Heidi Chocolat AG, Niemetz Sweden bombs

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Heidi Chocolat AG, Niemetz Sweden bombs
legal form
founding 1930s
(current legal form)
Seat Vienna
management Gerhard Schaller
Number of employees 70 (2014)
sales 4,600,000
Branch Food manufacturer
Website www.niemetz.at

Niemetz Sweden bombs
New plant in IZ-Süd (November 2015)

The Heidi Chocolat AG Niemetz Sweden bombs , formerly Walter Niemetz candy factory - manufacture of sugar, chocolate, confectionery and dry baked goods GmbH & Co KG is a Austrian confectionery manufacturer.

The company, also known as Walter Niemetz confectionery manufactory, goes back to the café and confectionery founded by Edmund Niemetz in Linz in 1890 - at a time when the Viennese coffee houses were being established . In May 2013, the production was sold to the Swiss Heidi Chocolat AG, which is an indirect subsidiary of the Austrian Meinl Group through the Romanian holding KEX Confectionery .

Niemetz is best known in Austria for the production of Swedish bombs , Manja (a hazelnut cream bar with chocolate glaze ) and Swedy (a peanut cream bar with chocolate glaze ). It is only produced in Wiener Neudorf, the products are sold in almost all European countries. The former Konditorei Niemetz Konditorei-Café Linz was operated until November 27, 2014 with a branch on the corner of Fadingerstrasse and Mozartstrasse. In Salzburg , the Niemetz Konditorei-Café Salzburg is a former branch at Herbert-von-Karajan-Platz 11 .

history

Edmund Niemetz 'son Walter Niemetz founded in 1930 (according to other sources in 1935) in Vienna Highway factory . In 1926 Walter Niemetz created the Swedish bomb with his wife Johanna .

At the beginning of January 1940, the Walter Niemetz confectionery factory - manufacture of sugar, chocolate, confectionery and long-life baked goods OHG was founded. In April 2008, the OHG was transformed into today's operative company Walter Niemetz Süßwarenfabrik - manufacturing of sugar, chocolate, confectionery and long-life bakery goods GmbH & Co KG . The general partner is the Niemetz Süßwaren Produktion GmbH, founded in 2006 .

1985 Ursula Niemetz, the daughter opened the company founder Walter in Salzburg the Konditoreicafe W. u. J. Niemetz to the horse pond . In 1989 she went to New York and opened a branch there for the distribution of frozen confectionery.

After his father's death in 1992, Niemetz returned to Vienna and took over the family business together with her partner Steve A. Batchelor. He had been managing director since 2011 and held 20 percent of the company. Ursula Niemetz holds 80 percent of the company. Foreign companies were operated in Wolfratshausen in Germany (Niemetz GmbH) and in New York in the USA (Niemetz USA Inc.) .

In 2012 the company ran into such serious financial difficulties that it could no longer pay its employees their wages. Shortly before the turn of the year, the tax office finally filed for bankruptcy due to tax debts, whereupon Niemetz applied for the conclusion of a restructuring plan. First, the company presented a restructuring plan with a cash quota of 20% for the creditors, payable in two years, but then increased the offer to a cash quota of initially 75% and finally 95%, probably because there were numerous interested buyers (among others Manner and the Heindl Confectionery). For this, the company would have had to raise money in the amount of almost the entire company debt, namely just under 4.2 million euros. Since this did not succeed by the deadline set on May 21, 2012, bankruptcy proceedings were opened. Very shortly afterwards, on May 22nd, Heidi Chocolat acquired the bankruptcy estate for allegedly 5.25 million euros.

After the Niemetz building was sold at the time of the old owner and had to be vacated, Heidi Chocolat AG moved to Wiener Neudorf to the industrial center of Lower Austria South , where production has been taking place since 2016.

There was a legal dispute over the use of the name Niemetz , which the daughter of the company founder Ursula Niemetz wanted to continue to use. Heidi Chocolat has bought all material and immaterial goods in this regard .

Web links

Commons : Walter Niemetz Süßwarenfabrik  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ [2] Kurier, June 16, 2014
  3. ↑ [3]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. KSV1870 extract@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.anony.ws  
  4. ↑ [4] Press release correction
  5. ↑ a b c d W. Niemetz confectionery factory - production of sugar, S.-, K.- u. D. GmbH & Co KG, FN 6946s. Entry in firmenabc.at, accessed September 27, 2011.
  6. ↑ Sweden bombs
  7. ↑ The Swedish bomb leaves Vienna , Der Standard, September 9, 2015
  8. ↑ Excerpt from the commercial register ( Memento of the original dated November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Commercial Register of the Canton of St. Gallen @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hrazg.ch
  9. ↑ The press
  10. ↑ a b Niemetz wanders to Wiener Neudorf orf.at, July 30, 2014, accessed July 30, 2014.
  11. ↑ [5] Linz Wiki
  12. ↑ a b According to information on the company website.
  13. ^ Edicts
  14. ↑ a b See Wirtschaftsblatt, April 1996.
  15. ↑ a b Niemetz Ursula.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Entry in the Who's Who of European women. Retrieved September 27, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.frauen-whoiswho.ch  
  16. ↑ [6] Cash - Das Handelsmagazin, cash.at, February 1, 2013, no longer available December 19, 2019.
  17. ↑ Niemetz: The Chronology. ORF.at, April 9, 2013, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Felix Hörlsberger, Christian Ritschka: Practical aspects of a company purchase out of bankruptcy. In: Newsletter 2/2013. DORDA Rechtsanwälte GmbH, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
  19. ^ Legal dispute about Niemetz in the NÖN of July 12, 2016, accessed on July 15, 2016.