After more than 100 years
Third bankruptcy: praline manufacturer Leysieffer is wound up
Updated on November 11, 2024 – 8:44 a.m. Reading time: 1 min.
Leysieffer store in Berlin: The company cannot be saved. (Source: rolf kremming via www.imago-images.de/imago)
Leysieffer has been around since 1909. After the third bankruptcy it is now clear: the company has no future.
Shock for the employees of Leysieffer Genusskultur GmbH: The company can no longer be saved and is being liquidated. The 150 employees who had been waiting for their salaries since August have all been laid off.
No suitable investor was found, reports NDR. The workforce was informed on Monday. The bankruptcy, which was filed at the beginning of October, was the third for the Osnabrück praline manufacturer Leysieffer.
In spring 2020, Leysieffer completed insolvency proceedings on his own responsibility – in the course of which the company was sold. But in 2022, the praline company slipped into insolvency again – not least because of the consequences of the Corona crisis and increased raw material and energy costs.
At that time, the family that owns the Zeitfracht logistics group joined the company. But economic success apparently failed to materialize. It was only in July of this year that Holstein Schoko UG took over the company retroactively to January 1, 2024, reports “Wirtschaftswoche”.
Leysieffer produced high-quality confectionery products such as chocolates, pralines and fruit spreads and operates cafés, bistros and shops at twelve locations in Germany. Leysieffer was founded as a confectionery shop in 1909 and the company produced its first chocolates in 1936.
