PIB COPENHAGEN · 100 - PIB Copenhagen A/S
PIB COPENHAGEN · 100 - PIB Copenhagen A/S
PIB COPENHAGEN · 100 - PIB Copenhagen A/S
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fandtes en klichefabrik i byen og man kunne være<br />
sikker på et stort behov for tryksager, flyttede det lille<br />
firma til Vestergade i Odense. På dette tidspunkt og i<br />
mange år fremover var <strong>PIB</strong> i lige så høj grad en almindelig<br />
klichefabrik som et bureau.<br />
Personalet bestod nu af en ætser, en fotograf, to<br />
unge lærlinge og sælgeren Peyrath, der alle boede hos<br />
den nu nygifte Hjalmar Carlsen, inklusive Peyraths<br />
kone og børn.<br />
Da Landmandsforsamlingen var forbi, var det også<br />
slut med arbejdet, og man så sig om efter nye muligheder.<br />
Løsningen var at sælge føljetoner og i <strong>PIB</strong>s<br />
blad “Redaktionssekretæren”, der blev sendt til alle<br />
aviser, tilbød man nu fortsatte romaner.<br />
Ideen var god, men den tekniske kvalitet lod meget<br />
tilbage at ønske, for der var ikke råd til ordentligt<br />
stereotypi-metal. I stedet købte man gammelt bly og<br />
tin fra vinkapsler og te-kasser af Odenses<br />
jernhandlere og smeltede det sammen.<br />
Resultatet var ikke altid lige heldigt, og <strong>PIB</strong> fik<br />
pludselig skarp konkurrence af en sønderjysk<br />
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<strong>PIB</strong>’s work in connection with it, so the company<br />
started looking around for new opportunities. The<br />
solution they settled on was to begin selling serials.<br />
Redaktionssekretæren [Managing Editor] — <strong>PIB</strong>’s own<br />
magazine that was sent out to all the newspapers —<br />
now offered the various editors novels in continued<br />
form.<br />
The idea was good, but the technical quality of the<br />
printing plates left much to be desired because there<br />
was not enough money in the budget to buy goodquality<br />
stereotype metal. Instead, <strong>PIB</strong> bought lead and<br />
tin winebottle caps and tea boxes from Odense’s<br />
scrapmetal dealers, and smelted them together.<br />
The result was not always fortunate, and <strong>PIB</strong> was<br />
suddenly faced with strong competition from a South<br />
Jutland editor, Heinrich Matzen, who used a good<br />
stereotype supplier.<br />
That <strong>PIB</strong> nevertheless came out on top was due to<br />
the facts that newspapers who went with <strong>PIB</strong> got<br />
illustrations with their serials, and that <strong>PIB</strong> could offer<br />
better novels — mainly from foreign sources. There<br />
Da Hjalmar Carlsen flyttede virksomheden<br />
til Odense i 1900, sendte han<br />
denne reklame til sine kunder.<br />
When Hjalmar Carlsen moved the<br />
company to Odense in 1900 he mailed<br />
this advertisement to his customers.