Cremo
| Cremo SA | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1927 |
| Seat | Villars-sur-Glâne , Switzerland |
| management | Paul-Albert Nobs ( CEO ) Alexis Gobet ( Chairman of the Board ) |
| Number of employees | 649 (2011) |
| sales | 546.8 million CHF (2011) |
| Branch | food |
| Website | www.cremo.ch |
The Cremo SA , based in Villars-sur-Glane is a Swiss milk processing companies.
It produces and markets various dairy products such as butter , dairy products ( milk , UHT - cream , coffee cream in portions, yogurt ), hard and semi-hard cheeses such as Le Gruyère AOC and Vacherin Fribourgeois , but also milk powder and protein concentrates , which in the food and Pharmaceutical industry are used.
The company employs 604 people and in 2007 generated sales of 473 million Swiss francs.
history
The roots of Cremo lie in the nationwide butter centers founded in 1917 by ordinance of the Swiss Federal Council. The butter center in Freiburg went into operation in 1917 and was owned by the Vaud-Freiburg Milk Association and the Milk Association of the Mountain Regions. In 1927, the two dairy associations in charge converted it into a stock company called Cremo . Their aim was to manufacture and market all milk products and milk by-products that were manufactured in the catchment area of the associations.
Until the end of the 1960s, Cremo's growth was mainly based on the expansion of its product range. From the 1970s on, various takeovers were made, including a. the Freiburg Central Dairy (1972), the activities of the butter central offices in Vevey, Neuchâtel and Lausanne (1973) and the chocolate factory Chocolats et Cafés Villars SA , which specialized in the production of chocolate and roasting coffee, but sold again ten years later has been. In 1987 Cremo acquired a stake in Lacto Prospérité SA . In 1991, Cremo entered into cooperation agreements with the Laiteries Réunies de Genève (LRG) and Intermilch in Bern.
In 1998, Cremo signed a cooperation agreement with Toni AG , which in 1997 integrated Intermilch . In the same year, Cremo took over the production of coffee cream in portions from the Toni Group's Gossau SG plant , after that of Dietikon had already been taken over a few years earlier .
At the end of 2002, with the support of various milk associations and the corresponding cantons, Cremo signed a takeover agreement for part of the activities of Swiss Dairy Food, which is currently in debt restructuring moratorium . The production sites in Le Mont-sur-Lausanne (UHT bottling), Lucens (cheese dairy and milk powder) and Thun (cheese dairy and milk powder) were integrated into Cremo.
In 2014 the plans for an organic dairy to set up a milk processing plant in Lyss became known : Bio-Molkerei Seeland AG (BMS AG) was founded in 2005 by Cremo. The Lysser Molkerei Wasserfallen and the Molkerei Zaugg AG, based in Biel, were merged into BMS AG. With the opening of the new dairy, Wasserfallen will cease production in Lyss. Cremo wants to discontinue the previous brands and launch a new organic brand in summer 2019.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Figures , website of Cremo SA accessed on January 3, 2013
- ↑ Lyss: Milk and yoghurt from the industrial zone In: bernerzeitung.ch , December 18, 2014, accessed on February 8, 2018.
- ↑ Cremo: Start of construction for organic dairy In: schweizerbauer.ch , February 8, 2018, accessed on April 2, 2018.
- ↑ Manuela Schnyder: The organic line starts without the visionary. In: bielertagblatt.ch . April 17, 2019, accessed April 17, 2019 .