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Article: Beate Uhse drooping as Germans go off sex shops
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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THREE years after Europe's largest erotic-shops chain, Beate
Uhse, pulled the plug on its UK stores, it is finding that sex isn't
selling any more.
Internet porn, late-night blue movies on TV, an unsuccessful
attempt to break into the US market and a failed bid to appeal to
women shoppers with a separate chain of stores have hit the German-
based company hard.
Germany's Manager Magazine reports this week, ahead of the
company's official figures to be published later this month, that
two-thirds of its German stores did worse in 2006 than the previous
year.
The company, which entered the UK market in 2002 thinking it
would set up a chain to rival Ann Summers, withdrewthree years ago
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