Hachez (French pronunciation: [aʃe]) was a chocolate manufacturing company based in Bremen in northern Germany.
Renovations were made financially possible by selling 50% of the company to Zertus (still known as Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde at the time) in 1953, which had settled in Hamburg after the war and then started producing chocolate together with Hachez in Bremen.
In 1987, Hasso Nauck (1951–2017), grandson of Otto Friedrich Hasse, sold the remaining family share of 50% to Zertus, which subsequently took over Hachez.
[7][8] In 1990, Nauck, who since 1987 was Head of Marketing for Milka at Jacobs Suchard AG (today Mondelēz International), joined the Hachez company as managing director together with one of his colleagues, Wolf Kropp-Büttner.
[9] The headquarters of Jacobs Suchard AG in Bremen was only a few meters away from the Hachez factory building in the Neustadt district.
[3][10] In 2012, Nauck and Kropp-Büttner sold their shares to the Danish Toms Group, but initially remained employed as managing directors with contracts until the end of 2014.
[19] In September 2019, the city of Bremen secured a Pre-sale right for the company premises in the Bremer Neustadt district and plans emerged for the continued use of the area.