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Patrice Wagner was most recently Managing Director of the KaDeWe and the Karstadt Premium Group in Berlin Germany (2002-2009) Hired by the Karstadt Group to reposition the famous KaDeWe (the biggest Department Store on continental Europe), after two successful years, the company decided to found a group of various department stores called “Karstadt Premium Group”. Those were also to be reestablished in the luxury category by him, who restructured these stores and created new ways of positioning them with a new focus on luxury in Germany. 1998-2002 he worked for Galeries Lafayette in Berlin as Managing Director and redeveloped and repositioned the company, which, at that point, had existed for two years. 1990-1998 Wagner held various management positions in the company Breuninger GmbH&Co in Germany.