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Beate Uhse Group BV (formerly Beate Uhse AG) is a German industry group which focuses on selling adult entertainment in the form of sex toys, lingerie, clothing and pornography. It is the most successful company in the German sex industry,
It operates in the three business units Retail, Mail Order and Wholesale. The Entertainment division was sold to tmc Content Group AG in September 2016.
It currently has over 1,500 employees. It is active in 60 countries and has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 1999. The company's founder, Beate Uhse-Rotermund, remained the chairwoman of the company until her death in 2001.
Since 2020, the company has been listed as Beate Uhse Group BV and headquartered in Veendam, Netherlands.
History
The company was founded by former German war-time pilot and sex pioneer Beate Uhse-Rotermund in 1946 and started out as a distributor of pamphlets on family planning called Schrift X (Document X) which was a major success. In 1962, the company opened the world's first sex shop in Flensburg, West Germany.