Böklunder meat factory
Coordinates: 54 ° 36 ′ 11.7 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 11.9" E
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1934 |
| Seat | Böklund , Schleswig-Holstein |
| Number of employees | 550 |
| Branch | food industry |
| Website | www.boeklunder.de |
The Böklunder Fleischwarenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG is a German food manufacturer based in Böklund in Schleswig-Holstein .
Foundation and war years
August Christophersen (1874–1952), who had been in the meat trade since 1925, founded the Böklund canning factory in 1934, in which his son Hans Christophersen (1910–1989) worked as a businessman. The company in Böklund, which had been shut down for personnel reasons due to the war, was rebuilt in 1946 and run as the “Angler delicatessen and canning factory”. Since the factory was not working to capacity with the processing of the allocated quantities of meat, people's kitchens were operated in Böklund and Satrup .
Business development
In 1950, Hans Christophersen became managing director and sole shareholder of the Böklunder canning factory, and from 1963 a member of the board of the stock corporation. He was not only the head of the company, but also his own sales manager, who initially traveled personally to conquer the market for “Böklunder” products. Since 1950 the Böklund factory has developed into a special factory for sausages.
It was soon decided to put sausages in jars on the market so that the consumer could see what he was buying; this idea turned out to be the greatest business success in the company's history. Christophersen was the first in Germany to introduce the largely automatic production of sausages. To do this, he bought a system in the USA that could produce up to 35,000 sausages a day.
Böklunder was the first German meat product factory to be advertised on television back in the 1960s. A series of commercials was shot and broadcast under the slogan “Böklunder, the sausage from the country”, thus achieving a high level of brand awareness.
At the beginning of the 1960s, the “Böklunder” brand finally established itself on the market and achieved the position of market leader for sausages in Germany. Between 1958 and 1963, sales tripled to DM 35 million and the workforce numbered 250 - in 1947 they started with 15.
With the sale of all shares in April 1970, the family company became the property of the Danish Plumrose group. In May 1971 the company was renamed Böklunder Plumrose GmbH & Co. KG. In 2014 the sausage production sub-operation was split off and transferred to the newly founded company Böklunder Wurstfabrikation GmbH & Co. KG.
today
In 1998 the Zur Mühlen Group acquired Böklunder Plumrose. Today the company is one of the leading manufacturers in the German sausage market. 550 employees are employed. The products include a wide range of meat and sausage products in different flavors, which are offered in jars, cans or self-service freshness packs. In addition to the classic Böklunder sausages in many variations, the range also includes fried and grilled sausages, sliced meat packs, ham, raw sausage, cooked sausage and convenience items of all kinds packed in portions.
In 2014 the Federal Cartel Office imposed a three-digit million fine on 21 sausage companies, including Böklunder Plumrose, for illegal price fixing. Thereupon meat manufacturer Clemens Tönnies Böklunder transferred to other companies of his holding company, the Zur-Mühlen-Gruppe, so that there was no longer any addressee for the fines. This powerful trick has come to be known as the sausage gap .
Böklund plant
Production focus:
- Canned sausages
- Cold cuts
- Convenience food
- bratwurst
Technology center
Quality management is controlled centrally with its own technology center, with product development and quality assurance working under one roof. The technology center in Satrup is equipped with technology for microbiology , chemistry and sensor technology.
literature
- Berthold Hamer: Biographies of the fishing landscape. Volume 1. Husum Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89876-339-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ District court Flensburg HRA 931 SL changes
- ↑ Bundeskartellamt imposes fines on sausage manufacturers
- ↑ Clemens Tönnies: This is how the sausage king tricked the cartel office - WELT. In: welt.de . October 19, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Monopolies Commission gives recommendations for the ninth amendment to the GWB ( Memento from August 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Proceedings against companies of the ClemensTönnies Group discontinued - fines amounting to 128 million euros no longer apply as a result of restructuring ( Memento of April 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive )