Opavia

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Opavia-LU, sro

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legal form sro
founding 1840
Seat Prague , Czech RepublicCzech RepublicCzech Republic 
Number of employees 1,500 (2009)
sales 4.28 billion CZK (2009)
Branch Food
Website www.opavia-lu.com

Opavia-LU, sro is a Czech manufacturer of sweets with headquarters in Prague and the main factory in Opava . The company has been owned by Mondelēz International since 2007 . The internationally best known product are the Marienbad wafers .

history

The company was founded in 1840 by Theodor Fiedor as Theodor Fiedor spol. sro founded. Together with his wife Amalie, he baked waffles with waffle irons on fire and then sold them. It was not until 1880 that their son Theodor started industrial production. From then on, the waffles were made in ovens by bakers. Theodor Fiedor's premature death due to kidney failure endangered the family property, but his wife Maria continued to run the company and increased production capacity .

After the Second World War, the state enterprise Čokoládovny np was established in 1947 , which was converted into the joint stock company Čokoládovny, as in 1991 .

In 1992 the Czech government approved the privatization of the company. During this time, Danone and Nestlé's Copart joint venture received 43% of the shares. Gradually, Copart became the main shareholder with 90% and thus the owner of Opavia.

At the beginning of 1999 the company had economic success again and thus escaped the recession.

In July 2007 Danone announced that it would be selling the company to Kraft Foods. In November, the group announced that the sale had been successful.

Production sites

In addition to the main location in Opava, the company has two others in the Czech Republic.

Products

Numerous brands belong to the company. Only dry pastries are made. The most traditional products include Kolonáda (wafers) and Tatranky (waffles with a chocolate edge ).

  • Disco (double biscuit with filling)
  • Diskito (biscuit with filling)
  • Dukla (waffle with chocolate filling)
  • Fidorka (waffle with chocolate icing)
  • Florenta (waffle)
  • BeBe (biscuit)
  • Zlaté oplatky (wafer with chocolate filling)
  • Horalky (waffle with chocolate edge)
  • Miňonky (waffle with chocolate icing)
  • Piškoty (biscuits)
  • PiM's (biscuit with jam and chocolate icing)
  • Telka (salted nuts and cookies)
  • Vlnky (waffle with wave pattern and filling)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profil společnosti (company profile) , accessed on July 8, 2010.
  2. ↑ Stručně z historie (company history), accessed on July 8, 2010.
  3. ↑ Výrobní závody (factory locations), accessed on July 8, 2010.
  4. ↑ Hlavní značky společnosti OPAVIA (main brands of Opavia) , accessed July 8, 2010.

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