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Pins and buttons
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Petit Parein
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In Antwerp, grain trader Eduard Parein established himself just after the American civil war specialized in the import of flour from the USA. The Belgian flour lacked quality due to the fact that here the flour was still ground in dilapidated windmills. Forefather Parein soon becomes the largest local flower trader. he was so known that the invoices from the United States spontaneously received their correct destination. The pedigree book of our cousin Eduard Brackeniers teaches us: “in the family it works story circulated that Eduard Parein made a fortune due to a writing error on him attributed or a reading error by the Americans. He had one boat of flower ordered but got ten. This is how he discovered that the price of the flower during the crossing had tripled as a result of political development. That has to be in the early 1880s, as he bought new and beautiful properties in Antwerp and Ekeren around that time.” It is also Eduard Parein who acquired the Cordemans biscuit factory in 1890. He takes over this company in financial difficulties with the intention of helping his sons Louis and Pierre find a job and opening a new market for his flower. For this he teams up with Jules Plissaert. The factory was located in the Antwerp van der Keilenstraat (Borgerhout). The logo became a small, alert, Breton postman taken over from the former Cordemans biscuit factory. Over the years this logo would be modernized and for a long time the packaging and trucks from Parein (until 1958). Cordemansfabriek soon burst at the seams, so a site was purchased of 2200 m2. The site is on the site of the 1894 World's Fair, in the south of the city of Antwerp, i.e. 'outer walls' where future expansions would not pose any difficulties. The Cordemans brand disappears and is replaced in 1895 by the Parein brand. In 1965 a merger took place between Biscuit Parein and Biscuit De Beukelaer, General Biscuits.

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