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Glockenbrot Bäckerei GmbH & Co. oHG

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legal form Open trading company
founding 1904
Seat Cologne
management Dirk Höfer
Telerik Schischmanow
sales 270 million euros
Branch food industry
Website www.glocken-baeckerei.de
As of December 31, 2011

The Glocken Bäckerei (original spelling in capital letters) is a bakery with its administrative headquarters in Cologne . The company was founded in Offenbach am Main in 1904 and has been part of the Rewe Group since 1986 . The Glocken Bäckerei produces bread and baked goods in Frankfurt am Main and Bergkirchen in Upper Bavaria for the Group's Rewe , Penny and Nahkauf stores as well as for its own branches.

history

In 1904, master baker Georg Dinges and his wife Wilhelmine founded the Offenbach bread and rusk factory. Twelve employees produced baked goods that were delivered in horse-drawn carriages. The driver rang a bell to attract customers. This developed into the company's trademark . In 1930 Otto Georg Dinges, the son of the founding couple, joined the Glocken Bakery. The Second World War ruined plans to expand beyond the Frankfurt area.

The production facilities remained almost undamaged, so that the Glocken Bäckerei was able to resume operations in 1945. Sliced ​​bread was brought onto the market for the first time in 1952 . In 1954, the company added toast imported from the Netherlands to its range, which became a bestseller. In 1962, the Glocken Bäckerei's first fully automatic bread roll baking system went into production, and several fully automatic baking lines were added in the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1986 the family business was sold to the Rewe Group. At that time the company had 225 employees and an annual turnover of 23 million marks . Four years later, the foundation stone was laid for the new headquarters in Frankfurt am Main. With the relocation of the production facilities from Offenbach am Main and Bad Homburg vor der Höhe to Frankfurt am Main, the number of employees tripled. A Cinemaxx cinema was later built on the old factory site in Offenbach am Main .

In 2009, the Glocken Bäckerei bought a plot of land in the Bergkirchen industrial park, on which it built a new production and logistics center. In the same year, the insolvent Östringer bakery Rothermel was taken over, which enabled the company to further expand its position in the market for baked goods. However, due to the limited branch network and tough competition, Rothermel was parted with again in 2015. There were also changes in the Glocken Bäckerei's business strategy.

structure

Since 1992 the company has been run in the legal form of a general partnership. The company name is "Glockenbrot Bäckerei GmbH & Co. oHG". Its shareholders are a management GmbH and a group KGaA , i.e. exclusively corporations . The annual financial statements of the Glocken Bäckerei are consolidated in the consolidated financial statements of the Rewe Group.

Dirk Höfer and Telerik Schischmanow (2019) are managing directors of the Verwaltungs-GmbH of the Glocken Bäckerei. Höfer heads the Rewe Group's strategic purchasing department for meat and sausage products as well as bread and baked goods, while Schischmanow is the group’s general manager. The authorized signatories of the Glocken Bäckerei are Thomas Bings, Stefan Bosbach and Michael Krüger.

Products

The range of the Glocken Bäckerei includes around 350 bread and baked goods. These are sold in Rewe and Penny stores as well as in the company's own branches under house, retail and premium brands. The company relies primarily on rolls , croissants , baguettes , ciabattas , crab and pretzels . In recent years, the proportion of semi-finished products that are baked at home has increased significantly. Organic food according to the organic regulation also play a decisive role. Glocken Bread does not contain any preservatives or artificial flavor enhancers.

Locations

The company's baked goods are located in Frankfurt am Main and Bergkirchen. Most of these work automatically. There are also two logistics centers in Neuhausen auf den Fildern and Achern that function as transshipment warehouses. Glocken Bread supplies all of Germany from the four locations. In addition to supermarkets, customers also include their own branches and bakery shops.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ a b Petra Kirchhoff: From the commissary bread to the toast to the ciabatta . The bell bakery in Fechenheim looks back on its hundredth anniversary. It all started in Offenbach. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . January 29, 2004, p. 35 .
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  7. ↑ Laura Wagner: Bread on the running belt . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . July 12, 2012, p. 13 .
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  12. ↑ Oliver H. Eberhardt: Former bakery becomes a multiplex cinema: A glass palace is to be built on the Glockenbrot site in Offenbach for 90 million. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . September 24, 1997, p. 1 .
  13. ↑ Glockenbrot bakery buys property for new bakery in Bergkirchen . In: Immobilien Zeitung . April 21, 2009.
  14. ↑ Groceries : Rewe wants to bake bigger rolls. In: Handelsblatt. January 16, 2009, accessed November 15, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Rewe takes over a large bakery . In: Bonner General-Anzeiger . January 17, 2009, p. 10 .
  16. ↑ Rewe separates from the Rothermel large bakery. In: The world. October 7, 2015, accessed November 15, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Rothermel traditional bakery on the verge of collapse. In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung. October 10, 2015, accessed November 15, 2018 .
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  25. ^ Ilo Reuning-Daniel: Dancing cutting knives score the baguette . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 22, 2001, p. 26 .