; it is not assumed to be the beneficial owner. Its own members are not named in the chronological register print for HRB 3300, which records only the registered managing directors, the registered object and the share capital of EUR 550,000.00. Its registered object expressly describes it as pooling the interests and votes of its members, which indicates a plurality of family members rather than a single controlling holder, but the register print does not state how its own capital is divided and no individual percentage has been established.
Third, the German Transparenzregister, which records beneficial owners under the Money Laundering Act, was not consulted, and general public access to it was annulled by the Court of Justice of the European Union in its judgment of 22 November 2022 in joined cases C-37/20 and C-601/20, access since being conditional on a demonstrated legitimate interest. The absence of a named beneficial owner here reflects the sources used and the access rules, and is not evidence that the company has no beneficial owner.
Data availability
Major shareholders only. For a listed issuer such as this one, the German commercial register publishes no shareholder list: no Gesellschafterliste is filed for a KGaA, and neither HRB 42722 nor HRB 64616 contains one. Ownership of the listed ordinary shares is published only through the issuer’s own structure disclosures and through voting-rights notifications above the statutory thresholds of 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 50 and 75 per cent of voting rights. What is published is therefore not the full shareholder base: holders below 3 per cent of voting rights are not individually disclosed, and the 62.5 per cent free float is not broken down beyond the notified positions set out above. No percentage has been substituted for a missing figure, and no holding has been recorded as zero. The absence of a disclosed holder must not be read as the absence of owners.
Sources
- Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen am Rhein, HRB 64616, chronologischer Abdruck (entries 1 to 8), retrieved 6 October 2026
- Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen am Rhein, HRB 42722, chronologischer Abdruck (entries 1 to 12), retrieved 6 October 2026
- Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz, HRB 3300, Hornbach Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, chronologischer Abdruck (entries 1 to 10), retrieved 6 October 2026
- HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA, Geschäftsbericht 2025/26: group structure and shareholders chart as at 28 February 2026; statement on corporate governance, sections on legal-form and articles-specific features; notes on treasury shares and on WpHG voting-rights notifications
- HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA, voting-rights notifications under sections 33 and 38 WpHG published by the issuer: Finda Oy, published 8 May 2023; M&G plc, published 18 September 2025; Johannes Jansen, published 28 April 2026
- Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 22 November 2022, joined cases C-37/20 and C-601/20
- Handelsregister documents have no permanent per-document URLs; citations give court, register number, document type and dates
Officers
Directors and officers of Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft
This entity no longer has a management board. While it was registered as Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft under HRB 42722 at the Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen am Rhein it had a Vorstand (management board) and an Aufsichtsrat (supervisory board), and the general representation rule recorded on that sheet was that the company was represented by two members of the Vorstand or by one member of the Vorstand together with a Prokurist. That sheet was closed on 9 October 2015 on the change of legal form into a Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien. The sheet for the continuing entity, HRB 64616 at the same court, records a different arrangement: “Die Gesellschaft wird durch die persönlich haftende Gesellschafterin vertreten” — the company is represented by its personally liable shareholder. There is no Vorstand of this entity and no managing director of it.
The registered representative is a legal entity, not a natural person:
| Name | Registered role | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| HORNBACH Management AG, Annweiler am Trifels, Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz HRB 31653 | Persönlich haftender Gesellschafter (personally liable shareholder, the general partner of a KGaA; the Komplementärin). A legal entity. | Registered since entry 1 on HRB 64616, registered 9 October 2015; no termination entry | HRB 64616, chronologischer Abdruck |
The register for HRB 64616 also records holders of Prokura, a statutory commercial power of representation that is not a directorship. Each is recorded as Gesamtprokura exercisable jointly with a personally liable shareholder:
| Name | Registered role | Status | Registered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manfred Kummer | Prokurist (Gesamtprokura, jointly with a persönlich haftender Gesellschafter) | Current; no cancellation entry | Entry 1, 9 October 2015 |
| Mirko Sawary | Prokurist (Gesamtprokura, jointly with a persönlich haftender Gesellschafter) | Current; no cancellation entry | Entry 1, 9 October 2015 |
| Hubertus Kunz | Prokurist (Gesamtprokura, jointly with a persönlich haftender Gesellschafter) | Current; no cancellation entry | Entry 1, 9 October 2015 |
Two further Prokura entries on the same sheet have been cancelled and the holders are not current: Ralf Kunz, Prokura erloschen registered 27 November 2019, and Thomas Wieder, Prokura erloschen registered 18 January 2023.
The natural persons who actually conduct the business do so as members of the Vorstand of the general partner, HORNBACH Management AG, whose registered object, per HRB 31653 at the Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz, is to act as personally liable shareholder of HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA and to assume liability for and the conduct of its business, and which is not permitted to carry on any other business. The annual report for 2025/26 states that this board consisted of three members at the end of the financial year, and that the supervisory board of the KGaA has no right to appoint it — it is appointed by the supervisory board of HORNBACH Management AG. The three current members, each confirmed on the chronological register print for HRB 31653 with no termination entry, are:
| Name | Role | Responsibilities per annual report 2025/26 | Registered appointment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albrecht Hornbach | Vorsitzender des Vorstands of HORNBACH Management AG (chairman of the management board) | Chair; building-materials trade and real estate | Entry 1 on HRB 31653, registered 23 March 2015 |
| Erich Harsch | Mitglied des Vorstands of HORNBACH Management AG (member of the management board) | DIY and garden centres; public relations | Entry 12 on HRB 31653, registered 5 June 2023 |
| Dr. Joanna Kowalska | Mitglied des Vorstands of HORNBACH Management AG (member of the management board); described by the issuer as Chief Financial Officer | Finance, accounting, tax, group controlling, risk management, internal audit, legal, compliance, investor relations | Entry 16 on HRB 31653, registered 26 August 2025 |
The entity has its own supervisory board, which is not recorded in the commercial register. The annual report for 2025/26 names the Aufsichtsrat of HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA as Dr. John Feldmann (Vorsitz, chair), Martin Hornbach (stellvertretender Vorsitz, deputy chair), Simone Krah, Simona Scarpaleggia, Vanessa Stützle and Melanie Thomann-Bopp. The same report states that this supervisory board is obliged to monitor the conduct of the business but may normally neither issue rules of procedure for the management nor draw up a catalogue of management measures requiring its consent, and that it does approve the annual financial statements and note the annual plan. The report also lists occupations outside the group for these individuals, which are occupations and not offices held in this company and are therefore not reproduced as roles here.
Nationality is not disclosed. The German commercial register does not record the nationality of registered representatives, and the annual report does not state it; nationality, country of residence and correspondence address are separate matters and none has been inferred from another or from a name. The register does record a place of residence and a date of birth for each natural person, and neither is reproduced here.
Recent officer changes
- Dr. Joanna Kowalska was appointed to the Vorstand of HORNBACH Management AG, the general partner, with effect from 15 August 2025 per the annual report 2025/26; the appointment was registered at the Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz under HRB 31653 on 26 August 2025.
- Karin Dohm ceased to be a member of the Vorstand of HORNBACH Management AG with effect from 31 March 2025 per the annual report 2025/26; the termination was registered at the Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz under HRB 31653 on 7 April 2025. She is not a current officer of either company.
- The Prokura of Thomas Wieder for HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA was cancelled (Prokura erloschen) by entry 5 on HRB 64616, registered at the Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen am Rhein on 18 January 2023. He is not a current Prokurist.
Data availability
Full, with the composition of the register and of the issuer’s reporting understood. The German commercial register publishes the complete current and historical record of this entity’s own registered representatives: the personally liable shareholder and the holders of Prokura, each with its date of registration and, where applicable, its date of cancellation, so tense is taken from the filing rather than assumed. The register does not record supervisory board members, and it does not record the individuals who manage the KGaA, because those sit on the board of the general partner and appear on that company’s own register sheet; both have been read directly here. Supervisory board composition has been taken from the issuer’s annual report. The absence of a Vorstand on this entity’s own sheet is a feature of the KGaA legal form and is not evidence that the company has no directors.
Sources
- Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen am Rhein, HRB 64616, chronologischer Abdruck (entries 1 to 8), retrieved 6 October 2026
- Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen am Rhein, HRB 42722, chronologischer Abdruck (entries 1 to 12), retrieved 6 October 2026
- Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz, HRB 31653, HORNBACH Management AG, chronologischer Abdruck (entries 1 to 16), retrieved 6 October 2026
- HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA, Geschäftsbericht 2025/26: statement on corporate governance, section 8 Organe der Gesellschaft (supervisory board of the KGaA; management board of HORNBACH Management AG and members’ responsibilities and dates); section 2.2.2 on the powers of the supervisory board
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Group Structure
Group structure of Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft
The entity registered as Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft under HRB 42722 at the Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen am Rhein continues, after the change of legal form registered on 9 October 2015, as HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA under HRB 64616 at the same court, and the relationships below are those of that continuing entity. Each relationship is taken from a commercial register entry or from the company’s audited annual report; percentages are stated as at 28 February 2026, the end of the financial year 2025/26.
| Entity | Relationship | Holding | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| HORNBACH Management AG, Annweiler am Trifels, Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz HRB 31653 | Personally liable shareholder (persönlich haftende Gesellschafterin) and the parent that consolidates this entity. The annual report states that HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA and its subsidiaries are included in the consolidated financial statements of HORNBACH Management AG, which are published in the Unternehmensregister. | No share capital. The annual report states that the personally liable shareholder participates neither in the profit and loss nor in the assets of the KGaA. | HRB 64616 entry 1; HRB 31653 entry 1; annual report 2025/26 |
| Hornbach Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, Annweiler am Trifels, Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz HRB 3300 | Highest entity in the published chain. Holds all shares in the personally liable shareholder, and is also a direct shareholder of this entity. Under the articles of the KGaA it must hold more than 10 per cent of this entity’s share capital and at least 50 per cent plus one share in HORNBACH Management AG. | 100 per cent of HORNBACH Management AG; 37.5 per cent of the share capital and general-meeting voting rights of this entity, a figure the issuer states includes ordinary shares held by Hornbach family members whose voting rights the Treuhandgesellschaft exercises | HRB 3300, chronologischer Abdruck; annual report 2025/26, group structure chart and statement on corporate governance |
| HORNBACH Baumarkt AG, Bornheim bei Landau, Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz HRB 2311 | Direct subsidiary. Prepares its own consolidated financial statements, which are consolidated into those of this entity. Not listed: its own annual report states that its shares traded in the Prime Standard on Xetra and in Frankfurt am Main under ISIN DE0006084403 until the end of 28 February 2022, are no longer admitted to the regulated market, and are still traded in the open market (Freiverkehr) of the Hanseatische Wertpapierbörse Hamburg. Its register sheet remains current; no transfer of minority shareholders’ shares (squeeze-out) is recorded on it and minority shareholders still hold 4.7 per cent. | 95.3 per cent (prior year 95.3 per cent); the annual report states there was no increase in the holding during 2025/26 | HRB 2311, chronologischer Abdruck; annual report 2025/26, notes to the consolidated financial statements and group structure chart; HORNBACH Baumarkt AG Geschäftsbericht 2025/26 |
| HORNBACH Immobilien AG, Bornheim | Direct subsidiary. Holds retail property that is predominantly let within the group; the annual report states that 98 per cent of its 2025/26 rental income of EUR 91.9 million came from letting within the group and that this sub-group has no workforce of its own. | 100 per cent; the annual report describes this entity as sole shareholder (Alleingesellschafterin) | Annual report 2025/26, notes to the consolidated financial statements and group structure chart |
| HORNBACH Baustoff Union GmbH, Neustadt an der Weinstraße | Direct subsidiary. Builders’ merchant and building-materials trade; the annual report names its operating subsidiaries as Union Bauzentrum Hornbach GmbH, Ruhland-Kallenborn & Co. GmbH, Robert Röhlinger GmbH and Ets. Camillie Holtz et Cie. SA, each therefore an indirect subsidiary of this entity. | 100 per cent; the annual report describes this entity as sole shareholder (Alleingesellschafterin) | Annual report 2025/26, notes to the consolidated financial statements and group structure chart |
| Hornbach OHG, Bornheim | Historical relationship, not current. The general partnership that had existed since 12 March 1953 and that was converted into this stock corporation by shareholders’ resolution of 17 March 1987 under the German Transformation Act. Its register sheet, HR B 2722 NE at the Amtsgericht Neustadt, was replaced by HRB 42722 when the register was transferred to electronic form on 16 September 2005. | Not applicable | HRB 42722 entry 1, chronologischer Abdruck |
The annual report states that the complete list of consolidated companies, including further domestic and foreign subsidiaries, is set out in the notes to the consolidated financial statements; the table above covers the direct holdings and the chain above this entity only. No relationship has been inferred from a shared name, shared branding, a shared address or a shared officer: the Hornbach name appears on all of the entities above, but each relationship listed is evidenced by a register entry or by the audited annual report.
Recent structural changes
- 9 October 2015: the entity was converted from an Aktiengesellschaft into a Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien by way of a change of legal form (Formwechsel) under the resolution of the general meeting of 9 July 2015. Entry 12 on HRB 42722 records the conversion and the closure of that sheet; entry 1 on HRB 64616 records the same conversion and opens the new sheet. HORNBACH Management AG, incorporated under articles of 26 February 2015 and first registered on HRB 31653 on 23 March 2015, was entered as the personally liable shareholder on the same date.
- First quarter of the financial year 2025/26 (1 March to 31 May 2025): HORNBACH Baumarkt d.o.o. Beograd, Serbia, was founded and consolidated for the first time, within the HORNBACH Baumarkt AG sub-group. The annual report states that this change to the scope of consolidation had no material effect on the group’s net assets, financial position or results.
- Fourth quarter of the financial year 2025/26 (1 December 2025 to 28 February 2026): HORNBACH Immobilien AG acquired 100 per cent of the shares in HIAG Fastigheter i Göteborg Syd AB, Gothenburg, Sweden, which was consolidated for the first time within the HORNBACH Baumarkt AG sub-group.
Data availability
Full for the chain above this entity and for its direct holdings. The commercial register publishes the personally liable shareholder with its own court and register number, and the register sheets for HORNBACH Management AG, Hornbach Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mbH and HORNBACH Baumarkt AG have each been read directly and are each current. The direct subsidiaries and their percentages are published in the audited annual report, which also publishes a complete list of consolidated companies not reproduced here, and the parent that consolidates this entity is named in the same report together with the register in which its consolidated statements are published. HORNBACH Immobilien AG and HORNBACH Baustoff Union GmbH are evidenced here from the annual report rather than from their own register sheets, which were not retrieved. The holding in HORNBACH Baumarkt AG is stated at 95.3 per cent in the annual report and the complementary 4.7 per cent minority is shown in the issuer’s own structure chart; the remaining 0.03 per cent of rounding between the 95.33 per cent figure used in the issuer’s investor presentation and the 95.3 per cent figure in the annual report has not been reconciled and no more precise figure is asserted.
Sources
- Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen am Rhein, HRB 64616, chronologischer Abdruck (entries 1 to 8), retrieved 6 October 2026
- Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen am Rhein, HRB 42722, chronologischer Abdruck (entries 1 to 12), retrieved 6 October 2026
- Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz, HRB 31653, HORNBACH Management AG, chronologischer Abdruck, retrieved 6 October 2026
- Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz, HRB 3300, Hornbach Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, chronologischer Abdruck, retrieved 6 October 2026
- Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz, HRB 2311, HORNBACH Baumarkt AG, chronologischer Abdruck (entries 1 to 90), retrieved 6 October 2026
- HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA, Geschäftsbericht 2025/26: Grundlagen des Konzerns, group structure and shareholders chart as at 28 February 2026; notes to the consolidated financial statements on the basis of consolidation and changes in the scope of consolidation
- HORNBACH Baumarkt AG, Geschäftsbericht 2025/26: general information on the company, register number and listing history
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft do?
Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft was the registered name of a German stock corporation entered at the Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen am Rhein under HRB 42722, seated in Neustadt/Weinstrasse. That register sheet is closed: entry 12, registered on 9 October 2015, records that the company was converted by way of a change of legal form (Formwechsel), under the resolution of the general meeting of 9 July 2015, into HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA, registered at the same court under HRB 64616. A Formwechsel does not create a new legal person, so this is the same entity under a new name and legal form, and that sheet is current. Its registered object, identical on both sheets, is the management of a trading, services and real-estate undertaking: establishing, acquiring and operating large-format retail outlets, in particular DIY stores and home-improvement centres with or without garden centres, garden markets and other specialist retail businesses; related retail and wholesale trade; manufacturing and processing the products traded; asset management and the acquisition, management and disposal of interests in domestic and foreign undertakings; providing management and other services; and acquiring, developing, building on, using, managing and disposing of land. Separately, the group founded by the Hornbach family dates its origin to 1877; that is a founding year of the family firm and not the registration date of any stock corporation. The predecessor general partnership, Hornbach OHG of Bornheim, had existed since 12 March 1953 and was converted into the stock corporation by shareholders' resolution of 17 March 1987, first registered on 15 May 1987.
Who owns Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft?
The continuing entity is a Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien, so its members fall into two groups. The personally liable shareholder, HORNBACH Management AG, holds no share capital at all: the annual report states that it participates neither in the profit and loss nor in the assets of the KGaA. The whole of the EUR 48,000,000.00 share capital, 16,000,000 no-par bearer ordinary shares of a single class, is held by limited shareholders (Kommanditaktionaere), so for this issuer a percentage of share capital and a percentage of general-meeting voting rights coincide. The issuer's group structure chart as at 28 February 2026 shows Hornbach Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung (Annweiler am Trifels, Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz HRB 3300) at 37.5 per cent and a free float of 62.5 per cent; the issuer's own footnotes state that the 37.5 per cent includes ordinary shares held by Hornbach family members whose voting rights the Treuhandgesellschaft exercises, and that the free float likewise includes ordinary shares held by family members, so the 37.5 per cent is a pooled voting position rather than shares registered to the Treuhandgesellschaft alone. Under the articles the Treuhandgesellschaft must hold more than 10 per cent of the share capital. Voting-rights notifications published by the issuer under sections 33 and 38 of the German Securities Trading Act, each against a total of 16,000,000 voting rights, record Finda Oy (Helsinki) at 12.64 per cent indirectly through Finda Telecoms Oy on 4 May 2023, M&G plc (London) at 7.15 per cent indirectly on 11 September 2025, and Johannes Jansen at 3.01 per cent indirectly through Aurelio Holding B.V. on 22 April 2026. Those are voting-rights figures at different dates, are not restated to a common date and are not additive with the free-float figure. No German commercial register shareholder list exists for this entity: a KGaA files no Gesellschafterliste, and holdings below 3 per cent of voting rights are not individually disclosed, so what is published is not the full shareholder base.
Who is Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft's UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner)?
No ultimate beneficial owner can be established from the sources used, and none is asserted. Control of this entity does not run through its shareholder base in the way it would for an Aktiengesellschaft: the annual report states that the personally liable shareholder, HORNBACH Management AG, manages the business and represents the company, that the supervisory board of the KGaA has no right to appoint that company's management board, and that the board is appointed by the supervisory board of HORNBACH Management AG instead. A holding of share capital therefore does not by itself confer control, and no fixed percentage threshold has been used to infer beneficial ownership. The highest entity in the published chain is Hornbach Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung, which holds all shares in HORNBACH Management AG and 37.5 per cent of this entity's share capital; it is a limited liability company, a legal entity rather than a natural person, and is not assumed to be the beneficial owner. Its own members are not named in the chronological register print for HRB 3300 at the Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz, which records only its registered managing directors, its registered object and share capital of EUR 550,000.00; that object expressly includes pooling the interests and votes of its members, which indicates a plurality of family members rather than one controlling holder, but no individual percentage is published there. The German Transparenzregister was not consulted, and general public access to it was annulled by the Court of Justice of the European Union in its judgment of 22 November 2022 in joined cases C-37/20 and C-601/20, access since being conditional on a demonstrated legitimate interest. The absence of a named beneficial owner reflects the sources used and those access rules, not an absence of beneficial owners.
What is Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft's company registration number?
Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft's registration number is HRB 42722 Ludwigshafen (Rhein), filed with Company Data Enrichment in Germany. Its current status on the register is active.
Is Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft still an active company?
Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft's status on Company Data Enrichment is listed as active.
What is Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft's registered address?
The registered address on file for Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft is Germany.
What legal structure is Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft registered as?
Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft is registered as a Public Limited Company in Germany.
What is Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft's revenue?
Two separate levels, both for the financial year 2025/26 which ran from 1 March 2025 to 28 February 2026. At entity level, the separate financial statements of HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA under the German Commercial Code (HGB) report revenue of EUR 1,931 thousand (prior year EUR 2,054 thousand), which the company states arises mainly from recharges of material and personnel costs to affiliated undertakings, income from investments of EUR 71.0 million (prior year EUR 80.4 million), a net profit for the year of EUR 73.1 million (prior year EUR 61.0 million) and total assets of EUR 745.9 million at 28 February 2026. At consolidated level, the IFRS consolidated financial statements report net sales of EUR 6,434 million, up 3.8 per cent, of which EUR 3,240 million was generated elsewhere in Europe, EBITDA of EUR 486 million, EBIT of EUR 256 million, adjusted EBIT of EUR 265 million, a pre-tax result of EUR 201 million, earnings per share of EUR 8.66 and an average workforce of 20,968 full-time equivalents. The consolidated figures are not the legal entity's own trading results. For the first six months of 2026/27, to 31 August 2026, the company reported consolidated net sales of EUR 3,816.2 million, up 6.0 per cent, and adjusted EBIT of EUR 285.6 million, up 4.9 per cent.
Is Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft listed on a stock exchange?
Yes. The annual report for 2025/26 states that the share capital of EUR 48,000,000.00 is divided into 16,000,000 no-par bearer ordinary shares of a single class with a notional EUR 3.00 each, and that those shares are admitted to trading in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under ISIN DE0006083405 and WKN 608340, on the Frankfurt and Xetra venues, under the stock market code HBH (Bloomberg HBH:GR, Reuters HBH.DE). The listing is held by the continuing entity under its current name, HORNBACH Holding AG & Co. KGaA, not under the former name Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft. The issuer states that the shares are included in the SDAX index, and the annual report uses the SDAX as the share's benchmark index. First issue was on 3 July 1987, originally as a preference share of HORNBACH AG. At 28 February 2026 the company held 1,018 of its own shares in treasury, leaving 15,998,982 shares outstanding, with a closing price for the financial year of EUR 86.00 and market capitalisation of EUR 1,375.9 million. A second listed layer in the same group has ended: HORNBACH Baumarkt AG, a 95.3 per cent subsidiary, states in its own 2025/26 annual report that its shares traded in the Prime Standard on Xetra and in Frankfurt am Main under ISIN DE0006084403 until the end of 28 February 2022, are no longer admitted to the regulated market, and are still traded in the open market (Freiverkehr) of the Hanseatische Wertpapierboerse Hamburg. Its figures are not this entity's and the two must not be conflated.
Who are the officers/directors of Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft?
This entity has no management board and no managing director. While registered as Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft under HRB 42722 it had a Vorstand and was represented by two board members or by one board member together with a Prokurist; that sheet closed on 9 October 2015. The sheet for the continuing entity, HRB 64616 at the Amtsgericht Ludwigshafen am Rhein, records instead that the company is represented by its personally liable shareholder. That representative is a legal entity, not a person: HORNBACH Management AG, Annweiler am Trifels, Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz HRB 31653, registered as persoenlich haftender Gesellschafter (general partner, Komplementaerin) since 9 October 2015 with no termination entry. The register also records three current holders of Prokura, each as Gesamtprokura exercisable jointly with a personally liable shareholder: Manfred Kummer, Mirko Sawary and Hubertus Kunz. Prokura is a commercial power of representation, not a directorship. Two further Prokura entries have been cancelled and the holders are not current: Ralf Kunz (registered 27 November 2019) and Thomas Wieder (registered 18 January 2023). The natural persons who conduct the business do so as members of the Vorstand of the general partner, confirmed on HRB 31653 with no termination entry: Albrecht Hornbach as Vorsitzender des Vorstands (chairman of the management board, registered 23 March 2015), Erich Harsch as Mitglied des Vorstands (member of the management board, registered 5 June 2023) and Dr. Joanna Kowalska as Mitglied des Vorstands, described by the issuer as Chief Financial Officer (registered 26 August 2025, effective 15 August 2025). Karin Dohm ceased to be a board member with effect from 31 March 2025, registered 7 April 2025, and is not current. The entity's own Aufsichtsrat (supervisory board) is not recorded in the commercial register; the annual report for 2025/26 names Dr. John Feldmann as chair, Martin Hornbach as deputy chair, and Simone Krah, Simona Scarpaleggia, Vanessa Stuetzle and Melanie Thomann-Bopp as members. Nationality is not disclosed by the German register or by the annual report and has not been inferred.
Does Hornbach Holding Aktiengesellschaft have a parent company or subsidiaries?
Yes, in both directions. Above this entity: HORNBACH Management AG (Annweiler am Trifels, Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz HRB 31653) is its personally liable shareholder and, the annual report states, the parent that consolidates it, with HORNBACH Management AG's own consolidated financial statements and group management report published in the Unternehmensregister; it holds no share capital in the KGaA. Hornbach Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung (Annweiler am Trifels, Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz HRB 3300) holds all shares in HORNBACH Management AG and 37.5 per cent of this entity's share capital, and is the highest entity in the published chain. Below this entity, as at 28 February 2026: HORNBACH Baumarkt AG (Bornheim bei Landau, Amtsgericht Landau in der Pfalz HRB 2311), a direct subsidiary at 95.3 per cent, unchanged in 2025/26, which prepares its own consolidated financial statements and is no longer listed, its shares having traded in the Prime Standard until the end of 28 February 2022 under ISIN DE0006084403 and now trading in the open market of the Hanseatische Wertpapierboerse Hamburg, with minority shareholders holding 4.7 per cent and no squeeze-out recorded on its register sheet, which remains current; HORNBACH Immobilien AG (Bornheim), a wholly owned direct subsidiary holding group retail property, of whose EUR 91.9 million rental income in 2025/26 some 98 per cent came from letting within the group; and HORNBACH Baustoff Union GmbH (Neustadt an der Weinstrasse), a wholly owned direct subsidiary whose operating subsidiaries Union Bauzentrum Hornbach GmbH, Ruhland-Kallenborn & Co. GmbH, Robert Roehlinger GmbH and Ets. Camillie Holtz et Cie. SA are therefore indirect subsidiaries. Historically, the predecessor Hornbach OHG of Bornheim, in existence since 12 March 1953, was converted into this stock corporation by shareholders' resolution of 17 March 1987. Recent changes in the scope of consolidation: HORNBACH Baumarkt d.o.o. Beograd, Serbia, was founded and first consolidated in the first quarter of 2025/26, and HORNBACH Immobilien AG acquired 100 per cent of HIAG Fastigheter i Goeteborg Syd AB, Gothenburg, Sweden, in the fourth quarter of 2025/26. The annual report publishes a complete list of consolidated companies including further domestic and foreign subsidiaries.
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