Businesses
Businesses aim to sell products and/or services to customers, thereby generating revenue.
In this context it particularly concerns the businesses founded by Otto Frank and companies that traded with them. After settling in Amsterdam in 1933, he started a company there under the name NV Nederlandsche Opekta Mij. It was a branch of the Cologne-based parent company Opekta GmbH. The name Opekta stood for Obstpektin aus dem Apfel, or fruit pectin from apples.
A few years later, Frank started a second company under the name Pectacon NV. This company focused on the sale of herbs and spices. At the beginning of 1940, both companies moved to Prinsengracht 263.