Garms Baustoffe - der Baufuchs

Name

Garms Baustoffe - der Baufuchs

Legal name

Garms Baustoffe GmbH & Co. KG

Website

https://garms.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Garms Baustoffe – der Baufuchs is a family-owned German building materials retailer operating two warehouse/retail yards in Lower Saxony (Dötlingen-Aschenstedt and Ganderkesee-Schierbrok). It sells construction supplies and garden products on a B2B basis to trade professionals and contractors, primarily via warehouse pickup and print catalog distribution.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Dötlingen-Aschenstedt

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Garms Baustoffe is a regional building materials and garden products retailer operating two physical locations in Lower Saxony, Germany. The company supplies construction professionals and trade customers with building materials ("Bauen") and seasonal garden supplies ("Garten"), fulfilled through on-site pickup, walk-in trade sales, and an optional delivery-to-site service.

Product overview

Garms Baustoffe - der Baufuchs is a building materials retail company operating two legal entities: Garms Baustoffe GmbH & Co. KG (based in Dötlingen-Aschenstedt) and Dierk Garms Baustoffhandel GmbH & Co. KG (based in Ganderkesee-Schierbrok). The company operates as a traditional B2B construction materials supplier, selling building supplies and garden products to customers. Their public-facing offering includes garden catalogs (Garten-KATALOG 2026 and Garten-MAGAZIN 2026) and physical retail locations open Monday-Friday 07:00-17:30 and Saturday 07:00-12:00. The AGB indicates they sell movable goods (building materials) primarily to business customers (entrepreneurs, legal entities under public law, or special funds under public law).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Building materials ("Bauen") Core product line of construction and building materials supplied to trade professionals and public-sector buyers from the two Garms Baustoffe yards in Lower Saxony; fulfilled through on-site pickup, trade-counter sales and delivery-to-construction-site.
• Garden products ("Garten")

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• OBI: Major German DIY/home-improvement chain with broad garden and building-materials assortment; competes for overlapping prosumer and weekend-project demand in the same northern Germany trade areas.
• BayWa Baustoffe: Building-materials retail arm of BayWa AG with broad southern-Germany footprint; competes for trade contractor spend against regional independents like Garms and is a natural benchmark for assortment, delivery, and digital ordering expectations.
• Hornbach: Publicly listed specialist retailer for building and DIY in Europe with a strong professional/prosumer positioning that overlaps with Garms' trade focus; a benchmark for the digital and pricing pressure facing regional independents.
• BAUHAUS: Germany's largest specialty home-improvement and DIY retail chain; overlaps with Garms in garden and basic building materials but operates at vastly larger scale and competes primarily on accessibility and assortment breadth.
• Hellweg: Mid-sized German DIY and building-materials retailer; comparable on assortment and target customer overlap with Garms' garden-and-trade mix.

Regional players

• Dehner: Leading German garden-center and lifestyle retailer; relevant peer for the garden-catalog side of Garms' business, where seasonal plant, outdoor living, and garden product demand overlap.

Direct peers

• Raab Karcher (STIHL BrandWorld / building-materials network): Long-standing German specialist Baustoffhandel chain focused on professional builders and contractors; directly competes with Garms for the same B2B trade customer profile and assortment of structural and finishing materials.
• Eurobaustoff: European alliance of independent building-materials merchants; a direct structural analog to Garms in that membership pools purchasing power for sub-scale regional dealers, making it the most relevant comparable on business model.
• Hagebau: Central buying cooperative for independent German Baustoffhandel dealers; sets the procurement, marketing, and (increasingly) digital standards for the type of regional family-operated building-materials specialist that Garms Baustoffe represents.

Emerging players

• hagebau Handelsgesellschaft für Baustoffe (regional member dealers): Individual Hagebau-affiliated Baustoffhandel stores in northern Germany are the closest operational analogs to Garms (size, geographic focus, B2B/professional mix) and the most likely direct competitors in the same micro-markets.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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