1901 - 1921
Dansk Tændstikfabrik og Tændstikfabrikken Glødefri
Heimdalsgade 39, Copenhagen
In
May 1901 Copenhagen Magistrate registered Edvard Hans Jørgensen
to be the owner of Dansk Tændstikfabrik.
When he left Københavns Tændstikfabrik he immediately started to
get some architects to draw a brand new match factory on the
site in Heimdalsgade 39.
When he got the approval for the construction , he changed
however the company name to " Tændstikfabrikken Glødefri " .
Jørgensen shared
the ownership with Carl Henrik Mortensen and Janus Hansineus
Schibbye ( brother of Edvard Jørgensen President colleague in
Københavns Tændstikfabrik ) .
In April 1902 the factory was finished and Jørgensen could again
initiate an aggressive marketing , this time of the sparkfree
matches.
Matches won in the same year gold medal at the exhibition in
Paris .
During the next six months , their production raised to 40 to
50,000 boxes a day, or one-sixth of Gosch 's production.
This worried Gosch 's president , Folmer Preisler , who asked
Private Bank President Axel Heide to begin negotiations with
Glødefri on production quotas.
But there was apparently no agreements in order and production
and profits continued to rise .
In 1906 Gosch & Co sued Glødefri for imitation of their labels
and Glødefri lost for the most part and should destroy the
labels, and pay "the damages" of 500 kroner.
That same year Glødefri gave a small deficit , probably because
the costs of the proceedings .
The following year , when rumors that merchants would start
their own factory was at its peak , Schibbye told the newspapers
that Glødefri considered to establish a branch near Aarhus.
But the
branch never materialized .
The same year, the women workers got on strike in
dissatisfaction over wages and when the strike , which lasted
five months and costing Glødefri a lot of money. After this
Glødefri went to the negotiations with the newly established
Hellerup Tændstikfabrik and Gosch & Co. on price and production
agreements.
The three companies agreed to establish "Salgskontoret for
tændstikfabrikker i Danmark" to perform product purchase and
sale of their products.
The board sat two members from Gosch and 1 member from each of
Hellerup and Glødefri .
Production was
distributed with max.
80,000 boxes per day at Glødefri , 56,000 at Hellerup and
280,000 boxes a day at Gosch .
At this time Glødefris production therefore may almost be 1/3 of
Gosch 's.
But
the deficit did not disappear , among others
because they also had tried out one of the new complete
machines, but had to give this up as there turned out great
problems .
As A. W.
Schibbye in 1908 had completed his "quarantine " he replaced
Carl Henrik Mortensen on the board and when Edvard Hans
Jorgensen died in 1910 the former president of the
Købmændenes Tændstikfabrik , Valdemar Carl Fock joined as
president . He
occurred also on the board since A. W.
Schibbye died in
the fall of 1913.
On the 6th of
July 1921 a general meeting at Hellerup Tændstikfabrik adopted
to transfer the company's assets to Glødefri and close down the
factory and instead included in " Aktietændstikfabrikken
Glødefri and Hellerup Tændstikfabrik " , which, however, soon
after changed to " Hellerup and Glødefri Tændstikfabrik" .
Although it is Hellerup that closes , Valdemar Fock and Janus
Schibbye left the board and handed over the seats to the former
Management in Hellerup Tændstikfabrik .
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