The story
The production of winter salami was introduced to Hungary by Mark Pick, a master butcher of Jewish origin. In 1869, Pick settled down and established a salami factory in Szeged, Hungary. By 1883, he brought in workers from Italy to help scale his salami production operations. After Pick's death in 1892, his widow and her brother took over operations.
Pick's eldest son, Jenő joined the company in 1906. Jenő bought the nearby ‘Tian’ salami factory, which had become bankrupt. This enabled the Pick family to own substantial real estate along the Tisza river and they moved factory operations closer to the river. Jenő Pick was eager to modernise the business with the latest technology. Between the two world wars, Pick factory became a leading name in Hungarian food and the Pick salami became a global brand. Jenő Pick ran the factory from 1934 until it was nationalised in 1948. In 1992, the company became a public limited company under the name Pick Szeged Szalámigyár és Húsüzem Rt and it was privatised four years later.
From Wikipedia’s article on Pick Szeged, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4