Eierhof Hennes

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Eierhof Hennes
legal form GmbH
founding 1954
Seat Euskirchen - Kuchenheim
management Hermann-Josef and Karl-Heinz Hennes
Number of employees 170
sales 50–250 million euros
Branch Food Wholesale
Website https://www.eierhof-hennes.de/

The Eierhof Hennes GmbH is an egg production and egg processing plant in Kuchenheim , a district of Euskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The company, which was founded in 1958, employs 170 people. It is run by the siblings Hermann-Josef and Karl-Heinz Hennes and their parents Leo and Brunhilde. In addition to its own production of free range eggs, the company also acts as a wholesaler in eggs and poultry . The Eierhof Hennes is one of the largest egg dyeing companies in Europe, according to a statement by Karl-Heinz Hennes from 2006, even “the largest egg dyer in the world”. Hundreds of thousands of boiled eggs are produced every day.

The company ( company number NW-EP 0203) acts with

  • Poultry,
  • white, brown and grain eggs,
  • liquid whole egg products,
  • colorful boiled marbled eggs,
  • colorful boiled and painted eggs
  • boiled peeled eggs.

Free-range eggs and poultry are partly self-produced.

The company doesn't just sell colored eggs for Easter . It has discovered a niche in the market. At other times this product is sold as bread eggs, party eggs, world champion eggs, etc. The distribution is usually done through large retail chains such as Aldi or Plus .

In the Chamber of Commerce Aachen the company is managed with a turnover ranging between 50 and 250 million euros.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Cup eggs in national colors from June 9, 2006 on Kölnische Rundschau. rundschau online from June 9, 2006, accessed on April 25, 2017
  2. ^ Maren Peters: High season in the chicken coop. In: Der Tagesspiegel. March 16, 2008, accessed March 15, 2014 .
  3. ^ Eierhof Hennes GmbH: Short distances for animals and eggs. DGS, 2008, accessed March 15, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Company. Aachen Chamber of Commerce and Industry, June 22, 2004, archived from the original on November 4, 2005 ; accessed on March 15, 2014 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 47.1 ″  N , 6 ° 49 ′ 18 ″  E