may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in german . august 2015 click show for important translation instructions . google s machine translation is a useful starting point for translations but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate rather than simply copy pasting machine translated text into the english wikipedia . do not translate text that appears unreliable or low quality . if possible verify the text with references provided in the foreign language article . after translating translated page must be added to the talk page to ensure copyright compliance . for more guidance see wikipedia translation . this article has multiple issues . please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article is an orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . february 2009 this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . january 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message bremer woll k mmerei type public limited company isin de000a0bvxq0 industry textile industry founded 1883 headquarters bremen germany key people g nther beier ceo number of employees 260 year 2006 website bwk bremen bremer woll k mmerei bwk is a worldwide operating company for manufacturing wool and trading in wool and similar products . the company is located in bremen and has branches in australia new zealand and turkey . for some time it has been the world s largest company in this special section of economy . history edit the origin bremer woll k mmerei was founded in 1883 as a joint stock company . investors were the consuls albrecht weinlich and delius the merchants h. claussen j. fritze j. hachez and c. kulenkampff . ferdinand ullrich became business director and paul zsch rner technical director . zsch rner chose an area of 500 000 squaremetres between the river weser and the blumenthaler aue . on 11 september 1884 the production startet with 150 workers . in 1896 already 2000 workers were busy and the number increased to 3700 until 1930 . a new branch near istanbul turkey started production in 2003 . since 20 march 2007 the company was no longer listed on the bremen stock exchange 1 the main shareholder and investor elders took 100 % of the aktiengesellschaft . so an important part of the history of the bremen stock exchange finished after 119 years . the shareholders decided to close the production facilities in bremen during the year 2009 . 2 references edit xetra newsboard 2007 03 20 bwo1 einstellung delisting http www.bwk bremen.de en welcome at bremer woll kaemmerei ag retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bremer woll k mmerei & oldid 737540077 categories companies based in bremencompanies established in 1883textile companies of germanyhidden categories articles to be expanded from august 2015all articles to be expandedarticles needing translation from german wikipediaorphaned articles from february 2009all orphaned articlesarticles lacking reliable references from january 2009all articles lacking reliable references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 3 september 2016 at 14 03 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view