Schlumberger (sparkling wine cellar)
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | AT0000779061 |
| founding | 1842 |
| Seat | Vienna |
| management | Eduard Kranebitter |
| Number of employees | around 220 |
| sales | EUR 163.8 million (2014) |
| Branch | Food Wholesale |
| Website | www.Schlumberger.at |
The Schlumberger AG is a listed Austrian companies in the Swiss Sastre group, the champagne after the méthode traditionnelle produced. The company's headquarters are at Heiligenstädter Strasse 43 in the 19th district of Vienna .
history
The company was founded in 1842 by Robert Schlumberger . He was the first producer of sparkling wine using the traditional champagne method in Austria and managed to make his company a supplier to the royal courts of Europe from its founding until his death in 1879. He set up a production facility in Bad Vöslau . Some of the wine is still harvested there. Schlumberger's "Vöslauer Goldeck" is the oldest protected wine brand in Austria. Schlumberger was also the first to grow the well-known Bordeaux grape varieties Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot in Austria . The wine, which grows on ten hectares in Bad Vöslau, quickly became successful as a private cellar and is still sold today as the Schlumberger private cellar .
After his death, his three sons Robert (II.) , Otto and Gustav Schlumberger von Goldeck took over the company. Otto Schlumberger married the daughter of the wine merchant August Schneider, himself an Austro-Hungarian court purveyor since 1889. In 1894 Otto took over the company from his father-in-law and received the purveyor privilege in 1895. Otto's son Robert (III.) Then took over the entire business and moved to Döbling.
Robert Schlumberger von Goldeck was drafted into the army in the First World War and at the same time managed the business. The company was able to continue to expand, but after the collapse of the monarchy, the traditional sales market broke off. The company almost collapsed and could only be saved by a loan from an English bank. The old production facility in Bad Vöslau had to be liquidated, but some locations could be retained. Robert (III.) Schlumberger died in 1944, shortly before the end of the war. His son Robert (IV.) Took over the business in difficult times. In the years of reconstruction after 1945, the company was able to recover. In 1973 he sold Schlumberger to Underberg ; the company has been listed on the Vienna stock exchange since 1986.
2 million bottles are stored in the sparkling wine cellar in Döbling. The main building offers visitors a gastronomic service, guided tours in the cellar and a museum.
In August 2009, Schlumberger Wein- und Sektkellerei GmbH sold appelt GmbH & Co KG, and thus one of the leading sales organizations for branded goods in Austria, to competitor Maresi . Since then, Schlumberger has increasingly focused on its core competencies in the areas of sparkling wine and spirits production as well as on the distribution of international beverage brands. In 2013 the spirits business was outsourced to the Gurktaler Aktiengesellschaft, which is also listed on the stock exchange . In December 2014 Frederik Paulsen took over the majority of shares in Underberg and incorporated the company into the Swiss Sastre Holding, which he controls.
From mid-2019, the company will gradually cease production in Vienna-Heiligenstadt and relocate it to Müllendorf in Burgenland . Construction work is to begin at the end of February 2019, and the sparkling wine is to be produced in Müllendorf from 2021.
Vöslauer Goldeck
“Vöslauer Goldeck” is Schlumberger's best-known product and the oldest legally protected wine brand in Austria. Sparkling wine found its way into literature: the Norwegian writer Björnsterne Björnson wrote to his daughter from Schwaz in Tyrol in 1894 : “ We drank Vöslauer sparkling wine - and I don't like the best champagne as much as this one. ", John Galsworthy praises the Vöslauer in his play" Escape ", which premiered in 1926, and the French Paul Morand mentions it in his 1957 essay volume" Fin de Siecle "as a typical drink of the turn of the century elite.
Another well-known brand is Hochriegl , which Schlumberger bought from Kattus in 2009 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Schlumberger reduces staff , in the NÖN state edition week 23/2015.
- ↑ Robert SCHLUMBERGER: Austria's oldest legally protected wine brand Vöslauer Goldeck. For the 120th anniversary of this trademark registration on January 3, 1879. Vienna 1979. (PDF) 1979, accessed on March 10, 2014 (quoted in “In the past, work was more convenient!” Viticulture and the working world of winemakers in the Lower Austrian thermal region at the beginning of 21st century dissertation by Eva Kubalek, Vienna 2010).
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↑ 170 Years of Schlumberger - A Wine Saga. Falstaff , June 28, 2012.
Private cellar - ^ The Schlumberger Kellerwelten in Vienna.
- ↑ EANS-Adhoc: EANS-Adhoc: Schlumberger Aktiengesellschaft / sale of the sales subsidiary appelt
- ↑ Schlumberger: Another company leaves the city , accessed on August 30, 2017
- ↑ Schlumberger: Excavations to begin soon , accessed January 16, 2019
- ↑ Schlumberger is pouring Hochriegl in the Standard from September 17, 2009, accessed on June 6, 2015.
literature
- Ingrid Haslinger: Customer - Kaiser. The story of the former imperial and royal purveyors . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4 .
- Oswald M. Klotz: “Goldeck” needs golden hands. The science of good sparkling wine . In: The press . Imperial and Royal Court Suppliers today (VII) / 24. January 1977.
- Robert Schlumberger: Wine trade and viticulture in the imperial state of Austria 1804-1918 . Agricultural Publishing House Vienna, 1937.
- Robert Schlumberger: Three times Robert Schlumberger . Self-published, Vienna, 1964.
- Robert Schlumberger, The pioneers of sparkling wine production in Austria . Reprint from the magazine "Das Weinland", No. 11, November 1929.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 13.6 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 25.8 ″ E