Capo (company)
| CAPO Austrian Headwear GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1912 |
| Seat | Egg |
| management | Thomas Merk, Thomas Löpenhaus-Boras |
| Website | www.capo-austria.com |
The Capo company is a manufacturer of hats and caps founded in Egg ( Vorarlberg , Austria ) in 1912 .
history
On March 25, 1912, the company was founded as the “Vorarlberger Strohhutfabrik” in the Bregenz Forest, where large straw hats for making hay and the traditional black traditional hats for women (“Schäohüte”) were made in the region.
In 1938 the Sommer brothers from Stuttgart took over the factory. In the 1960s, the name was changed to "hat factory" and paper, felt and hay hats were produced. Since 1971 hats and fashionable cloth caps have been produced under the brand name "Capo".
As an outfitter for the Austrian national ski team in the successful 1970s, the company gained media presence and international recognition.
In 1989 the factory was taken over by Doppelmayr and Michael Doppelmayr was managing director for two years. The company was soon sold to the Swiss company Wunderlich & Sonderegger . After the company went bankrupt in 1998, Markus Kopf and Bertold Bischof continued operations in a newly constructed building in Egg (Melisau). the parent company was sold to Sutterlüty Handels GmbH and production was relocated from Egg to Chemnitz in 1998.
On July 1, 2015, the company was sold to Strickmoden Bruno Barthel from Chemnitz (Germany), which is the market leader in the field of baby and children's hats in Germany with its maximo brand. Today, CAPO is largely produced at the location in Germany and attaches great importance to made in Germany & Europe.
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Individual evidence
- ^ 1980s straw hat
- ↑ Men's hat made of wool felt
- ↑ Capo takes off his hat to the Eggern (October 21, 2017)
- ↑ Bruno Barthel takes over Capo (November 19, 2015)