European history and politicsConsumer behavior in food and healthFamily Business Performance and Succession

Stefanie van de Kerkhof

2026.2.5BUSINESS HISTORY

DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2025.2554513

Abstract

‘We confectioners are noblemen, what we scrape off our fingers, princes and kings must feast on’. This proverb illustrates the market problems that the Bahlsen company- famous for its Leibniz biscu...

Citation format

KERKHOF, Stefanie van de. Die geschichte des hauses bahlsen. keks – krieg – konsum 1911–1974 [the history of the bahlsen family business – a story of biscuits, war and consumption]. BUSINESS HISTORY, 2026: 1–4.