Our history goes back 140 years, to 1884 when Lionello Stock together with Carlo Camis founded “Distilleria a vapore Camis & Stock”. Since then, our iconic brands are crafted with passion, respect and using the finest ingredients, flavours and craftsmanship.
At Stock Spirits Group, we bring together outstanding local spirits brands from European countries all under one roof. Our employees and our customers deeply value them. Our clear objective is to invest in them, nurture them and make them stronger – in their home markets and beyond.
While we take great pride and build on our long and rich heritage of crafting great alcohol beverages, we are equally passionate about the future. Innovation drives us, with Europe and European consumers sitting at the heart of our business. We want to create a truly European portfolio of brands that come together to form a strong and impactful business.
Currently it is one of the major brands in Stock Italy’s portfolio.
Lionello Stock, industrialist and businessman together with his business partner, Carlo Camis founded the steam wine distillery “Distilleria a vapore Camis & Stock” in Trieste, Italy. Company’s main product was cognac “Medicinal”.
Photos: Archivio di Stato di Trieste
Emil Plage, an industrialist from Lublin in Poland, established the plant under the name „Rektyfikacja Lubelska” (Lublin Distillery). Years later it transformed into Polmos Lublin.
By the 1920s Stock Cognac Medicinal company was one of the largest of its kind in Europe. Over years Stock expanded its business and owned a network of distilleries, bottling plants and ageing facilities in Italy, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Croatia.
Photo: Archivio di Stato di Trieste
After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Lionello Stock bought an existing distillery in Plzeň Božkov and formed a subsidiary called Stock Cognac Medicinal. At first, products were transported from Trieste to Božkov and bottled there. At the time, the company employed approximately fifteen manual workers, four clerks, a chief clerk and a director. Shipments from Trieste gradually came to an end and the plant began operating independently. The business activities of Stock Cognac Medicinal H. Planner Božkov u Plzně grew and thanks to the high quality of its products the company enjoyed increasing numbers of consumers.
Stock Cognac Medicinal H. Planner Božkov u Plzně started to produce Fernet Stock bitter herbal alcohol drink. It was very popular in 1960’s and 1970’s and still has a strong position in the Stock Spirits portfolio in Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Stock Cognac Medicinal H. Planner Božkov u Plzně distillery posted great results in 1929, however it was fully impacted by the economic crisis sweeping the World in the 1930s.
Photos: Archivio di Stato di Trieste
Stock Cognac Medicinal established an outpost in New York, United States.
Stock Cognac Medicinal H. Planner Božkov u Plzně company was nationalised and incorporated into the Associated Distilleries and Vinegar factories in Prague.
The flagship Żołądkowa Gorzka vodka brand was created in Polmos Lublin. It is now one the leading spirits’ brands in Poland.
The plant “Rektyfikacja Lubelska” (Lublin Distillery) in Lublin, Poland was taken over by the State Spirits Monopoly as part of the wave of nationalization of private business in Poland that followed World War II. In 1972 in the State Spirits Monopoly, was transformed into the State Enterprise of the Spirits Industry “Polmos”. Therefore, the factory located in Lublin was name Polmos Lublin.
Stock Cognac Medicinal opened two plants – one in Trieste and the other in Portogruaro in Italy. At that time, the company had 21 factories, 8 of which were located in Italy.
Photo: Archivio di Stato di Trieste
Company started to produce sparkling wine Duca d’Alba, fruit vodka Keglevich and Limoncè liqueur – the last two brands have strong position in the current portfolio of Stock Spirits in Italy.
Photos: Archivio di Stato di Trieste
Camis & Stock became an independent joint-stock company.
Eckes company purchased Camis & Stock. New company under the name of Eckes & Stock GmbH was among the leading producers of branded spirits in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Italy, with a portfolio of brands including Chantré, Mariacron, Grappa Julia and Stroh Inländer Rum.
Stock Plzeň launched Fernet Stock Citrus, which within two years became the second most popular alcohol beverage in the Czech Republic, Fernet Stock being number one.
Polmos Lublin was transformed into a joint-stock company with the participation of the Polish State Treasury and in 2001 privatized.
Polmos Lublin and Eckes & Stock were merged into Stock Spirits Group.
In April 2012, the company moved production from Trieste to the Czech Republic. In the same year Stock Spirits Group completed acquisition of Slovak company Imperator Ltd located in Drietoma, improving its position in the Slovak spirits market.
Stock Spirits Group was listed on the London Stock Exchange.
130th anniversary of Stock Spirits Group was celebrated with the launch of the Special Edition of Stock Prestige vodka.
A new logistic centre in Lublin was completed.
Acquisition of three brands – Nordic Ice vodka, Pražská vodka and Dynybyl gin from Bohemia Sekt s.r.o. was finalized to further strengthen the company’s business in the Czech Republic.
In November 2021, private equity firm CVC Capital Partners acquired Stock Spirits Group. It was delisted from the London Stock Exchange and became a private company.
