Apollinaris Co
of Westminster, London, producers of Apollinaris Mineral Water.
Factories at Elland, Yorkshire, Colindale, Hendon[1] and Edenbridge, Kent.[2]
1852 "Apollinaris" water was sourced from a spring in Bad Neuenahr, Germany, after it was discovered by a vintner called Georg Kreuzberg from Ahrweiler in Germany. [3]
1853 George Kreuzberg began to sell the water from the spring he had discovered.
1874 Eduard Steinkopff, a German who had moved to London, received the rights for sale of Apollinaris in some countries.
1878 Steinkopf took over all the international sales business and the Apollinaris Company Limited was founded in London.
1881 10 millions jugs and bottles of the water were sold every year.
1895 Apollinaris registered the red triangle and claimed "The Queen of Table Waters" as trademark.
1897 Frederick Gordon, an English hotel group, acquired the companies in both England and Germany.
1897 Combined in Appollinaris and Johannis
1900 Apollinaris was already internationally well-known; with a turnover of more than 40 million fillings per annum it is one of the most successful enterprises of the time.
1937 The firm was renting a large warehouse close to the River Thames immediately east of St. Katharine's Dock. They also had a large warehouse on the south bank of the Thames next to Cherry Garden Pier. This warehouse featured a small projecting corrugated iron-clad building containing two gas-fired boilers, providing steam for four small wall cranes.[4]
1946-47 - Presto Factories at Elland and Colindale were released by the authorities.[5]
1956 Apollinaris became a German company again.
1991 Schweppes of Germany and Apollinaris merged.
2002 Cadbury Schweppes buys out whole company. The new company is called Apollinaris and Schweppes GmbH.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Truth - Friday 13 June 1947, Page 610
- ↑ Truth - Wednesday 08 April 1936, Page 597
- ↑ [1] Wikipedia
- ↑ 'London's Lost Riverscape - A Photographic Panorama' by Chris Ellmers and Alex Werner, Guild Publishing. The book contains a series of photographs of the Thames waterfront, taken in 1937 before many of the buildings were destroyed in WW2
- ↑ Truth - Friday 13 June 1947, Page 610
- Trademarked. A History of Well-Known Brands - from Aertex to Wright's Coal Tar by David Newton. Pub: Sutton Publishing 2008 ISBN 978-0-7509-4590-5
- [2] Company website