Agricultural frost

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Agricultural frost
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1967
Seat Wildeshausen - Aldrup
management (Executive Director)
  • David Krause
  • Ulrich Obdenbusch
  • Manfred Wulf
Number of employees circa 505
sales 194 million euros (2010)
Branch Food
Website www.agrarfrost.de

Agrarfrost is one of the two largest German manufacturers of frozen potato-based foods. The production comprises three areas: French fries (main product), potato snacks ( chips , etc.) and potato flakes for use in the food industry. 450,000 tons of potatoes are processed annually, 300,000 tons of which are at the headquarters in the Lower Saxony village of Aldrup , a district of the town of Wildeshausen in the district of Oldenburg, and 140,000 tons in Oschersleben near Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt (as of 2010).

The company is the core of an agricultural group. In 2010 this achieved total sales of 194 million, according to other information 250 million euros.

history

After an information trip to the USA, the then 29-year-old Aldrup farmer Reinhold Stöver (1938–2017) started producing pre-fried potatoes in 1967. With a second-hand machine and five employees, he processed 600 tons of potatoes in the first year and achieved sales of DM 200,000. In the following year he began to sell directly to the catering trade ( Stöver Frischdienst ). Since his own arable land was no longer sufficient, from 1970 he concluded cultivation and purchase contracts for their potatoes with other farmers. In 1972, when the subsidiary Agrarfrost was founded, he started producing frozen goods, which he supplied to food retailers. In 1974 Stöver exported 1,500 tons of frozen French fries to Australia for the first time. In 1975 the capacity of the cold store was expanded to 3,500 tons, in 1979 the storage capacity for raw potatoes was increased to 20,000 tons, and in 1981 the production facilities were modernized.

The range was soon expanded to include a delicatessen division. In addition, there was meat from our own broiler and pig farms, with waste from potato processing being used as part of the animal feed.

When McDonald’s became a customer in 1985 (until today the largest single purchaser of agrarfrost), this brought an enormous upswing. In 1989 Stöver took over the fish processing company Weser Feinkost, founded by Arthur Meyer in Syke near Bremen . After the annexation of the former GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany, Stöver opened another plant in Oschersleben in 1992. With the construction of a new potato hall, the storage capacity was increased again to 225,000 tons.

In 1997 Stöver was already producing 150,000 tons of potato products, 20,000 tons of delicatessen and 5,000 tons of meat and sausage products. Reinhold Stöver's son Eike (* 1972) has been involved in the company and its management since the turn of the millennium.

In 2001 a new deep-freeze warehouse was built and the chip production capacity, which takes place exclusively in Oschersleben, more than doubled from 1.5 tons per hour with a second line to 3.5 tons per hour. At that time, the group's turnover had risen to EUR 380 million.

On March 26, 2004, company founder Reinhold Stöver was awarded the Order of Merit 1st Class of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit (presented in January 2005).

In 2006 there was a cut with concentration on the core business. The Stöver Frischdienst was at the REWE bulk consumer service sold Weser delicatessen to the Dutch shipping company and herring processing Haasnoot Vis sold, 2,010 of them to the Homann Feinkost group of HK Food ( Heiner Kamps , Theo Müller resold) that the work in Syke Closed at the end of April 2011 for reasons of market shakeout.

Agrarfrost is a member of the European Union of Potato Processors EUPPA and of the Association of the German Frozen Institute . At the beginning of 2012, Agrarfrost joined the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil . In 2014, Agrarfrost invested at the Oschersleben site in measures funded by the Federal Environment Ministry for the recovery and efficient use of waste heat.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Company profile - Agrarfrost. wirdzu-wem.de, accessed on January 25, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Mario Brück: Agrarfrost: The Potato King from Aldrup , Wirtschaftswoche , December 7, 2010.
  3. ↑ Agrarfrost founder Reinhold Stöver died at the age of 79 , accessed on October 22, 2017.
  4. ↑ Reference project ( Memento from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), www.sachsen-anhalt.de.
  5. ^ Cross of Merit for Reinhold Stöver . Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung (AHGZ) No. 2005/3 of January 22, 2005.
  6. ↑ Stöver Group sells delicatessen division , NWZonline, October 18, 2006.
  7. ↑ Homann closes Weser Feinkost , Weser-Kurier, January 15, 2011.
  8. ↑ EUPPA - Companies ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Deutsches Tiefkühlinstitut eV - Agrarfrost GmbH & Co. KG
  10. ↑ RSPO members .
  11. ↑ Agrarfrost receives 760,000 euros for the use of waste heat in the production of French fries and chips , January 10, 2014.