Fabrics And Textiles

In 1949, just one year after the currency reform, the textile merchant Georg Kultschytzky founded his fabric business in Stuttgart. In the fifties, the studied lawyer and forestry manager developed the business rapidly and created his own successful miracle. In the first post-war years, clientele initially consisted of local tailors and sewing shops as well as many private individuals. By 1953 the fabric warehouse already comprised 12 garages. In the mid-fifties, the fabric business was transformed into a nationwide wholesale business. Wholesale locations were opened in Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach. From there, the clothing manufacturers in North Rhine-Westphalia region were supplied. In addition, numerous representatives as well as family members travelled to clientele located throughout Germany in the sixties.

The individual wholesale warehouses soon became too small and so in 1981 the company relocated to a new large premises with professional textile logistics in Mönchengladbach. Then in 1985, second generation Timotheus Kultschytzky took the helm. At first, a customer base was established in Switzerland. The new markets that opened up after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc posed a major new challenge. Timotheus Kultschytzky was one of the first to recognise the signs of the times and initially opened up the Polish market. In the mid-nineties, the company was already represented by travellers and agents in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the former CIS states. Russia and the Ukraine are still important sales markets for the company today. In addition, the Middle East, Japan and Scandinavia have developed into other important sales markets in recent years. While developing the international market,, Kultschytzky established itself as the main supplier of the fabric departments of Hertie, Karstadt and Kaufhof, the major national department stores of the time, in the mid-eighties.

In 2006, the Mönchengladbach location also became outgrown. The company relocated to the neighbouring town of Viersen. A professional high-bay warehouse with an area of over 2,000 m² still guarantees the fast delivery of over 20,000 different articles. Several million metres of fabric are always in stock.