Emil Stock, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Industrialist, businessman
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Place of Birth: Split, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia
About Emil Stock
- Emil Stock (1868–1951) was a Croatian industrialist and businessman. Stock was born in Split on 3 August 1868 to Abramo and Gentile (née Valenzin) Stock, as one of 12 children.
- Stock's paternal Ashkenazi Jewish family originated from Frankfurt am Main, German Empire, while his maternal Sephardi Jewish family arrived in Split during Napoleonic era.
- His father moved to Split in 1844 from Trieste, Italy.
- Stock graduated from university with a civil engineering degree.
- After graduation he built a cement factory near Solin, and also a factory of asbestos-cement products.
- At the beginning of the 1900s Stock became involved in the production of alcoholic beverages.
- In 1905 Stock , along with Vid Morpurgo, another Croatian Jewish industrialist, founded the alcoholic beverages company "Morpurgo, Stock e Comp." Stock 84 was being produced in the Split-based old Morpurgo factory.
- The new company obtained the franchise to construct a new liquor factory on the outskirts of Split (today part of the city).
- The factory concession was subsequently challenged by the municipal prefect Vicko Mihaljevic , ostensibly due to environmental issues, while some attributed the problem to a political conflict between the owners and the municipal authorities.
- Disappointed by the withdrawal of the concession, Stock and Morpurgo went on to build the factory in Rovinj, Croatia.
- The business was prosperous so Stock and his partner decided to build a second plant in Trieste, where Stock's brother Lionel already owned the steam wine distillery "Distilleria a vapore Camis & Stock" (now Fernet Stock) which produced cognac "Medicinal".
- Stock died in Trieste in 1951.
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