Casali (company)
Casali is a brand of the Austrian confectionery manufacturer Manner . It goes back to a company of the same name that was taken over by Manner in 1970. Since then, Manner has been selling chocolate bananas, rum pralines and other sweets under the name Casali.
history
The roots of the Casali company go back to 1792. It was then that Joseph Casali founded the company in Trieste that produced rosolio (rose (blossom) liqueur), rum and punch . Casali spirits and liqueurs were sold throughout the monarchy. In 1804 the son Julian Casali took over a company that was already known throughout the empire and also supplied the Austrian imperial court.
During the French wars at the beginning of the 19th century, the economic situation in Trieste worsened, so that Julian Casali asked Emperor Franz I to move the entire company to Vienna in 1810 . After the approval, Casali built a new production facility in Vienna at today's Margaretenstraße 91.
In 1863 the company became the property of the nephew Joseph Coloquatti. He named the company in “J. Casalis Nephew ”.
In 1913 the company was sold to Adolf Beer. He and his three sons successfully led the company through the First World War . The Beer family expanded production to include confectionery products. This is how the well-known chocolate bananas and other sweets were made.
In 1935 the company moved to a larger company building in Favoriten . The production program included waffles , biscuits and candy boxes .
After the "Anschluss" , Casali was Aryanized . During the Second World War , the factories on Laxenburger Strasse were badly damaged by bombs.
After the end of the war, the company was returned to the Beer family. But after the family had already built a new confectionery factory in Venezuela , the Austrian company was sold. In 1955 it was bought by Franz Andres, who had founded the Napoli company in 1948 , and the companies merged. This made Casali-Napoli the second largest confectionery manufacturer in Austria after Manner.
Liqueur specialties and brandies as well as alcoholic sweets were still produced. The famous Mozart balls were also made by Casali.
In 1970, the Casali-Napoli company was bought by Manner, making the group Austria's market leader.
Products
One of the most famous Casali products is the chocolate banana . This sweet was invented or developed during the First World War. Adolf Beer developed a mousse with a banana flavor. Wrapped in chocolate, it was also made into a banana shape.
It was produced in this way until the 1960s. At that time it was first filled with real banana pulp. In the 1980s, a license agreement was Chiquitabananen closed its logo from then on was installed along with the writing "course with Chiquita bananas" on the box. This was given up in early 2015 in favor of Fairtrade International ; Since then, Casali has been advertising with their seal and with the fact that a total of 58% of the ingredients in the confectionery are produced in accordance with the standards defined by “Fairtrade International”. The bananas used for production have not been assigned to a specific exporter since then .
Another well-known product are the rum-coconut balls, which, unlike conventional rum balls, consist of a chocolate-coconut mass and are liquid filled with rum.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.salvator-apo.at/rose_pur_rosolio.html Apotheke Eisenstadt near the castle, accessed on October 18, 2014
- ↑ https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20150417_OTS0020/casali-schoko-bananen-ab-sofort-fairtrade-zertIERT-bild
- ↑ https://www.leadersnet.at/news/16439,schokobananen-von-casali-jetzt-fairtrade.html