Galeria is negotiating with two bidders. The deadline for submitting binding purchase offers expired at the weekend.

Customers can expect the fall collections to also find their way onto the shelves at Galeria. Despite the bankruptcy, there are no problems with suppliers. Galeria has to be a medium-sized company, but in Essen there are still “corporate structures,” says Stefan Denkhaus, the provisional insolvency administrator of Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof.