After almost 35 years, Uschi Hofmann is giving up her perfumery "Flair" on Gautinger Bahnhofplatz and is retiring.
Because it is unclear what happens to their rented rooms, there is unfortunately no business handover, but a clearance sale.
Gauting
- 42 years of professional experience lie behind the beautician Uschi Hofmann. She has been running the “Flair” perfumery on Bahnhofplatz in Gauting for almost 35 years. But now the time is running out. Uschi Hofmann (70) will close her shop in the next few weeks. Handing over the business was out of the question, as it remains to be seen what will become of the Hotel Simon building complex in which she has rented her rooms. "Therefore I unfortunately have to do a clearance sale," regrets the owner of the well-established perfumery.
Neither the pandemic nor the construction site of the almost completed business and residential complex “Karls” opposite could harm the perfumery. The losses caused by the lockdown were "well overcome" with state aid and deliveries to regular customers in Gautingen, says Hofmann. She thinks that something is finally happening opposite, in the future “Karls”, is “a blessing”. "When I opened in Gauting 35 years ago, they said that the primary school there would be demolished." Like before the business complex with wide screen cinema, bistro, doctor's office and pharmacy, the “Karls” is a blessing for the small shops - “and will bring new customers after the opening”, Uschi Hofmann is convinced.
According to Tim Rosentreter, area manager for dm, the dm drugstore in the new “Karls” will open at the beginning of December, according to the Starnberger Merkur inquiries. “For my business, the dm market is not a competition,” says beautician Uschi Hofmann, “but a high frequency generator.” The independent perfumery owner in Gauting and her colleague Christine Heilander started with passion almost 35 years ago. But she would never have found a successor for the store in need of renovation. It is not even clear whether the building has already been sold to an investor and may be demolished.
Fortunately, she doesn't have to worry about her employees.
They are all housed, says Hofmann.
Beautician Martina Senn, for example, "who has been with us for 20 years", opens her small perfumery "Petit Flair" with cosmetic treatment in "Karls" next to Katrin Uhlmann's "Hair & Beauty" salon - and takes two employees with her.
One of her beauticians moves to a colleague in Germering.
After a long professional life, Uschi Hofmann is also looking forward to her retirement - and is hoping for a good clearance sale in the Christmas business: "I have already written to my customers."
Christine Cless-Wesle