About Us
Bogensportshop.eu is operated by BSS GmbH, a young ecommerce company from Aachen, Germany. The online store celebrated its official opening on 1st of December 2018, at that time still as a sole proprietorship. In August 2022, BSS GmbH became the legal successor of the sole proprietorship Tilman Bremer e.K. and thus took over all rights and obligations of the company.
The Beginning
It didn't start with archery accessories. Well, at least not the usual accessories you are thinking of. In 2016, the SICHTKRAFT brand was registered, under which we produced simple, inexpensive and reliable manual scoreboards. Other items such as mounts, flags and signs were quickly added to the product range.The first SICHTKRAFT scoreboards at a local event in 2016
The storage: A tiny space in the basement and the garage
Production at the Lebenshilfe Aachen
We designed a scoreboard specifically for Ultimate Frisbee
Well, you know already what happened next...
The Pandemic
Because it was going so great, we moved at the turn of the year 2019/2020. We now had a proper warehouse for the raw materials of the SICHTKRAFT products and a separate workshop for production. The archery store had been running for about a year as a "side project", but was still relatively small and so did not yet generate any profits.There's no other way to put it: the pandemic has hit us hard. Sales of our SICHTKRAFT brand fell by 80% from 2019 to 2020. From one moment to the next, the market was gone. We were allowed to continue operating as a mail order company, but that doesn't help much, if no one needs your products anymore. And that remained the case until well into 2021, because sporting events were canceled across the board.
So there was nothing left to do but to build up the archery store as quickly as possible to ensure the survival of the company. With an emergency aid from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, we survived 2020. At the beginning of 2021 the archery store was starting to be able to make up for the lost sales. Because we could not afford to hold on to storage and production capacity for years in case "normality" returned, a decision was made in the spring of 2021. The production and distribution of scoreboards and competition equipment under the SICHTKRAFT brand was discontinued..
Bogensportshop now
More than two years after the start of the pandemic, we have recovered from the shock. We've grown extremely quickly in recent years, simply because we had to. So if you ask yourself: Why is there suddenly this retailer, that I haven't heard of before? Now you know why.We care for the simplest and smallest items, with pictures from our own studio
Fast picking of orders with in-house developed software for mobile devices
100% control scan of every item at the packing station
Daily pickup of parcels by DHL and GLS
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