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Dayton Heidelberg Distributing
- Address:
- 1247 Leo St
Dayton, OH 45404 - Phone:
- 937-220-6450
- Website:
- http://www.heidelbergdistributing.com/
- Company Information:
- Heidelberg Distributing Company was founded by Albert W. Vontz, a German immigrant, in 1938. Born in Hanover in 1885,Albert saved enough money to travel to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1907 at the age of 22. He was trained in the art of brewing and invested his money in two local taverns. Albert survived the Prohibition years by working in other businesses, and when Prohibition ended in 1933, he helped open the Vienna Brewery on Poplar Street. Albert sold out to his brother-in-law, and in 1938 he invested in the Dayton, Ohio delivery branch of the Heidelberg Brewery (Covington, Kentucky), known for its Student Prince Beer. Albert’s only child, Albert W. Vontz Jr., became active in the business in 1947, after he returned from World War II as lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. (Al married his high school sweetheart, Essie, in 1945 and they moved from Cincinnati to Dayton to help run the distributorship).With agraduate degreein economics fromUniversity of Cincinnati, Al looked for opportunities to expand Heidelberg Distributing. The firm has been growing ever since. In the 1950’s, wine products represented a large part of the Dayton operation’s sales. In 1959, Al purchased the Anheuser-Busch branch in Cincinnati, and he was able to purchase the Dayton Budweiser distributorship in 1961. Through mergers, acquisitions and industry consolidation Heidelberg now has facilities in Dayton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Akron, Toledo, Columbus, and most recently, Northern Kentucky. Al Vontz Jr.
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