Jan Hummel

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100+ Fruitisimo smoothie recipes.

My first book: more than a hundred smoothie recipes straight from the Fruitisimo counters. Real fruit, no tricks, ready for your kitchen.

Author: Jan Hummel

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Cover of the book 100+ Fruitisimo smoothie recipes, coming soon

What I build

A daily ritual, not a luxury.

Fruitisimo is built on a simple idea: real fruit, prepared freshly and in plain sight, as a ritual that fits into every day.

Customers at a busy Fruitisimo shop — Real fruit, blended live in front of you.

Jan Hummel with the Fruitisimo team, holding fresh fruit and smoothies — With the Fruitisimo team.

The Fruitisimo team with the Retailer of the Year 2023 award from Retail Awards Marketplace CEE/SEE — Retailer of the Year 2023, Retail Awards Marketplace CEE/SEE.

100+ shops in 5 countries.

Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany and Poland.

Our own production.

Supplied by our own production plant, Fruitisimo Factory.

Prague headquarters.

Near the site of the old Hummel piano factory. Where the family once shipped pianos, we now ship fruit.

No tricks.
Just real fruit.

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Where I come from

Prague roots.

Home base

Prague, Czech Republic

Proud to be Czech. In the 1930s, Czechoslovakia was the 8th most developed country in the world, built on reliable, precise industry.

My grandfather showed me that legacy. A hundred years later, Czechia is pushing forward in business again, powered by great people and honest work.

First mentor

My grandfather

My first business lessons came from him, on the summer holidays we spent together. He took me along to the collectors' fairs where he sold model collectibles, and taught me, trade by trade, how business works.

Patience, value, timing. Lessons I still use every day.

Aerial view of the Fruitisimo headquarters building in Prague — Fruitisimo HQ, Prague.

Historic engraving of the Fr. J. Hummel steam piano and harmonium factory in Prague — Former Hummel piano factory, Prague.

Ancestors & wider family

A family of creators.

Names from the wider Hummel family: musicians, creators and engineers, each with a craft of their own.

Composer & pianist

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

1778–1837

Child prodigy who studied under Mozart and counted Goethe among his friends. Performed across Europe, from London to St. Petersburg.

Pianist

Eduard Hummel

1814–1892

Kept the family's musical craft alive in his own right.

Piano manufacturer

Fr. Jan Hummel

1842–1927

Built pianos in three factories: Vienna, Prague and Russia.

Writer & bookseller

Jan Živný

1911–1986

Books as a craft. He wrote them and sold them.

Inventor & engineer

František Hummel

1918–1989

Spent his life around machines and technical design.

Automotive developer & consultant

Zdeněk Hummel

b. 1951

Entrepreneur since 1989.

Pianos, then exile

The hard chapter

Fr. Jan Hummel's pianos were played by Austrian nobility, Czech townspeople and the Russian aristocracy.

After the Bolshevik coup the family fled Russia across the Baltic Sea. On that ship, a young daughter of the family died of pneumonia. We don't forget where we come from.

Plot twist

Looking for the composer?

Johann Nepomuk Hummel, child prodigy, Mozart's student and Goethe's friend, is one of the ancestors of the wider Hummel family.

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Giving back

Mentoring and lifelong learning.

My first business lessons came from my grandfather, on our summer holidays together. He took me along to the collectors' fairs where he sold model collectibles, and taught me about business as we went. So passing experience forward feels natural to me: I mentor younger founders and entrepreneurs, in the family and beyond.

I'm a lifelong seeker of new technologies, a habit inherited from a family of engineers and creators. Abilities are built, not given. And balance is non-negotiable: building a company around healthy living makes no sense if you don't live it.