Zentis

Zentis company car at the Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum (Sinsheim)

Zentis is a German jam and confectionery manufacturer. It supplies finished products to customers and also to companies, especially dairy product industries, for which it is the market leader in Europe.[1]

History

The company was established by Franz Zentis on 20 June 1893 in Aachen as a trading company.[2] Real breakthrough came in 1900, with the production of FAMOS a jam made from dried apricots and sugar. There are no Zentis producers in the United States, except for one in northern Indiana. It is found in the town of Plymouth, Indiana.

Pope Benedict XVI is among the company's patrons; every December near Christmas, a German banker from Bavaria, a Munich native named Thaddaeus Joseph Kuehnel, hand-delivers sweets from the company to the Vatican, along with Bavarian sausages from the Pope's favorite restaurant, Franziskaner, and special mustard.

References

  1. ↑ "Zentis Executives Visit Company's First North American Plant". 2007-09-06. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
  2. ↑ "History of Zentis". Retrieved 2008-09-14.

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