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Kronenbrot GmbH

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founding 1865
Reason for dissolution Bankruptcy as of July 31, 2019
Seat Würselen , Germany
management Marcus Opitz, Stephan Weber
Number of employees 980 (2019)
sales 120 million euros (2018)
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The Kronenbrot GmbH was a large bakery based in North Rhine-Westphalia Würselen .

history

The company was founded in 1865 by Franz Joseph Mainz in Würselen in the Aachen city region as a craft bakery and began to supply the area around Aachen for the first time under the name Kronenbrot in 1915, managed by his grandson Franz Mainz.

Company building

With around 1,000 employees at production sites in Würselen, Cologne and Witten, Kronenbrot GmbH was the largest supplier of baked goods in North Rhine-Westphalia and supplied around 3,000 food retailers and bulk consumers in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate , Belgium , the Netherlands and France . This made it one of the five largest baked goods manufacturers in Germany.

Since 1985, Kronenbrot GmbH has been awarded the Federal Honorary Prize of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture for the quality of the baked goods every year .

At the beginning of 2017, funds advised by the British investment firm Signal Capital Partners of the former Deutsche Bank manager Elad Shraga took over the company with all three production sites. In June 2019, Kronenbrot filed for bankruptcy, but operations continued for the time being. On July 25, 2019, it was announced that the company will cease operations on July 31, 2019 and that all employees will be laid off. The Kronenbrot plant in Witten was taken over by Harry-Brot .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ssu / dpa: Kronenbrot: Bakery bankruptcy ensures empty shelves at Aldi Süd. In: Spiegel Online . July 30, 2019, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ State Secretary Dr. Müller awards Kronenbrot Federal Honor Award, (25th award in a row) on backwelt.de - News from June 24, 2010
  3. ↑ LebensmittelZeitung online, January 30, 2017
  4. ↑ https://www.t-online.de/finanzen/boerse/news/id_85916984/baeckereigruppe-kronenbrot-steller-insolvenzmeldung.html
  5. ↑ Christoph Pauli: Traditional Bakery Kronenbrot: Everything is off! 1000 employees lose their jobs. Retrieved July 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Katrin Terpitz: Bakery chain: 40 out of 100 Oebel branches have been saved despite bankruptcy. In: handelsblatt.com . October 22, 2019, accessed May 16, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 20.9 "  N , 6 ° 10 ′ 53"  E