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RANDERS TÆNDSTIKFABRIK
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1864 - 1884
Vestergade 505, Randers

In 1864  Carl Frederik Emil Hoff  bought Søren Larsen Sørensen's grocery shop and match stick factory and moved it to his own merchant yard , which was just down the street in Vestergade 505.  Fairly quickly he called his factory of Randers Tændstikfabrik and started out not only to manufacture the regular matches, but also to manufacture safety matches by the Swedish method of Jönköping .

After production steadily been increasing Hoff built in the summer of 1868 a larger building in his backyard for production. Although the factory established due to the fire regislations it caused a number of fires , but furtunately this didnot have any influence on the production.

In 1872 included Anders Sørensen and Hoff an agreement to increase their prices.

In 1873  his son, Ernst Hoff took over the factory , while the older Hoff concentrated on his grocery trade, but  ​​a year after he made a trip to Sweden include to see the factory in Jönköping. On the journey he bought a complete installation of machinery which he was brought to Randers , but before the machines came to be put into operation ,  Hoff died of rheumatic fever.

His son, Ernst Hoff made ​​the necessary alterations after the new matchstick law was introduced and continued to increase production and at the same time he announced for its brands , Crown Prince Frederik 8th and Niels Ebbesen . Ads by H. E. Gosch took up the fight with the nearly identical ads for the brands , King Frederik 7 and Tordenskjold .

A fire broke out at Randers Match Factory the 22nd of  October 1881 , when the entire factory was laid in ruins. Although Ernst Hoff had built a new and larger factory the fire had apparently shaken him, why he began to be interested in selling the plant .

On the 17th of July 1884  Just Abildgaard, Peter Justesen and officer Michaelsen bought Randers Tændstikfabrik , after which they formed the company "Aktie Tændstikfabriken Merkur"

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1838 - Benjamin Hellmann
1840 - Rohmell´s fabrikker
1841 - Ramsing & Stonor
1842 - Hans Andreas Reuter
1842 - Anne Marie Granberg
1843 - Hans Diderich Schmilau
1843 - Frederik Georg Kølbel
1843 - Carl Axel Hörner
1843 - Carl Peter Rolff
1843 - Christian Peter Beck
1843 - Christophersen og Nielsen
1843 - Johan Carl Müller
1844 - Svovlstikkefabrikken Møllegade
1844 - Arnold Theofilus Müllertz
1844 - Carl Ferdinand Gundorph

1844 - Hassing og Smith
1844 - Carl Frederik Kryger
1844 - Peter Conradsen
1844 - Philip Åkermann
1845 - Niels Thuesen
1846 - Niels Sørensen
1847 - Rasmus Rasmussen
1847 - Søren og Jørgen Brummer
1848 - Frederik Hansen
1850 - Greens fabrikker
1850 - Carl Johan Staal
1850 - Peder Andersen
1853 - Gümoes & Beeken
1853 - Johan Wilhelm Otto
1857 - Carl Abraham Metz
1858 - Anders Sørensen & Co.
1862 - Sørens Larsen Sørensen

1864 - Randers Tændstikfabrik
1864 - Rasmus Langeland Mathiesen
1864 - Hintz & Co
1864 - Ludvig Hintze
1865 - Aalborg Svovlstikkefabrik
1865 - Peter Nielsen
1865 - Hans Jørgensen Svovlstikkefabrik
1865 - Adolph Madsen
1865 - Andreas Bernhard Bryndum
1866 - Carl Meyling
1866 - Lund & Hartmann
1867 - Johan Wilhelm Krause
1868 - Peter Christian Petersen

1868 - Kjær & Gottlieb
1872 - Pallesen & Davidsen
1875 - Kronen og Nørrebros tændstikfabrik
1876 - H.E. Gosch & Co
1884 - Tændstikfabrikken Merkur
1886 - Maare Tændstikfabrik
1890 - Norden og Godthaabsvej

1897 - Københavns Tændstikfabrik
1899 - Internationalt Tændstikkompagni

1901 - Tændstikfabrikken Glødefri
1901 - Købmændenes Tændstikfabrik
1901 - Københavns Tændstikfabrik & Merkur
1904 - Hellerup Tændstikfabrik

1907 - Otto Miram
1908 - KET & Union Allumettière
1916 - Frantz Nehammer
1921 - Hellerup & Glødefri
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