Talk:Bahlsen

Merge
Choco Leibniz should be merged into Bahlsen. The article is a whopping 2 sentences saying how the biscuits look and what they are made of even after a request for expansion. pschemp | talk 18:26, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I disagree. A need to expand this article is not a reason to sacrifice another. --badlydrawnjeff talk 18:27, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Its not a need to expand, its that it can't be expanded past a stub. Prove me wrong please. pschemp | talk 18:51, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't know enough about German food to prove you wrong. Maybe get some German editors involved? --badlydrawnjeff talk 19:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * The German editor who commented on the AFD User:Samsara suggested a merge. (Actually he said delete, after he merged the information that existed at the time) pschemp | talk 19:57, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thus the plural. --badlydrawnjeff talk 20:06, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, go find some German editors that agree with you then. I'll wait. Disagreeing about a topic you admit to knowing little about doesn't give your opinion much credibility I'm afraid. pschemp | talk 20:19, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Bahlsen owns the Leibniz brand and it is the most famous brand. Nevertheless, Leibniz cookies are not sold under Bahlsen and there is no Bahlsen logo anywhere on the package. Due to the reputation of Leibniz and the existence of other Bahlsen brands, I would definitely not combine the articles. SP B24 (talk) 10:30, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Both Bahlsen as a largish company and the Leibniz biscuit are notable in their own right. Leibniz 13:12, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Company split: Bahlsen (sweet) and Lorenz (salty)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_Snack-World

Please put a note into the Bahlsen article that the company was split between the two brothers who inherited it in 1999, one got the Bahlsen brand name and the sweet cookie department, the other got the salty products (potato chips and peanuts, other salty nuts, puffed corn with peanut butter "worms", salty crackers, ..) and named it after his first name, "Lorenz".

The split was because the heirs didn't agree with each other, so they still don't cross-link to each other's article; I think the new name for the salty department should also be mentioned in the "Bahlsen" article because people who knew the salty products by the old brand name from before about 2000 may be confused where their favorite snacks disappeared to -- Bahlsen had since 1964 in several steps bought Germany's first potato chips factory, Flessner, who had started in 1951 supplying US soldiers in Western Germany with potato chips, before starting as late as 1959 to also sell them to the German population (since being bought, under the Bahlsen brand name); others may know them from a visit to Germany and now try to order them online, but don't find a hint about the new name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8108:81C0:34DC:4551:8417:680C:BC04 (talk) 16:19, 28 February 2017 (UTC)