It was in 1904 when two brothers, Hendrik A and Bernadus J Bakels, registered the first Bakels company in Amsterdam. The Bakels Group as we know it today is largely the result of the vision and lifetime work of the son of Bernardus, Bernard J Bakels. He led the company into manufacturing with the establishment, in 1940, of Nordbakels in Sweden. Through a mixture of investment and innovation additional companies, and successful products, were added though each decade up until his death in 198...