Musik Hug sets new accents in retail
Musik Hug closes its branch on Marktgasse/Spitalgasse in St. Gallen. At the same time, a piano store will open in the eastern Swiss metropolis in February 2014. The music store will also be renewing its webshop.
With around 900 square meters of sales space spread over two floors, the largest specialist store in Eastern Switzerland for acoustic grand and upright pianos, digital pianos, electronic music accessories and selected DJ and home studio equipment is to be built on Fürstenlandstrasse in St. Gallen.
In the last five years, there has been a massive shift in the sale of sound carriers in particular towards online sources, writes Musik Hug. For this reason, the webshop with over 350,000 sheet music and music books is being fundamentally revised. Soon, around 400,000 classical, jazz and pop/rock CDs, special instrumental offers and accessories will also be available online.
The closure of the St. Gallen Musik Hug branch as a result of the restructuring may lead to a reduction of 11 to 14 jobs, which will be accompanied by a redundancy plan. The affected employees and apprentices in particular will be offered a new position in the full-range stores if possible.
