It is the most successful company in the German sex industry,[1] and the country's leading pornography retailer.

In 2004, the combined sales of the Beate Uhse industry group was €280 million, making it the largest distributor of adult-related entertainment and products in the world.

[4] Since 2020, the company has been listed as Beate Uhse Group BV and headquartered in Veendam, Netherlands.

The company was founded by former German war-time pilot and sex pioneer Beate Uhse-Rotermund[1] in 1946 and started out as a distributor of pamphlets on family planning called Schrift X (Document X) which was a major success.

[1] When pornography was finally made legal in West Germany in 1976, Beate Uhse was well-prepared with a widely known and respected brand name and an established mail order business.