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Breitsamer and Ulrich GmbH & Co. KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1935
Seat Munich , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Hans Fritz Breitsamer
Branch Food
Website www.breitsamer.de

Small pack of Breitsamer Beekeeper Gold Honey 2013

The Breitsamer + Ulrich GmbH & Co. KG in Munich is a German importer, bottler and distributor of honey .

history

The company's founder was Johann Breitsamer. He had a small milk shop in the Haidhausen district of Munich and began selling honey from his brother-in-law's beekeeping there in 1935 . After the end of the Second World War, Breitsamer focused the business on the product honey, expanded the beekeeping to over 200 beehives, later he also increasingly bought honey from other beekeepers. In 1951 he built a new bottling plant in the Ramersdorf district . 1964 his son Hans Breitsamer took over the management in 1969 that merged the company with the honey house Georg Ulrich OHG in Fürth (Mittelfranken) for Breitsamer + Ulrich GmbH & Co . KG. The honey bottling was then relocated to Fürth, and in 1981 a new bottling plant with a laboratory was added in Markt Erlbach . In 1985 Breitsamer + Ulrich GmbH & Co. KG was the third largest honey bottler in Europe. Since the political change in the GDR, Breitsamer has been cooperating with the former VEB Bienenwirtschaft Meißen , the largest honey bottling company in the GDR, today's Bienenwirtschaft Meißen GmbH, Meißen in Saxony .

In 1995 Hans Breitsamer's sons joined the company. The older son Robert took over the controlling and increasingly the sales, the younger son Christian Breitsamer became the purchasing manager. Thomas Ulrich (grandson of Georg Ulrich) is the managing director and heads the bottling plant in Markt Erlbach. Burkhard Bartsch is also part of the company's management.

The company today

Before the takeover of Langnese honey by Fürsten-Reform in 2005, Breitsamer was the market leader in Germany. Today the company is the second largest German honey bottler. The managing director and personally liable partner of Breitsamer + Ulrich is Hans Fritz Breitsamer.

The company group also includes Immenhof Naturprodukte Hans Breitsamer KG , Ulis Honigmarkt GmbH , Erlbacher Honighaus Breitsamer & Ulrich GmbH , ErlFood GmbH and Bienenwirtschaft Meißen GmbH .

Breitsamer & Ulrich also fills products under license under the name Feinkost Käfer , including various mixtures of honey and other ingredients.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History ( Memento from January 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Broad honey
  3. ↑ Paradoxon Honey Market , WirtschaftsWoche , November 3, 2006

Web links

Commons : Breitsamer Honig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files