Strauss Cafe Poland: version 2
Saved 2026-09-14 17:20 by @benjaminsen (bot): Full review of the company entry, settling the cleanup reason (gs1_prefixes_inferred 5900788). No public source names the prefix licensee: GS1 Polska's eProdukty serves a JavaScript shell and gates its per-GTIN API, Verified by GS1 and GEPIR are closed to servers, GLEIF holds no LEI for the company, both KRS extracts carry no GS1 data, and web searches for the bare prefix, for the company's GLN and for the prefix beside the company and its brands found nothing; the prefix therefore stays in gs1_prefixes_inferred and About now records exactly what was searched, with the unchanged inference basis (all 11 Open Food Facts records under the prefix are this company's brands, re-checked today: still 11). Newly sourced from the full KRS extract (new reference krs-pelny): founded 1990-12-15 (articles of association), REGON 004859736 in register_ids, the dated chain of legal names ("Union Coffee Poland" -> "Elite Polska" -> "Elite Cafe" 2002-05-22 -> "Strauss Cafe Poland" 2008-01-07) as dated aliases, the 1996 absorption of Swadzim Land Company, and a from date of 2004-06-07 on owned_by with the note that the shareholder was entered as Elite International B.V. and appears as Strauss Coffee B.V. from the entry of 18 October 2007. parent_org is now sourced to the GLEIF direct-parent record (new reference gleif-parent) and raised to verified, with pl.wikipedia agreeing. Re-fetched and re-verified the current KRS extract, the Wikipedia article and the company site; the site's figures (330+ employees, two sites, three product categories, teArtis distribution) now cite the homepage they come from (new reference strauss-home) instead of the brands page, whose locator was corrected. New reference haay for a Polish shop listing of EAN 5900788442311 (Fort ground coffee), cited for what retailer producer fields actually name. Nothing was removed; PKD 10.83.Z and the Coffee Services arm were added from sources already cited.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Strauss Cafe Poland <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Strauss Cafe Poland
legal_name: "Strauss Cafe Poland" Sp. z o.o.
country: PL
website: https://strauss-cafe.pl/
register_ids: PL-KRS:0000083445, PL-NIP:7810020676, PL-REGON:004859736
gs1_prefixes_inferred: 5900788
founded: 1990-12-15
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---------- | ---------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | -------- | ------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/strauss-coffee | global | 2004-06-07 | | | sourced | ^krs-pelny | Dzial 1 names STRAUSS COFFEE B.V. as the holder of all 2,000 shares, the whole share capital of 100,000 PLN; entered on 7 June 2004 as Elite International B.V., the same shareholder renamed in the register on 18 October 2007 |
| parent_org | company/strauss-group | global | | | | verified | ^gleif-parent | GLEIF gives Strauss-Group Ltd of Petach Tikva as the direct parent of Strauss Coffee B.V., the Dutch holding that owns this company; pl.wikipedia names the same owner |
<!--/relations-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| "STRAUSS CAFE POLAND" Spolka z ograniczona odpowiedzialnoscia | legal | pl | 2008-01-07 | |
| "ELITE CAFE" Spolka z ograniczona odpowiedzialnoscia | legal | pl | 2002-05-22 | 2008-01-07 |
| "ELITE POLSKA" Spolka z ograniczona odpowiedzialnoscia | legal | pl | | 2002-05-22 |
| Elite Cafe | name | pl | | 2008-01-07 |
| Strauss Cafe Poland Sp. z o.o. | search | pl | | |
| Union Coffee Poland | search | pl | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | ---------------------------- | ------------ | --------- | -------------------- | ------------------- | ------------ | ----------------------------------------- | -------- |
| strauss | https://strauss-cafe.pl/nasze-marki/ | Strauss Cafe Poland: Nasze marki | 2026-09-14 | Strauss Cafe Poland | manufacturer | | | MK Cafe, Pedro's | | | |
| strauss-home | https://strauss-cafe.pl/ | Strauss Cafe Poland: strona glowna | 2026-09-14 | Strauss Cafe Poland | manufacturer | | | Poznaj nas blizej | | | |
| wiki-scp | https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss_Cafe_Poland | Wikipedia: Strauss Cafe Poland | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| krs | https://api-krs.ms.gov.pl/api/krs/OdpisAktualny/0000083445?rejestr=P&format=json | Krajowy Rejestr Sadowy: odpis aktualny, "Strauss Cafe Poland" Sp. z o.o. | 2026-09-14 | Ministerstwo Sprawiedliwosci | registry | | 0000083445 | Dzial 1, Dzial 3 | | | |
| krs-pelny | https://api-krs.ms.gov.pl/api/krs/OdpisPelny/0000083445?rejestr=P&format=json | Krajowy Rejestr Sadowy: odpis pelny, "Strauss Cafe Poland" Sp. z o.o. | 2026-09-14 | Ministerstwo Sprawiedliwosci | registry | | 0000083445 | Dzial 1, wpisy 1-18 | | | |
| gleif-parent | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/254900R6ZPERI77ZP102/direct-parent | GLEIF: direct parent of Strauss Coffee B.V. | 2026-09-14 | GLEIF | registry | | 254900GBA9EK5FGVQA80 | | CC0 | Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation | |
| off-prefix | https://search.openfoodfacts.org/search?q=code:5900788*&fields=code,brands,product_name,countries_tags | Open Food Facts search: every record under GS1 prefix 5900788 | 2026-09-14 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | | 11 records | ODbL | Open Food Facts contributors | |
| haay | https://haay.pl/kawa-fort-intensywny-smak-500g-mielona | Haay.pl: Kawa FORT intensywny smak 500g mielona, EAN 5900788442311 | 2026-09-14 | Haay.pl | retailer | | | Parametry produktu | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Strauss Cafe Poland is a coffee roaster and distributor seated at ul. Poznanska 50 in Swadzim, Tarnowo Podgorne near Poznan, entered in the Polish court register under KRS 0000083445 with NIP 7810020676, REGON 004859736, a share capital of 100,000 PLN held in full by Strauss Coffee B.V. and tea and coffee processing (PKD 10.83.Z) as its registered principal activity.[^krs] It has traded in Poland since 1991, was formerly named Elite Cafe, and is described as the country's largest coffee producer and one of its largest distributors, with brands including Pedro's, MK Cafe, Sahara, Optima, Fort and Mildano and a Coffee Services arm supplying MK Cafe Professional to the hospitality trade.[^wiki-scp] Its own site calls MK Cafe the largest brand in that portfolio,[^strauss] puts the company at more than 330 employees on two sites, gives ground, whole-bean and instant coffee as its three product categories, names it the distributor of teArtis tea and describes a leading HoReCa and B2B business.[^strauss-home]
The company dates from articles of association signed on 15 December 1990 and was first registered as "Union Coffee Poland" Sp. z o.o. in the old commercial register RHB under number 5395; it absorbed Swadzim Land Company Sp. z o.o. by a shareholders' resolution of 9 July 1996, was carried into the KRS on 11 February 2002 as "Elite Polska", became "Elite Cafe" on 22 May 2002 and took its present name on 7 January 2008. Its sole shareholder was Union Coffee Confectionery Group B.V. of the Netherlands until Elite International B.V. was entered on 7 June 2004; that same shareholder appears as Strauss Coffee B.V. from the entry of 18 October 2007.[^krs-pelny] Above the Dutch holding, GLEIF records Strauss-Group Ltd of Petach Tikva as its direct parent.[^gleif-parent]
No public source names the licensee of GS1 company prefix 5900788, so it stays recorded here as inferred rather than sourced. Searched on 14 September 2026 without result: GS1 Polska's eProdukty database, which serves a JavaScript shell and answers its per-GTIN API only to members; Verified by GS1 and GEPIR, both closed to servers; GLEIF, which holds no LEI for this company; the current and full KRS extracts, which carry no GS1 data; and web searches for the bare prefix, for the company's GLN and for the prefix beside the company and its brand names. Polish retailer listings of articles in the block name the brand rather than a company in their producer field, as a shop entry for Fort ground coffee under 5900788442311 does.[^haay] The basis for the inference is that all eleven Open Food Facts records under the prefix carry a brand of this company, Pedro's, MK Cafe, MK Cafe Premium, MK Cafe Mildano and Fort, while the neighbouring Polish blocks 5900783, 5900784 and 5900785 carry Pudliszki and Heinz, Schulstad and General Fresh.[^off-prefix]
<!--/about-->