Enrique Bernat Fontlladonosa; 20 October 1923 – 27 December 2003) was a Spanish scientist and businessman, and the founder of the Chupa Chups lollipop company.
Life
Bernat was the child of a confectioner Catalan family in the third generation and started his working life in his parents' cake shop. In the early 1950s he went to north Spain to revive an apple jam factory. In 1969 Salvador Dalí was paid a fortune to do the logo.
In the 1980s, Bernat failed a take-over of the insurance company Iberia de Seguros to fund a new Catalan investment bank.
Together with his wife Núria Serra he had three sons and two daughters, all surviving him. A hundred people attended his funeral in Les Corts.
In 2006, Chupa Chups was sold to the Italian-Dutch company Perfetti van Melle by Bernat's sons.
External links
- Chupa Chups website