Doubt (company)
The company Zweifel is a Swiss food manufacturer and trading company. It consists of two sub-companies: Zweifel Weine and Zweifel Pomy-Chips , united under the umbrella of a holding company based in Zurich .
history
The wine division Zweifel & Co. AG , based in Zurich, is the older part of the group of companies. The Doubt family has been living in Zurich Höngg since the Middle Ages . Due to the increasing number of vine diseases, the company founded in 1898 by Emil and Paul Zweifel under the name of "Gebrüder Zweifel, Eigenbau und Handel mit Wein und Obstsaft", soon shifted its focus to fruit juice production. The viticulture was soon stopped, only the trade remained. In 1946/47 the newly built juice must factory was the most modern in Europe and one of the leading in Switzerland. Increasingly greater competition from the new American beverage products (Coca-Cola etc.) that have come into fashion, however, led to a decline in earnings, which was followed by another reorientation. In the 1950s, the company began trading mineral water and began producing potato chips (see below). At the end of the 1960s, vines were grown again in Lattenberg near Stäfa and in Regensberg and a separate winery was put into operation. Since then, the Zurich city wine has come exclusively from the Zweifel family. Doubt later took over, among other things, the exclusive agency for wines from the Prince of Liechtenstein's Hofkellerei . In 1983 the cider factory in Höngg was finally closed. Today, in addition to in-house production, wines imported from all over the world (mostly directly from the producer), as well as spirits, sparkling wine and champagne are traded in own shops in Zurich, Kloten , Aarau and St. Gallen as well as through sales partners. The company also has its own restaurant.
Doubt pomy chips
The Zweifel Pomy-Chips AG is mainly snack and potato chip products here. With a 55 percent market share, Zweifel is the market leader for chips and snacks in Switzerland
history
In 1950, Hans Meier, a cousin of Heinrich Zweifel, founded a hand-made potato chip manufacturer. Seven years later, the company Zweifel & Co. took over the small business. In 1960 production in Höngg was expanded, and in 1970 the plant in Spreitenbach was opened. In 1992 the company changed its legal form to a stock corporation . It is still owned by the family today. At the end of 2008, Hansheinrich Zweifel, who had built up the company since 1958, gave up his position as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Structure and key figures
The public limited company also has its administrative headquarters in Zurich, with its main manufacturing site in Spreitenbach in the canton of Aargau . Doubt Pomy-Chips currently employs 383 people.
The division's total sales in 2019 were CHF 241 million . A total of 6,479 tons of potato chips and 1,862 tons of snacks were sold in 2012. Part of the production is exported to Germany and Italy.
Doubt Pomy-Chips also acts as a franchisor for the distribution of The Box , a counter display with products from Zweifel and other snack manufacturers.
literature
- Christoph Hämmig (Ed.): Chip stories from Hansheinrich Zweifel. Anecdotes and stories from the life of the co-founder and pioneer of Zweifel Pomy-Chips AG. Werd Verlag, Zurich 2008
- Heinrich Doubt: 50 years of the Zweifel cider factory in Zurich-Höngg, 1898-1948: The development of a family company . Zurich-Höngg, 1948
- Höngg and the Zweifel family . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , No. 342, of July 26, 1973
- Reinhold Frei (compilation), Georg Sibler (revision): The Doubt family from Höngg (communication ... of the local history commission of the Höngg Beautification Association; No. 29), Höngg 1983
- Georg Sibler: The "Stammhaus" Zweifel in Höngg: architectural archaeological and historical studies, using studies of the city archeology of Zurich (communication ... of the local history commission of the Höngg Beautification Association; No. 46), Höngg, 2003
Web links
- Web presence of Zweifel Pomy-Chips AG
- Web presence of Zweifel & Co. AG (wines)
- Web presence of the Zweifelbox (the box for snackers only)