Piatnik
| Viennese playing card factory Ferd. Piatnik & Sons GmbH & Co KG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co KG |
| founding | 1824 |
| Seat |
 Vienna , Austria
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| management | Dieter Strehl |
| Number of employees | 200 |
| sales | EUR 27 million (2010) |
| Branch | Game publisher |
| Website | www.Piatnik.com |
The Viennese playing card factory Ferd. Piatnik & Sons is one of the largest manufacturers of all kinds of playing cards worldwide. Board games, playing cards and puzzles are produced.
history
In 1824 Anton Moser founded a card painting company in Vienna in the 7th district of Vienna . After his death, Ferdinand Piatnik took over the card workshop in 1842/43. When Ferdinand's sons, Adolf and Rudolf, joined the company in 1882, the card painting was renamed Ferd. Piatnik & Sons, Vienna . After Ferdinand Piatnik's death in 1885, the company was continued by his widow and sons.
In 1891 the factory building was built on Hütteldorfer Strasse in the 14th district. In 1896 the company Piatnik Nándor és Fiai was founded as a sister company. Piatnik continues to expand and in 1899 buys the playing card manufacturer Ritter & Cie in Prague. Already in 1923 Piatnik received the irrevocable state award and with it the permanent right to use the federal coat of arms in business dealings. In 1939 the Viennese parent company became the family limited partnership Wiener Spielkartenfabrik Ferd. Piatnik & Sons converted.
After the war, multi-color offset printing was introduced in 1951.
In 1956 the playing card factory expanded its range to include board games and since 1966 puzzles have also been produced.
Piatnik Vienna is now an established large company. Around 25 million card games (including Tarot , Bridge , Préférence , Schnaps cards - double German and French ), a million puzzles and a million board games ( Activity , Tick Tack Bumm , Abalone , Schweinerei , Scrabble ) are sold in over 72 countries. The company offers more than 200 board games and 1000 card game variants.
In 1962 the factory premises in Vienna were expanded to include several reinforced concrete halls, and again in 1985.
In 1990, Activity , an entertainment game for children and adults that was translated into five languages, was released. Meanwhile 15 different variants of the successful party game have appeared. Due to the ProSieben game show Extreme Activity , this variant is now also available as a game.
With Piatnik of America, the first subsidiary was founded in 1989. It was followed by daughters in Germany , the Czech Republic and Hungary .
Today Ferdinand G. Piatnik (4th) and Dieter Strehl run the business and the next generation is already in training. The company has around 200 employees worldwide, including around 150 in Vienna. According to the company, around 10,000 Piatnik board games, 100,000 playing card packages and 4,000 puzzles are sold in over 60 countries around the world every day.
In 1997 the Ferdinand-Piatnik-Weg in Vienna- Penzing (14th district) was named after the founder of the company.
In 2010 over 2 million games, 1 million puzzles and 25 million game packages were produced in Vienna. The turnover was 27 million euros.
Today, Piatnik, with sales subsidiaries in Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the USA, is Austria's largest game publisher and a leading provider of games in Europe. The traditional Viennese company is represented with board games, playing cards and puzzles in 72 countries.
Web links
- Piatnik Homepage (available in different languages)
- Playing card company Piatnik in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Spielemuseum.at: 175 years of Wiener Spielkartenfabrik Ferd. Piatnik & Sons (PDF; 1.8 MB)
- Eva Offenthaler: Set to the right card: the playing cards manufacturer Piatnik Ferdinand I . - Biography of the month on the homepage of the Austrian Biographical Lexicon (July 2015) .
- Entry on Piatnik in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Piatnik & Sons in the Luding games database
- PIATNIK in the game database BoardGameGeek (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Good cards for Piatnik - sales increase of 6.8 percent ( memento of April 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) atwirtschaftsblatt.at of April 27, 2011.
- ↑ Piatnik - history. In: www.piatnik.com. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Activity - How it all began. In: www.piatnik.com. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Piatnik records a successful record at derstandard.at from March 11, 2010.
- ↑ Mirjam Marits (Die Presse): "Austria is a playful country" . In: DiePresse.com . Print edition. Vienna October 30, 2016 ( diepresse.com [accessed November 8, 2016]).