Official Recaro Merchandising important part of brand management

The official Recaro online shop offers products in four categories: Apparel, Accessories, Home & Lifestyle, and Sport & Travel. The three collections of Originals, Classic, and Urban are intended to address various Recaro target groups, appealing to those who have already come into contact with the brand in the existing business areas of Automotive, Kids, Gaming, and Aircraft Seating. These target groups include young car enthusiasts as well as classic car aficionados, business travelers, sports fans, and gamers. “With our wide range of merchandising products, we are also looking to get new customers interested in the brand. With our merchandising shop, we are creating another point of contact with the public as well as more visibility for the brand through the products,” Hartmut Schürg says.

Within Recaro Holding, Recaro merchandising will be operated as a profit center, functioning in a manner that is both market and cost oriented. This new unit was established in an extremely agile fashion, with the entire process taking about a year. It was accelerated by a young in-house team consisting of the two Corporate Merchandising Managers Karolina Kern and Salome Sämann. “At the Recaro Holding headquarters in Stuttgart, we design our products with great attention to detail. We are launching three collections as a first step, but we are already working on expanding our portfolio,” Salome Sämann explains. The products will initially be available only in Germany. “However, we will begin offering our product range in other countries in Europe in just a few months. By the end of the year, we want to be available worldwide,” Karolina Kern adds.

The new merchandising range is part of the active brand management at Recaro Holding, which, as licensor of the Recaro brand, is continuously engaged in the development of new business areas. “We track product innovations and market trends as well as examine business models and market potential. In addition to the economic aspects, we pay particular attention to ensuring that the potential business areas are a good match for the expertise and strengths of the brand,” Hartmut Schürg says. “In the selection of applications, we always put our focus on the ability of Recaro to help improve our customers’ performance through innovative seating solutions.”

In tandem with the official Recaro merchandising shop at https://recaro-shop.com, the official Recaro Automotive fan shop has also gone online at https://shop.recaro-automotive.com: the collection, which includes premium-quality clothing and accessories, is geared toward performance drivers, classic car enthusiasts, and motorsport fans.