KaDeWe is a large store of exclusive brands with more than 60,000 square meters of sales area that attracts around 50,000 customers daily. The owners are, with 49.1%, the Austrian real estate group Signa, and, with 50.1% the Central Group, backed by the Chinese-Thai billionaire Chirathivat clan.
In 2020, the company had received a subsidiary guarantee from the states of Berlin and Hamburg for a loan of up to €90 million during the coronavirus pandemic.