Bell Germany

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Bell Germany Holding
legal form GmbH
founding September 1, 2012
Seat Seevetal, Lower Saxony
management Christian Schröder
Markus von der Pütten
Ines Opitz
Lorenz Wyss
Marco Tschanz
Number of employees around 1,200
sales 400 million euros
Branch food industry
Website bellfoodgroup.com

The Bell Germany Holding GmbH (formerly Bell Germany GmbH & Co. KG) is the German division (Division) of the Swiss meat processing company Bell AG , which in turn majority who also Swiss Coop belongs -Genossenschaft.

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Bell Germany was founded on September 1, 2012 and is based in Seevetal , directly south of Hamburg. It has seven production sites in Germany (Seevetal, Edewecht , Börger , Suhl , Bad Wünnenberg- Haaren, Schiltach , maturity and logistics center in Harkebrugge ). The two Bell operations in Casarrubios del Monte (Spain) and Libramont-Chevigny (Belgium) are also organizationally assigned to Bell Germany. The meat wholesaler Interfresh Food GmbH in Seevetal is also part of the division.

Bell Germany brands are Abraham Schinken , Zimbo and Hoppe (location specializing in convenience products in Bad Wünnenberg). The division's products are sold in around 25 European countries. In the Federal Republic of Germany, Bell Germany claims to be the market leader for raw ham.

In 2019, the Zur Mühlen Group took over the sausage business from Bell Germany. The factory in Bad Wünnenberg was taken over by Hilcona in the same year .

Key figures

The company employs around 1,200 people and achieved sales of around 400 million euros in 2014. The production capacity is approximately 65,000 tons per year.

Antitrust proceedings

In July 2014, the Federal Cartel Office imposed a fine on, among others, Bell Deutschland Holding as the successor to Zimbo Fleisch- und Wurstwaren GmbH & Co.KG and Abraham GmbH, because these companies had illegally agreed with numerous competitors for many years about price ranges for sausage products . Bell put the amount of the fine against himself at around 100 million euros (around a third of the fine against all parties involved), contradicted the allegations and announced an objection.

As a result of internal company restructuring, also known as the " Wurstlücke " ( sausage gap ), Bell was able to have the penalty notices in the amount of EUR 99.6 million lifted. According to the assessment of Andreas Mundt , President of the Federal Cartel Office, fines totaling EUR 238 million are in the proceedings alone, in the course of which fines against Marten Vertriebs GmbH & Co. KG and Sickendiek Fleischwarenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG had to be overturned omitted. At the beginning of June 2017, the "sausage gap" was closed with the 9th amendment to the GWB .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norbert Lehmann: Tönnies subsidiary Zur Mühlen takes over Bell's German sausage business. In: agrarheute.com. July 29, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Martin Krause: Salad and muesli instead of meatballs from Bad Wünnenberg. In: nw.de. November 29, 2019, accessed December 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Salads and muesli are now produced in Bad Wünnenberg. In: westfalen-blatt.de. November 30, 2019, accessed December 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Company profile 2014, Bell AG
  5. ↑ Bundeskartellamt imposes fines on sausage manufacturers , press release Bundeskartellamt, July 15, 2014.
  6. ↑ German Federal Cartel Office imposes fine - Bell rejects allegations and will file an objection , Bell AG press release, July 15, 2014
  7. ↑ Press office: press release. (No longer available online.) Bundeskartellamt, June 26, 2017, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 4, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bundeskartellamt.de  
  8. ^ BMWI: 9th amendment to the GWB - a modern competition law in the age of digitalization. BMWI, June 9, 2014, accessed July 4, 2017 .