Harry bread

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The Harry-Brot GmbH is a wholesale bakery based in Schenefeld in Hamburg . In 2018, the company achieved sales of EUR 1,006 million with over 4,500 employees at nine locations, making it the largest manufacturer of baked goods in Germany. Subsidiaries of Harry-Brot GmbH are Backshop GmbH and the system catering company Back-Factory .

history

Production site in Hanover

Johan Hinrich Harie, born in the Thirty Years' War , migrated from Bremerhaven to Altona , bought the house and land with the obligation to bake bread, and founded his bakery there in 1688. His sons already called themselves Harry. At the beginning of the 19th century, a miller joined the family in the fifth generation. At that time, the family already owned four shops in Altona. The Navy equipped itself with Harry's ship's biscuit . In 1890, Andreas Harry - in the seventh generation of the founding family - modernized and expanded his company in Altona. Johanna Harry, Franz Andreas Harry's widow, ran the business for 37 years. In 1929 the son Franz Harry took over the Hannoversche Brotfabrik AG (Harry-HaBag). During the Second World War, concentration camp prisoners from the Hanover-Limmer concentration camp, a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg, were forced to produce and to clear the factory building. In 1963 the company was relocated to the green meadow for cost reasons .

In the 1960s, Harry-Brot GmbH began supplying the grocery trade with prepackaged bread and thus became a branded item. In 1970 the company headquarters was relocated to Schenefeld.

Manufacture and distribution

The bread products are baked at ten production sites in Schenefeld, Hanover , Ratingen since 1980, Berlin , Wiedemar , Schneverdingen , Osterweddingen , Troisdorf , Soltau and Witten and sold in over 9,300 stores. There are factory shops at five locations. Harry does not use preservatives during production, but uses emulsifiers in some products . To make the fresh products durable, they are pasteurized .

The range includes various mixed , wholemeal and toast breads as well as sandwiches and rolls for baking.

Around 250 tons of baked goods are produced every day at the headquarters in Schenefeld. The sales area extends across northern , western and eastern Germany . It also exports to Austria , Switzerland , Denmark , France and the Czech Republic .

Web links

Commons : Harry-Bread  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ locations. In: harry-brot.de. Retrieved April 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Facts & Figures. In: harry-brot.de. Retrieved December 26, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Gabriele Hannen: A large bakery with a long tradition. In: Rheinische Post , May 23, 2015
  4. ↑ milestones. In: harry-brot.de
  5. ↑ Nils Schiffhauer: The bakery in XXL format. In: FAZ .net , March 30, 2008
  6. ↑ Bob Geisler: Harry - The baking king from Schenefeld. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , July 13, 2012

Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 18.1 ″  N , 9 ° 50 ′ 7.5 ″  E