Jost-Stefan Heinig is CEO of the major German company KiK Textilien und Non-Food GmbH

KiK

KiK Textilien und Non-Food GmbH is a textile discounter based in Bönen, Germany, founded in 1994 by Stefan Heinig and the holding company Tengelmann Group....

 from Bönen

Bönen

Bönen is a municipality in the district of Unna, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated between Hamm in the north-west and Unna in the south-east.- References :...

 (Germany). KiK came under pressure by dumping salaries and abusing female workers in Bangladesh and other countries in the Third World Countries. Stefan Heinig participates with his Dortmund Firma H. H. Holding GmbH by 65% from TEDi and with 15% an KiK

KiK

KiK Textilien und Non-Food GmbH is a textile discounter based in Bönen, Germany, founded in 1994 by Stefan Heinig and the holding company Tengelmann Group....

. Main shareholder of KiK

KiK

KiK Textilien und Non-Food GmbH is a textile discounter based in Bönen, Germany, founded in 1994 by Stefan Heinig and the holding company Tengelmann Group....

 is the company Tengelmann International GmbH from Mülheim an der Ruhr by 83.02%.

In July 2010 Heinig together with Karl-Erivan Haub, co-owner of Tengelmann, bought the German branch of Woolworth's

F. W. Woolworth Company

The F. W. Woolworth Company was a retail company that was one of the original American five-and-dime stores. The first successful Woolworth store was opened on July 18, 1879 by Frank Winfield Woolworth in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store"...

, insolvent Woolworth GmbH

Woolworth GmbH

Deutsche Woolworth GmbH & Co. OHG is a Frankfurt, Germany based owner of the Woolworths chain of high street shops in Germany and Austria and a former subsidiary of the American F. W. Woolworth Company....

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The KIK-chief Stefan Heinig lives in a fashionable classic and mediterranean villa in Dortmund.

Resume

After finishing the Realschule, Heinig served his apprenticeship as a trading assistant.