Hakle

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Hakle GmbH

logo
legal form GmbH
founding 1928
Seat Dusseldorf , Germany
management Volker Jung
Number of employees 225 (March 2020)
sales approx. 80 million euros (2019)
Website www.hakle.de

Employee magazine "Die Rolle"
A part of the hygiene paper production
A picture of the first toilet paper roll with a guaranteed 1000 sheets per roll

Hakle is a company in the paper industry based in Düsseldorf . The name Hakle was formed from the first letters of the name of Hans Klenk , the company's founder. Klenk founded one of the first toilet paper factories in Germany in 1928 in Ludwigsburg .

history

Initially, the toilet paper was produced as crepe paper - the hygiene paper standard of the time. Hakle became known for having brought toilet paper rolls with a guaranteed number of 1000 sheets onto the market for the first time. From 1958, the softer tissue paper, which is more comfortable on the skin, spread in western Germany - coming from America. In 1972, Hakle introduced three-ply, four-ply in 1982 and Hakle Feucht toilet paper in 1977 .

In 1954 the company moved from Ludwigsburg in Swabia to Mainz on the Rhine. Then Hakle expanded down the Rhine from Mainz to Düsseldorf. In 1964 a new plant for the production of hygiene paper was built on a paper production site in Düsseldorf-Reisholz that had existed since 1905. Since then, the Hakle paper has come from Düsseldorf. At the new location, the toilet paper was made from soft tissue .

In 1984 the Hakle company, which had been family-owned until then, was sold to the Swiss Attisholz Group , and in 1999 it was resold to the Kimberly-Clark Group and renamed Hakle-Kimberly GmbH . In 2006 the Hakle factory in Reichenburg in Switzerland was closed. The paper mill on Ingelheimer Aue in Mainz was taken over by the Westfälische Papierfabrik (WEPA) on April 1, 2006 and run as WEPA Mainz GmbH . The rights to the brand Hakle remained with Kimberly-Clark and the Hakle -Toilettenpapierproduktion was in Kimberly-Clark -Werk Dusseldorf-Reisholz concentrated. At the end of 2012 / mid-2013, Hakle was sold to the private equity company palero capital GmbH (Munich) / palero invest Sàrl (Luxembourg) as part of the Kimberly-Clark “Global Tissue Restructuring Plan” . The company then traded as Hakle GmbH . The holdings of palero capital GmbH were later sold to " Crosslantic and other investors". Since then, Hakle has been run as a family business again.

The Hakle , DICK & DURSTIG and Servus brands were also sold, while the Hakle brand remained with Kimberly-Clark for Austria and Switzerland . The Hakle Feucht brand initially remained with Kimberly-Clark and was offered in Germany under their Cottonelle brand from 2014 . On June 1, 2016, the Hakle Feucht brand was reintroduced to the German market - as a revised and modernized product line.

Hakle GmbH has been a family-run company again since 2019 : Volker Jung took over the company at the beginning of the year together with other investors. The annual production is around 50,000 tons of tissue paper. In 2019, Hakle launched the first paper-wrapped toilet paper on the German market and was awarded the international PPI Award in the Tissue Product category for a new type of hygiene paper made from fast-growing regional raw materials.

Known employees

From 1959 to 1983 Herbert Bonewitz from Mainz , who was responsible for the company's own magazine Die Rolle from 1960 , worked in many areas of the Hakle company.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint Hakle website. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b A few numbers on Hakle Hakle website. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  3. ↑ Thomas Corrinth: We want the leadership role . In: VIVID, edition 04/2019, accessed on July 9, 2020.
  4. ^ Hakle history ( Memento from February 23, 2004 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Information from the Hakle archive at the Hakle company location in Düsseldorf.
  6. ↑ Steffen Fründt: The temporary death of "Hakle feucht" . In: Welt Online . February 12, 2014, welt.de, accessed on July 28, 2015.
  7. ↑ Thomas Corrinth: We want the leadership role . In: VIVID, edition 04/2019, accessed on July 9, 2020.
  8. ↑ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly-Clark , accessed on July 9, 2020.
  9. ↑ Aline Wüst: Coronavirus: This is why our greed for toilet paper is important. In: blick.ch . March 28, 2020, accessed March 29, 2020.
  10. ↑ Steffen Fründt: The temporary death of "Hakle feucht" . In: Welt Online . February 12, 2014, welt.de, accessed on July 28, 2015.
  11. ↑ Former holdings , palero.de, accessed on May 19, 2019.
  12. ↑ Steffen Fründt: The temporary death of "Hakle feucht" . In: Welt Online . February 12, 2014, welt.de, accessed on July 28, 2015.
  13. ↑ Hakle is moist back. In: Lebensmittelzeitung. accessed on August 12, 2016.
  14. ↑ Thomas Corrinth: We want the leadership role . In: VIVID, edition 04/2019, accessed on July 9, 2020.
  15. ↑ PPI Awards , accessed July 9, 2020.
  16. ^ Vita - Herbert Bonewitz Agentur & Verlag Bonewitz, accessed on March 24, 2020.