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It's curtains for an icon of the German retail world - The major mail order company Quelle is broke

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Constanze TressOctober 20, 2009

It is the end of a shopping icon in Germany. A major mail-order retailer here is about to be shut down for good. Attemps to find a buyer for the struggling Quelle mail order company failed. Quelle is a company that discovered the internet too late and one that could not withstand the financial crisis.

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