Luxury Store KaDeWe Attracts German Retailer Amid Benko Fallout

  • KaDeWe’s operating business could be worth over €100million
  • Breuninger taps Macquarie as adviser, is open for partners

Shoppers enter the KaDeWe department store in Berlin, Germany.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

German fashion retailer Breuninger is among the suitors eyeing an acquisition of Berlin’s iconic department store KaDeWe in a deal possibly worth more than €100 million ($109 million), according to people familiar with the matter.

Stuttgart-based Breuninger has tapped investment bank Macquarie as adviser and may seek a tie-up with a partner for the deal, which relates to the store’s operating business, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the information is private.