Porst
Photo Porst was a German distributor and retailer of many brands of cameras. It was founded in 1919 by Hanns Porst in Nuremberg, Germany. Porst rebadged many cameras to sell them under its own name. It used the Hapo brand, an acronym of Hans Porst, from the 1930s to the end of the 1950s. By 1996, the Porst AG chain of retail camera stores was Germany's largest photographic retailer, and in that year was purchased by a Belgian investment group. In 2001, ownership was transferred to Pixelnet, and after a period of insolvency, rights to the brand Photo Porst were sold to the German group Ringfoto.
Links
In German:
- Porst rebadged cameras at The kamera-geschichte.de website has many pages about Photo Porst, among which:
- Photo Porst article of the German Wikipedia
