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Proud past, great future
Our track record is based on a rich-in-tradition company and family history going back over 260 years:
| 1744 | Establishment of the firm in Paczków, Silesia. | | 1900 | The first step towards factory-type candle making comes with setting up a factory outside the town. | | 1908 | Brothers Joseph and Franz Müller take over management of the prospering firm. | | 1919 | Even then four shops and two wholesale businesses of the Müller company see to sales. | | 1924 | Soap production is taken up to offset marked seasonal variations in the candle business. | | 1935 | Meanwhile two more shops of the company as well as travelling salesmen and district representatives see to sales. | | 1945 | Dispossession of the firm by the Polish state. | | 1948 | Joseph Müller begins anew in Straelen. | | 1961 | The production building is destroyed in a fire. | | 1962 | A re-start outside the town with Hubert, Ruth and Edith Müller. | | 1985 | The seventh generation of Stefan Müller, Dipl.-Ing., Thomas Müller, Dipl.-Kfm., come onto the board of directors. | | 1988 | A second production plant with a workforce today of 200 is founded in Grudziądz on the River Vistula. | | 1989 | A large new warehouse is added to the production plant in Straelen. Production can be extended. | | 1994 | Production is again expanded in Straelen. Today 110 staff are employed. | | 1997 | Four production shops and warehouses are set up in Grudziądz. | | 1998 | Martin Winnen, Dipl.-Ing., comes onto the board. He is responsible for operating sequences, floristic sales, logistics, DP and controlling. | | 2003 | Change of name to a full public company with Thomas Müller, Stefan Müller and Martin Winnen on the executive board. | | 2005 | Expansion of capacity in Grudziądz thanks to a production order shop. | | 2006 | Filing patent application of the BSS candle with integrated candle tray – a global novelty |
Factory site in Germany, 1937 Factory site in Germany, 1890
today's plant in Straelen, Germany today's plant in Grudziądz, Poland
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