Stavební firma Václav Nekvasil

The construction company Václav Nekvasil operated in Czechoslovakia from 1867 to 1948. At the height of its era, in the 1920s, it was the largest construction company in our territory. The founder of the company was Václav Nekvasil, who took over the family factory for asphalt roofing in Prague-Kbely in the 1860s and began gradually expanding it. Even in the 1860s, Václav Nekvasil partnered with the Karlín entrepreneur Vincenc Daněk, who focused on the production of sugar factory machinery – from this partnership arose the first construction contracts in the field of sugar production, primarily in eastern Bohemia. At that time, the company also had a partner in the East Bohemian entrepreneur Antonín Čerych, co-founder of the Credit Union in Hradec Králové. However, Nekvasil's company later focused more on Prague investment groups. In 1906, Václav's eldest son Otakar Nekvasil took over the management of the company, which continued to operate under the same name. In 1920, the Hradec branch of the company was closed down and continued to operate under the name of the construction company Robert Schmidt. After Otakar's death in 1934, the company was taken over by the representative of the third generation, Ing. Václav Nekvasil. In 1937, under his leadership, the company entered insolvency proceedings, and in 1948 it was nationalized and incorporated into Czechoslovak construction companies. In 1928, the company published a balance sheet book on the occasion of its 60 years of existence. Among the realizations listed in it are 66 department stores, 33 school buildings, 14 train stations, 11 barracks, 6 court buildings and prisons, 6 churches, as well as banks, hospitals and sanatoria, gasworks, power plants, brickworks, factories, sawmills, bridges, machine shops, boiler plants, steelworks, car manufacturers, weaving mills and spinning mills, tobacco factories, shoe factories, paper mills, printers, and other facilities.