Hövelmann
| RheinfelsQuellen H. Hövelmann GmbH & Co. KG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1905 |
| Seat | Duisburg-Walsum |
| management | Hermann Hövelmann, Wilhelm Josten, Edmund Skopyrla, Bernd Raebel |
| Number of employees | about 800 |
| Branch | Beverage production and distribution |
| Website | www.mineralquellen-hoevelmann.de ; www.rheinfelsquelle.de ; |
| Status: August 20, 2012 | |
The mineral springs and beverage H. Hövelmann GmbH is a manufacturer of soft drinks and mineral and is one of the leading beverage logisticians Germany. The company is based in Duisburg-Walsum .
history
The Hövelmann group of companies has its origins in 1905, when the Walsum merchant Karl-Albert Hövelmann opened his own beer shop . Like many of his guild, Hövelmann used hand-operated machines to produce lemonade and sparkling water.
In 1925 the company was split up. The mineral water factory and beer wholesaler went to Heinrich Hövelmann , the oldest son of the company founder. The forwarding agency and the coal trade went to his brothers, which were also operated in order to be able to utilize the vehicle fleet (horse and cart) all year round.
From 1929 to the Second World War, a factory site with a three-story residential building was the company's headquarters. After 1945 the family developed the lemonade brand Rheinperle under the direction of the founder , which in 1949 brought the first fruit juice drink sweetened only with sugar with a juice content of 11% on the German food market.
In the sixties, the founding sons Heinrich and Hermann took over the company under the name Rheinperle-Getränke H. Hövelmann and benefited from the continued good demand, which enabled further investments to be made in expanding the company.
In 1969 Hövelmann relocated the production facility within Walsum ( Duisburg ) to Römerstrasse, where it is still located today. At that time, the plant had the largest bottling plant in Europe.
After the successful development of a mineral spring , the Rheinfels Quelle mineral water brand was launched in 1972 . At the same time, beer wholesaling was brought into the newly founded Bier-Hövelmann company as an independent beverage wholesaler. Another filling line was put into operation as early as 1973. The production capacity rose to 50,000 fillings per hour.
In 1980, Bier-Hövelmann expanded its drop business in North Rhine-Westphalia with the involvement of independent beverage wholesalers . Bier-Hövelmann is now active throughout Germany and is considered the second largest national company of its kind. As early as 1984, the “Rheinfels Quelle” bottle with the number 1,000,000,000 (one billion) was bottled.
When the formerly locally oriented company had already become one of the largest beverage manufacturers in North Rhine-Westphalia in the mid-1980s, another mineral water resource was developed in the Rheinaue nature reserve.
Four years later, the mineral springs and drinks H. Hövelmann passed a further investment program in the amount of 70 million DM. The storage capacities were subsequently expanded to 1.8 million boxes. Five filling lines were now available in production.
In 1993 Bier-Hövelmann took over the previous competitor, Bernhard Ahr Getränke Logistik GmbH in Oberhausen. The company also got involved in the new federal states through its 50% stake in Gelos Getränke Logistik und Gastronomie Service GmbH & Co. near Dresden.
At the company's headquarters in Duisburg-Walsum, a technical center with all the necessary laboratories and a multi-line blending system for the sweet drink recipes was set up specifically for product quality assurance and optimized production control. The inauguration took place in 1994.
Together with the Franken Brunnen from Neustadt an der Aisch , the family business started the revival of the Sinalco brand in 1994 with the establishment of Deutsche Sinalco GmbH Branded drinks & Co. KG . The total sales volume of the production companies reached the record level of 350 million bottles sold.
In 1995, just in time for the company's 90th anniversary, a new branding was launched for the Rheinfels Quelle mineral water brand. The completion of the new communication center with attached in-house brewery, the Walsumer Brauhaus Urfels, also marked the end of the investment program of 70 million DM.
In 1999 the first reusable PET line was put into operation. With this, the company is responding to the growing consumer demand for the lightweight plastic bottles. Sales reached a new record with 450 million bottles sold. In 2001 the production capacities were further expanded with the installation of a PET disposable system.
In 2003 Römerwall Naturbrunnen & Getränke GmbH, a company of the Hövelmann beverage group, took a 26% stake in Ardey Quelle GmbH & Co. KG in Dortmund. The shares came from Westdeutsche Getränke Logistik (WGL), a 100% subsidiary of the C. & A. Veltins GmbH & Co. KG brewery .
Together with the previous 25.2% of Bier Hövelmann, the second largest beverage logistics company in Germany, the Hövelmann beverage group initially held more than 51% of the Ardey Mineralbrunnen. With the brands Ardey, Seltina and Reinoldus, the Mineralbrunnen, which is mainly based in Westphalia and the Münsterland, had around 20% brand shares in its core market with around 140 million fillings in the 2003 financial year.
In 2004 the Hövelmann beverage group increased its stake in Ardey Quelle to 100 percent. In 2011 Fachingen Heil- und Mineralbrunnen GmbH was taken over.
In addition to Römerwall, the Hövelmann beverage group includes well-known traditional brands such as Sinalco, Rheinfels Quelle and Burgwallbronn. Hövelmann Brunnenbetriebe achieved a total output of approx. 689 million liters of mineral fountain products in the 2012 financial year.
The Trinks GmbH has retroactively 1 January 2018 all limited the beer Hövelmann GmbH & Co. KG acquired. Within the Trinks Group of Companies is Beer Hovelmann continued as an independent company.
Numbers, data, facts
Group of companies in detail
Group companies
In addition to the parent company in Duisburg-Walsum, the Hövelmann family group includes the former bottling plant of Selter GmbH Ardey Quelle in Dortmund and the Mercator fountain in Wesel and Staatlich Fachingen in Birlenbach.
Brands
- Aquintéll - mineral water
- Aquintus - mineral water
- Ardey - mineral water
- Burgwallbronn - mineral water
- Felsensteiner - mineral water
- Leonie - mineral water, fruit spritzers and lemonade
- Mercator - mineral water
- Reinsteiner - mineral water
- Rheinfels Quelle - mineral water
- Rheinperle - lemonade
- Römerwall - mineral water and fruit spritzers
- Seltina - lemonade (Romberg, Syburg, Reinoldus)
- Sinalco - lemonade and fruit spritzers
- State Fachingen - medicinal and mineral water
- Urfels - beer
Branches / plants
- Duisburg- Walsum
- Dortmund
- Fachingen adLahn (Birlenbach)
Employee
580 in Germany (2019)
literature
- Refreshment from Walsum - “Rheinperle” builds the most modern bottling line ; in: Heimatkalender Jahrbuch Kreis Dinslaken 1970; Dinslaken 1969, pp. 34-35
- 75 years Hövelmann 1905–1980 ; Duisburg-Walsum 1980
- Hans Driesen: Walsum. A jewel in the Duisburg urban fabric ; in: NiederrheinKammer Nr. 2/86, pp. 73-78
- Think loyally, act in partnership, seize opportunities - Herrmann Hövelmann, a German entrepreneur ; Duisburg 1994
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rhenish City Atlas Walsum , Delivery XVII, No. 92; Cologne 2008, p. 18
- ↑ Refreshment from Walsum - “Rheinperle” builds the most modern bottling line ; in: Heimatkalender Jahrbuch Kreis Dinslaken 1970; Dinslaken 1969, p. 34
- ↑ Refreshment from Walsum - “Rheinperle” builds the most modern bottling line ; in: Heimatkalender Jahrbuch Kreis Dinslaken 1970; Dinslaken 1969, p. 34
- ↑ Refreshment from Walsum - “Rheinperle” builds the most modern bottling line ; in: Heimatkalender Jahrbuch Kreis Dinslaken 1970; Dinslaken 1969, pp. 34-35
- ↑ 75 years Hövelmann 1905–1980; Duisburg-Walsum 1980
- ↑ Sinalco global; in: Welt online from February 25, 2006 ( www.welt.de/print-welt/article200599/Sinalco_global.html )
- ↑ Rhenish City Atlas Walsum, Delivery XVII, No. 92; Cologne 2008, p. 18
- ↑ https://www.meininger.de/de/getraenke-zeitung/news/trinks-uebernehmen-bier-hoevelmann