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Bauhaus is a Swiss-headquartered pan-European retail chain offering products for home improvement, gardening and workshop. The name contains the German words ''bauen'' (to build) and ''Haus'' (house), but also alludes to the modernist Bauhaus school and the company's founder and owner, the German billionaire Heinz-Georg Baus. Its first store opened in Mannheim, Germany in 1960. It has 250 stores and franchises across Europe, including Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey. The chain is a sponsor of the International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation (FIBT), including the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Cup competitions, along with the FIBT World Championships. On 22 October 2009, it was announced that the company would be the title sponsor for the 2009–10 Ski Jumping World Cup.〔(22 October 2009 announcement of Bauhaus's announcement as main sponsor of the 2009-10 Ski Jumping World Cup. ) - accessed 26 October 2009.〕 ==Controversy== In 2009, ''Monitor'', an investigative German TV format produced by ARD, revealed that the Bauhaus management used the term "contaminated by works councils" ((ドイツ語:betriebsratsverseucht)) to refer to chain stores with an active works council representing employees' interests. Subsequently, ''betriebsratsverseucht'' was chosen as the German Un-Word of the Year by a jury of linguistic scholars, who thus criticized the presumed inhuman attitude of the Bauhaus management towards its subordinates.〔(Spiegel Online: ''Ein Jahr, ein (Un-)Wort!'' (in German). )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bauhaus (company)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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