Bolle (supermarket)
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| legal form | various |
| founding | 1933 |
| resolution | 2011 |
| Seat | Berlin |
| Branch | Grocery trade |
Bolle was a traditional supermarket chain in Berlin that emerged from the C. Bolle dairy (founded by Carl Andreas Julius Bolle ) after it was taken over by the Werhahn family in 1933. The retail stores were built in the 1970s as a second mainstay alongside the increasingly less economical dairy .
In the second half of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, Bolle belonged to Safeway and there were also some Bolle markets outside of Berlin.
After the monetary union in 1990, the company, which in the meantime belonged to co op AG , was taken over by the East Berlin consumer cooperative in Berlin and the surrounding area, but was sold again a short time later. In 1996, 66 of these supermarkets were taken over by Spar . From 2004 to 2011 there were several branches in Berlin, most of which were renamed Extra stores that also carried the Extra range. In 2011 these branches were renamed to Rewe .
Bolle became known nationwide when on May 1st, 1987 a branch at Görlitzer Bahnhof in Berlin's Kreuzberg district was looted and then set on fire ( see May 1st in Kreuzberg ).
The “O” in the Bolle logo contained a stylized milkman (“Bimmel-Bolle”), made up of the letters B, O, L, L and E.
Others
- The hit song Bolle recently traveled to Whitsun does not go back to the coachmen of the up to 250 Bolle wagons, but is older. The term Bolle (onion , stocking hole or, in dialect, child) was already widely used as a nickname . As such, however, the term gained new popularity when the coachmen were also called Bolle and the nickname was associated with an image .
- In the feature film Run Lola Run, Manni (one of the main characters, played by Moritz Bleibtreu ) raids a Bolle branch (Berlin-Charlottenburg: Osnabrücker Straße / Tauroggener Straße) in order to steal 100,000 marks. At that time it was actually already a Spar store (from January 1, 2007: Edeka ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Chronicle of the German consumer cooperatives. (PDF; 1.7 MB) Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives V., November 10, 2003, p. 43 , archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; Retrieved March 22, 2012 .