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 all sorts of delicious sweets and snacks. They specialize in making confectioneries, which is a fancy word for candies, chocolates, and other sweet treats. Their main office is in Otmuchów, Poland.
This company makes, packages, and distributes many different products. These include chocolates, chocolate biscuits, fancy boxed candies (called bombonieres), pastilles, and other sweets. They also make breakfast foods like oatmeal and corn flakes. The Otmuchów Group makes food for big stores and other businesses, and they also sell products under their own brand names.
As of 2016, the Otmuchów Group had a total of 1420 employees. This includes people working at their main company and other companies they own.
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How the Otmuchów Group Works
The Otmuchów Group is a joint-stock company. This means it's owned by many people who buy small parts of the company called "shares." These shares can be bought and sold on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, which is like a big marketplace for company shares.
The Otmuchów Group has production factories in three different cities in Poland:
Companies Owned by Otmuchów Group
The Otmuchów Group owns several other companies that help them make all their products.
ZPC Otmuchów S.A.
ZPC Otmuchów S.A. is a company that makes confectionery products. It was started in 1952 and employs about 550 people. This company is known for making cakes, lollipops, sugar candies, and gingerbread cookies. They make gingerbread in many shapes, sometimes with a shiny glaze or covered in chocolate.
For a while, ZPC Otmuchów was part of a bigger group of companies. But in 1993, it became a private company again. Since 1997, it has been a joint-stock company based in Otmuchów. In 2008, ZPC Otmuchów bought another company called Victoria Sweet S.A.
PWC Odra S.A.
PWC Odra S.A. is another company owned by the Otmuchów Group. It was founded in 1946 and has its main office in Brzeg. This company is one of the biggest confectionery makers in Poland. It makes about 5% of all the sweets sold in the country. PWC Odra makes sure its products are high quality by following international food safety rules.
When PWC Odra first started in 1946, they made caramel and other sweet candies. Over the years, they grew and added new products. Between 1948 and 1951, they started making milk fudge candies, including a famous brand called Matylda krówki, and sesame halva. Later, from 1957 to 1958, they began making chocolates and pastilles.
From 1970 to 1972, PWC Odra was the first company in Poland to start making chewing gum in different shapes. They also added new chocolate candies between 1975 and 1976. In 1993, PWC Odra became a private company. In 1996, they introduced Fructo pastilles and Mini caramel sweets. In 1998, the company became a joint-stock company.
CSI Jedność
CSI Jedność is a confectionery company that started in 1949. It is located in Grójec. This company specializes in making milk and fudge candies, caramel, pastille sweets, and even some diet supplements. They also follow strict quality control rules. CSI Jedność makes krówki, caramel, Irysy candy, toffee, and milk kaymak sweets.
Aero Snack
Aero Snack is a private company that makes Tip Top potato crisps. These crisps come in many different flavors.
Popular Brands and Products
The Otmuchów Group makes many different products under various brand names. Here are some of their popular ones:
- Bingo – This brand offers roasted and salted nuts, breadsticks, and crisps.
- Crunchers – These are crisp crackers.
- Free Food – This brand includes jelly beans, dried fruit, oatmeal snack bars, and protein cocoa snack bars.
- Mr. Froots – This brand makes jelly beans and fruit snack bars.
- Multigrain Quinoa Snacks – These are crisp crackers made with different grains.
- Odra – This is a well-known brand for caramel candy, chocolates, jelly, bombonieres, milk fudge (like krówki), jelly beans, pralines, Ptasie Mleczko (a type of chocolate-covered marshmallow), halva in different flavors, and sesame crackers.
- Otmuchów – This brand is known for its cornflakes.
