Adler Modemärkte AG, based in Haibach near Aschaffenburg, is a fashion retail chain with a total of 132 stores in Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland. The company was founded in 1948 by Wolfgang ADLER as a small clothing factory in Annaberg in Saxony. The first collection consisted exclusively of coats and was sewn by the family in an attic. Wolfgang ADLER himself traveled through the country in so-called sales buses and sold his goods. The company moved from the GDR to Engen near Konstanz in 1959. It was here that Wolfgang ADLER founded Adler Mäntel KG, which in 1966 achieved a turnover of one million DM. In 1967 the company moved to Haibach near Aschaffenburg. At that time goods were distributed by truck to dealers who sold them on commission. In 1970 the first fashion shop was opened in Haibach; further locations in Neckartenzlingen near Stuttgart and Eching near Munich followed.