Kraš

Kraš prehrambena industrija d.d.
Public
Traded as ZSE: KRAS
Industry Confectionery production
Founded 1911 (as Union)
1950 (incorporated as Kraš)
Headquarters Zagreb, Croatia
Key people
 Damir Bulić (Chairman)[1]
Products Confectionery
Number of employees
 2457 (Kraš Group, 31 Dec 2013)[2]
Website www.kras.hr

Kraš (Croatian pronunciation: [krâʃ]) is a Croatian food company based in Zagreb, specializing in confectionery products. In 2012, Kraš was, after Podravka, the second largest Croatian exporter of food.[3]

History

The company traces its origins from two factories from the early 20th century - "Union", founded in 1911, the oldest surviving chocolate manufacturer in southeastern Europe - and "Bizjak", founded in 1923, which manufactured toast, cookies and wafers. These two companies, as well as a number of smaller confectionery manufacturers from Zagreb, merged in 1950 and took the name Kraš, in honour of Josip Kraš, a union leader and prominent Croatian communist who was killed in World War II.

The company was in social ownership during SFR Yugoslavia, and privatized in 1992 into a private shareholding company with capital estimated at 135,769,000 DM. In the aftermath of Yugoslav breakup, Kraš lost two thirds of its market.[4]

In 1997 Kraš received the ISO 9001 certificate.

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See also

References

  1. ↑ "Management Board". kras.hr. Kraš. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "PRIVREMENI REZULTATI POSLOVANJA KRAŠ, D.D. I KRAŠ GRUPE ZA POSLOVNU 2013. GODINU" (PDF) (Press release) (in Croatian). Kraš. 14 February 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Podravka, Kraš i Viro najveći izvoznici hrane". tportal.hr (in Croatian). HINA. 11 February 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  4. ↑ "Bitka do zadnjeg bombona". Globus (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2013.

Sources

  • "Godišnji financijski izvještaj za poslovnu 2012. godinu" [Annual report for the fiscal year 2012] (PDF) (in Croatian). Kraš. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
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