Overview
- The Bamberg court put Bierothek GmbH and Bierothek Marketplace GmbH into preliminary insolvency and appointed separate administrators to secure assets and assess options.
- Operations continue for now, with the online shop and the marketplace fulfilling orders, and management needs administrator approval for major decisions.
- Company representatives say investor talks are underway with legal counsel in place, and a decision on a sale, restructuring, or closures is expected in the coming weeks.
- Franchise stores operate as separate businesses that were not included in the filing, and the network has thinned since 2020 with local closures such as Munich in March.
- Nineteen employees have pay covered for three months through Germany’s insolvency wage scheme, as the beer market faces a roughly 6% drop in volume to 7.8 billion liters and a growing share for non‑alcoholic beer above 10%.