Hans Snook Hans Snook Hans Roger Snook (born 26 May 1948) is a businessman, best known for his time as the founder, with Graham Howe and Chief Executive of UK mobile phone company Orange. He was born to a German mother and a British father, and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where he went to the University of British Columbia. He then began a career in hotel management, which led him to Calgary for six years. In 1983, he set off on a round the world trip, which was cut short when he arrived in Hong Kong and became Chief
Hans Adler (business) present-day company premises. In the following year "Hans Adler OHG Schwarzwälder Fleischwaren" was founded, Hans Adler’s son Peter became co-partner and systematically promoted the production of smoked products. Hans Adler retired in 1974 and the son Hansjörg joined the family-owned company as a partner. In 1975 the first portion of sliced Black Forest ham left the production line in self-service packaging. Also in this year an air-cured ham called "Alemannian ham" was added to the product range. In 1985 Adler acquired "Kinzigtäler Fleischwaren GmbH", Haslach and "Schwarzwaldrauch GmbH", Achern, which subsequently were renamed to "Schwarzwaldfleisch GmbH". Since 1994 the specialization