Hillebrand

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The company "J. F. Hillebrand global beverage logistics" with headquarters in Mainz-Hechtsheim (Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany) is the world's largest wine and beverage forwarder. The company was founded in 1844 by Johann Friedrich Hillebrand (1819-1890) as a freight commission business with a loading and unloading service, including a customs agency. In the middle of the 19th century, there was an upswing in the wine trade in Mainz. The young Hillebrand started river transport on the Rhine by buying several barges (type of ship in open construction). This was followed by an expansion to rail and the inclusion of the eastern markets. From 1875 onwards, the two sons Dionis and Ludwig Damian Hillebrand expanded the business and took over the representation for ship passages of the Hamburg-America-Line for the German shipping company "Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-AG".

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