Red October (candy factory)
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1851 (as a pastry shop "Eine") |
| Seat | Moscow , Russia |
| Number of employees | 3033 (as of 2008 ) |
| Branch | Confectionery manufacturer |
| Website | www.konfetki.ru |
The OAO Red October ( Russian Красный Октябрь , Transkription Krasny Oktjabr , German: Red October ) is a Russian manufacturer of confectionery and the name of the factory of the same name in Moscow .
history
1851 opened Brandenburg confectioner Theodor Ferdinand von Einem (1826-1876) from Belzig , a small pastry shop on the Arbat . He employed five people in the “Eine” confectionery, where chocolate and sweets were made. Von Eine met his future business partner in 1857, the German businessman Julius Heuss (1832–1907) from Walddorf in the Black Forest. In the same year they opened a pastry shop together on Theater Square in Moscow.
In 1867 von Eine had his first chocolate factory built together with his business partner Heuss on Sophienufer, directly across from the Kremlin . In 1876 von Eine died childless. In Moscow, a partner Julius Heuss built the largest and most modern confectionery factory in the country at the time on the southern tip of Jakimanka Island. The buildings were built with red brick and the machines were powered by a modern steam engine. In Simferopol , Heuss had candied fruit and jam made in a new factory . Heuss was a very worker-friendly entrepreneur, as he gave his employees continued wages in the event of illness and on church holidays, as well as a lifelong pension after 25 years of service. Apprentices received lessons in reading and writing, learned to play an instrument or were allowed to sing in a choir. In the event of illness, a company health fund covered the costs of medical treatment.
Julius Heuss died in 1907. The Eine company was continued by five of his sons. The company was known for the high quality of its products. She received many awards for her products, including the Grand Prix of the Paris Exposition in 1900 . The sweets and chocolates were given a decorative and sometimes elaborate packaging. One even employed his own composer, Jakov Feldmann. For the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty in 1913, the confectionery company Eine was appointed purveyor to the court .
After the October Revolution , the company was nationalized and in 1918 renamed "State Confectionery Factory No. 1, formerly Eine". In 1922 the company was given the current name “Red October”.
In 1966 the production of the most famous chocolate of the factory "Aljonka" began, whose advertising medium is a well-known little girl. The girl who can be seen on the chocolate packaging really exists, she is the daughter of an employee of the factory who photographed "Aljonka" when she was eight months old.
In 1992 the company was converted into a public limited company. On May 27, 1994, a museum was established on the factory premises. In 2002, Roter Oktober was accepted into the confectionery holding United Confectioners (Объединенные кондитеры, Obedinennye konditery).
In 2007, production was relocated to the north of the city. What was left was the factory museum and a small shop selling Red October sweets . The six hectare site in the best city location was saved from demolition and lucrative new developments. In the converted factory buildings there are now boutiques of fashion designers at affordable rents, a café with video installations, a popular disco with a view of the Moscow River and a television station for Internet television.
Movie
- Red October - Moscow's heart of chocolate. TV report, Germany, 2010, 14:25 min., Script and direction: Roland Strumpf, production: 3sat , first broadcast: December 17, 2010 in 3sat, summary ( memento from May 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) by 3sat.
Web links
- Official website of the company (Russian and English)
- About company - History and Traditions. Company history on konfekti.ru (Russian and English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reports , konfetki.ru
- ↑ a b Eine (family name) / Moscow. In: GenWiki , accessed November 12, 2014.
- ↑ a b c Dana Ritzmann: Sweet memories of the Red October . Eurasian magazine . March 31, 2006. Archived from the original on April 18, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 21, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h About company - History and Traditions ( en ) konfetki.ru. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
- ↑ a b Julius Heuss, a pastor's son from Walddorf. ( Memento from September 6th, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Kirchengemeinde Walddorf , January 10th, 2009, archived.
- ↑ a b c d Moscow's heart of chocolate. ( Memento from August 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: wieninternational.at , August 18, 2010, archived by Internet Archive .
- ↑ Krasny Octyabr. In: uniconf.ru , accessed on November 12, 2014 (Russian)
- ↑ Red October - Moscow's heart of chocolate. ( Memento from May 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: 3sat , December 2010, archived.
Coordinates: 55 ° 47 ′ 13.7 " N , 37 ° 39 ′ 21.3" E