Mundial S.A. (Porto Alegre)

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EBERLE SA was founded in April 2, 1896 by Abramo Eberle, manufacturer of small lamps in small tin shop. In 1918, the company Abramo Eberle & Cia started manufacturing cutlery and tableware. In 1923 and 1928, Eberle’s first forging shop was set up with the manufacturing of forged parts, blades for knives, swords and small swords for the armed forces, and the snap button and hollow rivet plant was inaugurated. Always searching for new opportunities, in 1925, it started manufacturing sacred items.

At the same time, Zivi, another side of Mundial, founded by Paul Zivi, started its operations, specializing in fine cutlery. While in the beginning of the 30s, the first scissors and forged knives were leaving the production lines. In 1936, Zivi gave origin to Hercules, Latin America’s first manufacturer of stainless steel fine tableware. The growth compelled the company to change to a new industrial complex of 64 thousand square meters in Passo D' Areia district.

With the start of World War II in 1939, imports were restricted and the company started manufacturing its first electric motors, giving origin to the electric motor plant. The end of the war brought a period of expansion in the economy. With the aim of replacing imports, in 1947, it started the production of tableware, scissors, knives, home use machinery, assembly items of the Piteira brand and stamps in general. EBERLE became a publicly-held company in 1966, starting the construction of the São Ciro Industrial Complex, in Caxias do Sul, in a total area of 427 square meters.

The perception that the textile market would have great potential led to the creation of the fastening component plant, producing buttons, eyelets, rivets, buckles, among others in 1974. Its success was so huge that in 1982, this plant was expanded to allow a significant increase in production and expand its range of products.

As of 1981, Zivi expanded its activities to an area of 520 thousand square meters in the industrial district of Gravataí, 25 km from Porto Alegre, where all activities of Mundial’s Product and Consumer Division are concentrated.

In 1985, Zivi-Hercules purchased the company Eberle, thus giving rise to the Zivi-Hercules-Eberle Group. A period of deep changes began in both companies. These changes took almost a decade. Between 1994 and 2003, the then so-called Eberle-Mundial Group underwent a thorough strategic and corporate reorganization that gave rise to Mundial SA Produtos de Consumo, the name by which it is known today.