Otmuchów Group facts for kids
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| Joint-stock company | |
| Industry | Food |
| Founded | 2010 |
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Otmuchów, Poland
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Area served
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Poland |
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Key people
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Mert Özden |
| Products | Confectionery |
| zl 278,000 (2016) | |
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Number of employees
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1420 |
The Otmuchów Group is a big company in Poland that makes lots of yummy sweets! They are known for making many different candies, chocolates, and snacks. Their main office is in a town called Otmuchów, Poland. You can even find their company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. This means parts of their business can be bought and sold there.
This group makes, packs, and sells many treats. These include chocolate, chocolate biscuits, fancy candy boxes (called bombonieres), small pastille candies, and other sweets. They also make breakfast foods like oatmeal and corn flakes. The Otmuchów Group often makes food for big stores under the stores' own brand names. This is called "private label" production. They also sell products under their own brand names.
In 2016, the Otmuchów Group had many people working for them, about 1420 in total!
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How the Otmuchów Group is Organized
The Otmuchów Group is a joint-stock company. This means it is owned by many shareholders.
The Otmuchów Group has factories in these Polish cities:
Companies in the Group
The Otmuchów Group owns several other companies. Each one helps make different kinds of treats.
ZPC Otmuchów S.A.
This company makes confectionery products. It was started in 1952. About 550 people work here. ZPC Otmuchów specializes in making cakes, lollipops, and gingerbread. They make gingerbread in many shapes, sometimes with a shiny glaze or chocolate. In 2008, ZPC Otmuchów bought another company called Victoria Sweet S.A.
PWC Odra S.A.
PWC Odra S.A. is another company in the group. It was founded in 1946 and is based in Brzeg. This company is one of the biggest food industry companies in Poland. It makes many different confectionery products. They make sure their products are good quality by following special rules like the International Food Standard.
When PWC Odra started, they made caramel and sweet candy. Later, they began making milk fudge candy, including a famous one called Matylda krówki. They also started making sesame chałwa (a sweet candy). In the late 1950s, they added chocolates and pastilles to their products. From 1970 to 1972, PWC Odra was the first company in Poland to make chewing gum in different shapes! They also added new chocolate candy in the mid-1970s.
CSI Jedność
CSI Jedność is a confectionery company that started in 1949. It is located in Grójec. This company focuses on making milk and fudge candy, caramel, and pastille sweets. They also make some diet supplements. CSI Jedność produces krówki, caramel, Irysy candy, toffee, and a sweet milk product called kaymak.
Aero Snack
Aero Snack is a company that makes Tip Top potato crips. They offer these chips in many different flavors.
Brands and Products You Might Know
The Otmuchów Group makes many products under different brand names. Here are some of them:
- Bingo – This brand offers roasted and salted nuts, breadsticks, and crisps.
- Crunchers – These are crisp crackers.
- Free Food – This brand makes jelly beans, dried fruit and oatmeal snack bars, and protein cocoa snack bars.
- Mr. Froots – You can find jelly beans and fruit snack bars under this brand.
- Multigrain Quinoa Snacks – These are also crisp crackers.
- Odra – This is a big brand with many products like caramel candy, chocolates, jelly, bombonieres, milk fudge (like krówki), jelly beans, pralines, Ptasie Mleczko (a type of chocolate-covered marshmallow), chałwa in different flavors, and sesame crackers.
- Otmuchów – This brand is known for its cornflakes.
