Comet fireworks
| Comet Feuerwerk GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1955 (2003 founding of the current form) |
| Seat | Bremerhaven |
| management | Richard Eickel |
| Number of employees | 83 permanent employees (2014) |
| sales | € 53.4 million (2014) |
| Branch | pyrotechnics |
| Website | www.comet-feuerwerk.de |
Comet Feuerwerk is a company in the pyrotechnic industry based in Bremerhaven . Comet imports and sells fireworks .
Comet Feuerwerk has been operating as Comet Feuerwerk GmbH since 2003 and has been a subsidiary of the Hong Kong- based international trading group Li & Fung since January 12, 2005 . Before that, the company belonged to the Nuremberg armaments company Diehl and produced fireworks and ammunition for the German armed forces. The locations were the factory in Bremerhaven on the former Donar factory site and from 1999 after the takeover of Piepenbrock Pyrotechnik also the former pyrotechnical factory Feistel in Göllheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . Today the company no longer has a German production facility.
After Comet had to register short-time work in the spring of 2013 due to the loss of a major customer, the company took over the fireworks division of the former competitor FKW Keller GmbH in August 2013 as part of an asset deal . This puts Comet Feuerwerk in second place with a market share of 35 percent, behind market leader Weco Feuerwerk . Until 2002 the company was the market leader in Germany. Comet generates almost 95 percent of its annual sales in the three sales days before New Year's Eve .
Web links
- Official website
- The parent company Li & Fung
- The rocket man , portrait of Comet managing director Richard Eickel, Manager Magazin , December 30, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c [https: www.bundesanzeiger.de Electronic Federal Gazette ]
- ↑ Donar Werk Bremerhaven-Geestemünde military history on relict.com
- ↑ Kristina Läsker: New Year's Rockets - Knalliges Business , Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 27, 2011
- ↑ Comet loses major customers: Short-time work at the fireworks manufacturer ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Radio Bremen , March 21, 2013
- ↑ Ralf Drews: Wattenscheider fireworks importer Keller files for bankruptcy , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , August 14, 2013
- ↑ The Federal Cartel Office clears the acquisition of the fireworks importer FKW Keller, Bochum, by Comet Feuerwerk GmbH, Bremerhaven, in the first phase. ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of the Federal Cartel Office , July 25, 2013
- ^ Ralf Drews: Competitor takes over Keller Feuerwerk GmbH , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , July 26, 2013
- ↑ Diethart Goos: New thrust with Chinese owners and fresh management , Die Welt , January 19, 2006
- ↑ Jörg Esser: New Year's Eve hit the tills , Kreiszeitung.de , November 28, 2012
