Brunnenkopp & Staude logistics

Brunnenkopp and Staude Logistik GmbH & Co. KG
legal form	GmbH & Co. KG
Seat	Ronnenberg
Branch	Beverage wholesale

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Well Kopp & perennial Logistics , Logo B & S , formerly also well Kopp William Kopp , is a leading beverage - wholesalers in Lower Saxony .

history

The company was founded by Wilhelm Kopp (born March 9, 1890 in Hanover; † March 29, 1951 there) during the Weimar Republic and in the year of the height of the global economic crisis in 1929. The first company headquarters was Asternstraße in the northern part of Hanover, at whose address Kopp built a factory for the production of lemonade and seltzer water .

During the air raids on Hanover in World War II , the building and the operating and office equipment fell victim to aerial bombs . Nevertheless, in the post-war period the factory was rebuilt and gradually transformed into a trading company with a continuously expanding range of nationally and internationally traded alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages of up to 1500 types. In addition, Brunnenkopp supplied luxury goods and consumer goods for catering establishments.

After the company's founder died in 1951, his son Horst Kopp (1932–2012) took over the company and developed Brunnenkopp into one of the leading beverage wholesalers in Lower Saxony: at the beginning of the 21st century, the company had around 1,300 customers among its customers , including other wholesalers and retailers . The place of business was temporarily the building at Asternstrasse 10 .

After moving to Vinnhorster Weg, the location was relocated to two different operating locations in 2002:

The main focus of the company with the trade of beer and non-alcoholic beverages, the logistics center, the management and administration now found its seat in Ronnenberg , district Empelde ,
while spirits , tobacco products , confectionery and catering supplies were loaded from the Entenfangweg.

After Horst Kopp had withdrawn from day-to-day business at the end of 2008 after around 60 years of management, the Brunnenkopp company had to file for bankruptcy in March 2011 - and in May of the same year it was taken over by the family- run Waldhoff Group . In the same year, around 90 former employees of the company moved from the beverage wholesaler Staude, which had also previously been taken over by the Waldhoff Group, to the 49,000 square meter company premises of Brunnenkopp in Empelde, which also had around 15,000 square meters of hall space.

The merger with the Staude workforce - after the insolvency of Brunnenkopp, the Waldhoff Group initially employed 65 Brunnenkopp employees in September 2011 - went hand in hand with the establishment of what is now Brunnenkopp & Staude Logistik (B & S) as a GmbH and Co. KG . As a result of the merger, B & S, with 900 employees and ten locations, was one of the five largest beverage wholesalers in Germany. At the end of 2011, around 2,500 customers from the gastronomy and hotel sectors within a radius of around 50 kilometers could be supplied from a single source.

While the traditional names of the two former competitors were retained in the new company name, the traditional industry meeting initiated by Horst Kopp in November of each year should also be retained, in the course of emancipation and the management of women, for example in gastronomy, no longer under the old title " Gentlemen's Evening ".

literature

Cheers! Special edition from Hannover live on the 75th birthday of Horst Kopp , 16 pages with numerous illustrations in a special edition from Hannover live , Hannover: Stroetmann Verlag [2007]