Repro cases
Babinya Ltd Woodprocessing Company
Driving along Riga - Moscow motorway, 5 km out of Rezekne one should take turn to the left. Gravel road of good quality leads to the centre of one of Rezekne district's parishes - Stolerova. Probably name of the site comes from Russian "stolyari" which means - "carpenter, woodworker". Small village seems neat and tidy. Although registered unemployment rate in Rezekne district comprises 27,3% of economically active population (data on 31 Decemnber 2003; in Latvia average rate 8,6% in 2003), Stolerova's corresponding data is more optimistic in comparison with the district - 13,7%. The parish has 789 inhabitants. Many of economically active population commute for work to Rezekne city. The local company "BAIBINA" Ltd ensures work for 30 village men. After 2 km out of the village large piles of logs catch sight. 2 large storages, couple of trucks with loads of timber, and smiling young man coming across - visitor has arrived to the wood processing company "BAIBINA". |
Carluccio's Caffes
Antonio feels fortunate that he was born in the land of sun. In 1937, his father was a station-master in the village of Vietri Sul Mare on the magnificent Amalfi coast. When he was three months old, the Carluccio family moved up to the North, in another beautiful area, the Monferrato. Growing up in a family of six children meant that everybody helped out at some time in the kitchen. His main chore was to pick fresh mushrooms and rocket for his mother's cooking and he was taught with his brothers and sisters to recognise and gather foods from nature. "I feel particularly lucky to have had a multi-regional upbringing because it taught me, through the culinary genius of my mother, the basics of what was to become my professional passion, Italian food" he says. |
EJ-Laukku Oy / Three Bags
The firm EJ-Laukku has been manufacturing Finnish leather bags over 50 years. In 1953, Erkki J. Juutilainen, the founder of EJ-Laukku Oy, registered his firm and started leather bag manufacturing and retail with his wife Mirjami Juutilainen. In 1963, the firm and its personnel (7 persons) moved from Rantasalmi to Varkaus. An export firm, Three Bags Oy, was started in 1967 in cooperation with two other Finnish bag factories. As early as in 1969, EJ-Laukku got hold of the brand Three Bags exclusively. The first export countries were Sweden, Norway and Switzerland. In 1970's, export expanded to Holland, England, Ireland, Austria and Iceland. |
FAIRKAUF
In 1997, the Mannheim Caritas Association, a non-profit organization, founded FAIRKAUF, a second-hand department store. The business model of this department store boils down to acquiring second-hand goods for free, usually from household dissolutions, in order to sell these items in several stores across the inner city area. |
GundaZ - Gardening Farm
Farm "GUNDA-Z" was established in June 2002. Total area of farmland is 1,2 hectares. Basic activity - decorative gardening. The farm is located in Rogovka village of Nautreni parish (Rezekne district). Landowner is Daina Zvejsalniece. Team includes only family members which is also indicated in the name of the farm - it is formed of first letters of names Gunars (Daina's husband) and Daina. |
Jury's Hotels
The "Commercial Lodgings" at No. 7 College Green, Dublin in 1839 was only the beginning of a long and successful tradition in the hospitality industry for Jurys Doyle Hotel Group plc. William Jury, himself a former commercial traveller, started this enterprise based on his experience as a guest (the equivalent to customer in the hospitality industry) of many inns and lodgings. Within the next decade, "The Commercial and Family Hotel" occupied Nos. 6, 7 and 8 College Green as well as Nos. 1 and 2 Anglesea Street. For the next 150 years the concept would not change, regardless of the enterprise's growth: accommodation appropriate for business people and families as well, with the same personal care that a small hotel owner would offer its guests. |
Mario Cavelli
In 1933 the entrepreneurial effort of Mario Cavelli led to the birth of a new enterprise, which still today bears the name of its founder. Thanks to the support of his brother in law, Antonio Genellina, Mario set up a new business in the town of Busto Arsizio. The area, where both the partners were born, was famous for its dynamic and brisk industrial environment, mainly rooted in the production of textile and fabrics. Since its foundation, the company started producing unbleached fabrics for mattresses on behalf of a third party; this fact was also due to the competences acquired by Mario's working partner, Antonio, who used to work as a technical assistant in a cloth mill in the same town. |
Occupational Integration for People with Disabilities
In 1991, Mannheim's welfare organization "Caritasverbund Mannheim e.V." founded IFA, the Integration Company for the Promotion of Jobs, whose main focus is to provide employment opportunities for socially deprived people in order to reintegrate them into the main workforce. While listed as an independent business enterprise, IFA, at least legally, remains a dependent subdivision of "Caritasverbund Mannheim e.V." |
ODDK - The Consulting and Personnel Development Centre
In 1987 three cooperatives (ODiTK - Ośrodek Doradztwa i Treningu Kadr is one of them, which is still operating) set up various small partnerships. ODDK was one of the established companies. It is worth mentioning that a lot of such partnerships were created at this time, mainly because of legislative changes that simplified the whole procedure. |
Polinelli
Polinelli holding was founded by Riccardo Polinelli in 1977, after a long working experience as the head of the sales department in an important eyewear producing company. Riccardo Polinelli built up the project to set up his own business when he discovered the company he worked for was not sharing his ideas and taking the wrong decisions in running the business: he foresaw the risk the company he worked for was running, that’s to say being dropped out from the eyewear business market. |
Rönnvik's Winery
Wine making started commercially in Finland in 1995, when our legislation enabled this kind of operation. The first wineries were set up right after the permission had been granted, and the number of wineries has grown annually ever since. In 2005, there are 37 active wineries operating in Finland. In addition to wine making, most wineries provide restaurant and wine shop services as well. |
Swissmed - Centrum Zdrowia
The history of Swissmed Health Centre's activities goes back to the 1996. On 12 December 1996 Mr. Bruno Hangartner, acting on behalf and for the benefit of THEO FREY AC the Swiss company with its head office in Bern, set up a limited liability company under the name of "THEO FREY POLSKA". The head office was registered in Gdansk. The first President of the Directory Board was the founder and single authorized representative Bruno Hangartner. |
VPG Finland Oy
In the beginning of the seventies two cousins, Taisto and Tapio Kuusela, from Lapland moved to Kuopio, “following a lady”, as they say themselves. They had made their living in the reindeer farm in Lapland but had now interest to start business in the Southern parts of Finland. Taisto married her and started his business in her father’s garage in the town center; “leather products for hunting, for horses, for dogs”. Taisto was an enthusiastic and excellent sales representative and his cousin Tapio was in charge of the production. They had ideas and resources and wanted to get in touch with larger markets. In Kuopio they built a house by the lake for themselves and continued their business by producing various leather products in their new company called Puijon Nahkatuote Ky in the year 1973. |
