German multi-brand apparel and footwear retailer with catalog, online and stores
Walbusch-Gruppe runs the Walbusch, Avena, Mey&Edlich and LaShoe brands across mail order, e-commerce and physical stores. Its stack pairs a Java/Spring Boot, Oracle and RabbitMQ backend with an unusually deep QA toolset (Selenium, Ranorex, JMeter, TestRail, HP ALM), signaling heavy in-house testing. Hiring is accelerating and skews junior and sales-heavy, aligned with a store modernization push and a PLM rollout.
Walbusch-Gruppe is a family-rooted fashion group headquartered in Solingen, Germany, with the Walbusch brand founded in 1934. The group includes Walbusch, wellbeing-focused Avena, menswear label Mey&Edlich, and LaShoe, a Düsseldorf-based brand of comfortable women's shoes for sensitive feet. It sells to consumers through mail order, online shops and retail stores. The company employs between 1,001 and 5,000 people and hires in Germany across sales, product and marketing functions.
Walbusch-Gruppe uses Java, Spring Boot, RabbitMQ, Oracle and PL/SQL, plus Azure, Qlik, Google Analytics 4 and Looker Studio, with testing tools like Selenium, Ranorex, JMeter and TestRail.
The group includes Walbusch, Avena, Mey&Edlich and LaShoe, the latter based in Düsseldorf and focused on comfortable shoes for women with sensitive feet.
Current initiatives include a PLM implementation, modernizing its stores, fit testing for new collections, seasonal collection planning and restructuring its online shop.
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