Hachez

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Hachez chocolate

logo
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding July 1, 1890
Seat Bremen
management Martin T. Haagensen
Number of employees 360 (2015)
sales 58 million euros (2010)
Branch Chocolate production
Website www.hachez.de

Headquarters in Bremen (2005)

The Hachez Chocolade GmbH & Co. KG is a Bremen company that chocolate and chocolates produced in the upscale segment. Hachez was founded in 1890 and sold to the Danish confectionery group Toms in 2012 . The Feodora chocolate brand has been part of the company since 1953 .

history

On July 5, 1890 in founded Antwerp -trained chocolatier Joseph Emil Hachez the (* 26 November 1862) in Bremen with his partner Heinrich August Friedrich Gustav Linde Bremer chocolate factory Hachez & Co . Joseph Emil Hachez was a great-grandson of Bruges- born Joseph Johan Hachez, who emigrated to Bremen in the 18th century and married the daughter of a successful Bremen merchant in 1785. In 1895 the company moved from Bremen's old town to the old new town on the left of the Weser , where the company's headquarters are still located today. In 1910 Otto Friedrich Hasse joined the company as a partner. In 1923, because of their shape, Hasse created thin chocolate tablets called brown leaves , for which Hachez was best known, and after Joseph Emil Hachez's death in 1933 became the company's sole partner.

During the Second World War , the Hachez factory building was almost completely destroyed and Hasse began to rebuild after the war. Financially this was made possible by a 50% sale of the company in 1953 to the Tangermünde sugar refinery Fr. Meyers Sohn GmbH (since 2002 Zertus GmbH), which had settled in Hamburg after the war and from then on produced chocolate with Hachez in Bremen. In 1987 Hasso Nauck (1951–2017), grandson of Otto Friedrich Hasse, sold the remaining 50% family share to what would later become Zertus GmbH, which took over the company completely. In 1990 Nauck, previously head of marketing at Milka at Jacobs Suchard AG (today Mondelēz International ) from 1987 , joined the Hachez company as managing director together with a colleague from Jacobs Suchard, Wolf Kropp-Büttner. The headquarters of Jacobs Suchard AG (and today that of Mondelēz International) was and is only a few meters from the Hachez factory building in the old new town. In 2000, Nauck took over the Hachez company as part of a management buy-out together with Kropp-Büttner, where he himself held 60% of the shares and his business partner the remaining 40%.

In 2012 Nauck and Kropp-Büttner sold their shares to the Danish Toms group, but initially remained employed as managing directors for Hachez with contracts until the end of 2014 . Nauck gave up his post in January 2013, Kropp-Büttner resigned in September 2013. Both remained with the company in an advisory capacity until their contracts expired at the end of 2014. After the takeover, Hachez was loss making; In December 2014, the company decided to cut jobs at the Bremen location. The company's packaging activities were relocated to Poland at the end of 2014 , with production still taking place in Bremen. In mid-2015, Hachez employed around 360 people in Germany.

On February 28, 2018 it was announced that Toms will be giving up the Hachez plant in Bremen at the turn of the year 2019/20. Production is to take place from Poland from 2020. So far, however, there is no social plan for the employees. The Hachez company premises in Bremen Neustadt are to be sold.

Feodora

In 1826, Friedrich Theodor Meyer founded a sugar refinery in Tangermünde , which continues today under the name Zertus GmbH. In 1910 the company began producing chocolate and pralines under the product name Feodora , named after Princess Feodora of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg . She was the youngest sister of Auguste Viktoria , the last German Empress, who, after Feodora’s death, granted permission to use the name “Feodora”. After the Second World War , the company moved to Hamburg. The chocolate production was continued on behalf of the Bremen company Hachez. After Hachez became involved in 1953, the complete takeover followed in 1987.

Chocoversum

Since 2012, Hachez has been running a permanent exhibition on chocolate production in the Meßberghof in Hamburg under the name “Chocoversum”.

literature

  • Dieter Leuthold: Feodora, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein (1874-1910). Materials for their life picture. With a foreword by Hasso G. Nauck. Wortart, Bremen 2010 (company publication of Feodora Chocolade GmbH & Co. KG Bremen, 80 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeversches Wochenblatt: Magic word “Chocolade” ( Memento from September 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), hachez.de, accessed: September 20, 2015
  2. ↑ The Bremen Chocolate Prince von Hachez . handelsblatt.com, April 1, 2010
  3. ↑ Hachez boss Hasso Nauck posts: “I leave with a good feeling” . weser-kurier.de, January 23, 2013
  4. ↑ Maren Beneke: Danes now lead Hachez alone . In: Weser courier . September 12, 2013 ( online [accessed March 20, 2015]).
  5. ↑ Jörn Hüttmann: Hachez is cutting fewer jobs than announced . In: Weser courier . December 12, 2014 ( online [accessed March 20, 2015]).
  6. ↑ Hachez cuts positions . taz.de, July 24, 2014
  7. ↑ 125 years of chocolate enjoyment . Kreiszeitung.de, July 2, 2015
  8. ↑ Weser-Kurier.de: Hachez moved production to Poland
  9. ↑ Weser-Kurier.de: High debts, outdated infrastructure - Hachez defends production shutdown in Bremen
  10. ↑ Weser-Kurier.de: Production from 2020 in Poland - Hachez employees fight for a social plan
  11. ↑ Weser-Kurier.de: Commentary on Hachez - Bitter
  12. ↑ Buten un Binnen.de: What should happen to the Hachez site?
  13. ↑ Buten un Binnen.de: Hachez leaves Bremen - It's called capitalism
  14. ↑ Buten un Binnen.de: Hachez moves production to Poland
  15. ↑ Buten un Binnen.de: Hachez - "What does the Senator for Economic Affairs actually do?"
  16. ↑ Buten un Binnen.de: negotiations on a social plan in Hachez so far without result