User:Eli185/Bunzl & Biach GmbH

Bunzl & Biach GmbH is a company in the waste paper sector based in Vienna-Floridsdorf, which is owned by Heinzel Holding GmbH and Essity Austria GmbH together with its subsidiaries in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Further sites are also located in Vienna-Matzleinsdorf and Linz.

History
Bunzl & Biach goes back to the founding of the company Emanuel Biach's Eidam, which was founded in 1854 by Moritz Bunzl (1820-1875) in Bratislava. The company operated the "rag trade", i.e. it collected textile waste and processed it for recycling by the textile and paper industry.

From 1883, with its headquarters in Vienna, the company organized a network extending across Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe for the purpose of "rag trade", but also acquired factories for further processing. In addition to the company headquarters in Vienna, the location of the paper mill founded in 1917 in Ortmann near Pernitz in Lower Austria was also of great importance to the group. After the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918, the company founded its own subsidiaries in the successor states and acquired numerous other holdings.

In order to unite this network of companies under one roof, the existing firms and companies were converted into corporations in 1936. The Austrian companies and the companies with a connection to Austria were incorporated into the newly founded Bunzl & Biach AG in Vienna. In addition, Bunzl-Holding AG was founded in Zug, Switzerland. In addition to Bunzl & Biach AG in Vienna, Bunzl Holding owned numerous companies and holdings in the successor states of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and in the German Reich.

Nazi Era Aryanization

The owners of Bunzl-Holding AG were six brothers who, together with their families, were persecuted and expelled as Jews after the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in 1938, and some were even murdered. The Bunzl & Biach AG group was "Aryanized" by the Austrian Control Bank for Industry and Trade in 1938 and renamed Kontropa Kontinentale Rohstoff und Papierindustrie Aktiengesellschaft in September 1941. In 1946, the family regained all Austrian companies and 100 years after the company was founded, companies in England, America, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and South Africa with almost 4000 employees formed the Bunzl Group.

In the course of several restructurings and changes of ownership, an independent company, Bunzl & Biach GmbH, was founded in 1990, which was 50% owned by SCA Laakirchen AG and 50% by SCA Hygiene Products GmbH in Ortmann. In 2013, Heinzel Holding acquired 100% of the shares in Papierfabrik Laakirchen Papier AG from the SCA Group. Through the purchase by Laakirchen Papier AG of one percent of the share capital held in its second parent company Essity Austria GmbH, the Heinzel Group indirectly acquired a 51% majority stake in Bunzl & Biach GmbH.

Weblinks

 * Website von Bunzl & Biach