Haribo
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Haribo GmbH & Co. KG, doing business as Haribo ( , ; stylized in all caps), is a German confectionery company founded by Hans Riegel Sr. It began in Kessenich, Bonn, Germany. The name "Haribo" is a syllabic abbreviation formed from Hans Riegel Bonn. The company created the first gummy candy in 1922 in the form of little gummy bears called Gummibärchen. The current headquarters are in Grafschaft, Germany.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Haribo
- Company.logo
- Haribo Logo 2024.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 150px
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.founder
- Hans Riegel Sr.
- Company.industry
- Confectionery
- Company.products
- Candy, especially gummy candy
- Company.revenue
- €1.7–2.0 billion
- Company.num_employees
- ~7,000 (2018)
- Company.location_city
- Grafschaft, Rhineland
- Company.location_country
- Germany
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Present
- Relocation of the company headquarters
- Goldbears
- US presence
- International distribution
- Slogans
- References
- External links
Haribo GmbH & Co. KG, doing business as Haribo ( , ; stylized in all caps), is a German confectionery company founded by Hans Riegel Sr. It began in Kessenich, Bonn, Germany. The name "Haribo" is a syllabic abbreviation formed from Hans Riegel Bonn. The company created the first gummy candy in 1922 in the form of little gummy bears called Gummibärchen. The current headquarters are in Grafschaft, Germany.
==History== thumb|The Haribo Solingen factory in 2021 On 13 December 1920, the company was registered in the commercial register by its founder Johannes Riegel. In 1921, his wife Gertrud Riegel was the company's first employee. According to the company, Riegel's seed capital was a sack of sugar, a copper pot, a marble slab, a stool, a stonewalled stove and a roller. In the same year, he bought a house that was located in the Kessenich district of Bonn, on a street called Bergstraße. The house was Haribo's first production facility.
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