Emilio Stock (1868–1951) was an Italian industrialist and businessman of Jewish origin. Stock was born in

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on 3 August 1868 to Abramo and Gentile (née Valenzin) Stock, as one of 12 children. Stock's paternal

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family originated from

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, while his maternal

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ish family arrived in Split during

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. His father moved to Split in 1844 from

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, Italy. Stock graduated from university with a civil engineering degree. After graduation he built a cement factory near

Solin Solin (Latin and it, Salona; grc, Σαλώνα ) is a town in Dalmatia, Croatia. It is situated right northeast of Split, on the Adriatic Sea and the river Jadro. Solin developed on the location of ancient city of ''Salona'', which was the ca ...

, and also a factory of asbestos-cement products. At the beginning of the 1900s Stock became involved in the production of alcoholic beverages. In 1905 Stock , along with

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, another Croatian Jewish industrialist, founded the alcoholic beverages company "Morpurgo, Stock e Comp." Stock 84 was being produced in the Split-based old Morpurgo factory. The new company obtained the franchise to construct a new

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factory on the outskirts of Split (today part of the city). The factory concession was subsequently challenged by the municipal prefect Vicko Mihaljević , ostensibly due to environmental issues, while some attributed the problem to a political conflict between the owners and the municipal authorities. Disappointed by the withdrawal of the concession, Stock and Morpurgo went on to build the factory in

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, Croatia. The business was prosperous so Stock and his partner decided to build a second plant in Trieste, where Stock's brother Lionel already owned the steam wine distillery "Distilleria a vapore Camis & Stock" (now

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) which produced cognac "Medicinal". Stock died in Trieste in 1951.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stock, Emil 1868 births 1951 deaths Businesspeople from Split, Croatia Austro-Hungarian Jews Croatian Austro-Hungarians Croatian emigrants to Italy