Frigemo
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1943 |
| Seat | Bern , Switzerland |
| management | Beat Wittmer ( CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | 850 (2008) |
| sales | 450 million CHF (2008) |
| Branch | Food , wholesale |
| Website | www.frigemo.ch |
| As of December 31, 2008 | |
The Frigemo AG , headquartered in Bern is a Swiss food manufacturer . The company, which is part of the Fenaco Group, produces and markets fresh, chilled and frozen products for the catering and retail trade . The product range includes potato products , pasta and ready meals , eggs , vegetables , fruits and salads as well as finger food .
Frigemo is the market leader in Switzerland in the manufacture of chilled and frozen potato products and one of the largest egg trading companies. Frigemo has also been the exclusive French fries supplier to McDonald’s Switzerland since 1976 .
In addition to Frigemo AG with production sites in Cressier, Bern, Märstetten, Mellingen and Zollikofen, the Frigemo Group also includes several trading companies. The group of companies employs a total of 850 people and in 2008 generated sales of 450 million Swiss francs. The core of this is Frigemo AG with 600 employees and a turnover of 300 million francs.
history
The company was founded in 1943 under the name Cisac in Cressier in Neuchâtel and initially produced flakes for food. In 1961 the production of food from potatoes started; Knorr launched Stocki, an instant mashed potato , which Frigemo still produces today. With a stake of 50% each, VOLG and VLG Bern founded FRIGEMO AG in 1974, based in Zollikofen , and frozen vegetables and pasta were added.
Through the merger of agricultural cooperative associations, Fenaco was created at the end of 1993, under whose umbrella the company, now trading under the name Frigemo , was newly incorporated with its headquarters in Bern. From the second half of the 1990s, various food retailers and, in 2003, EiCO, one of the largest egg retailers in Switzerland, were taken over. In addition, in 2000 the company acquired the McCain brand license for all of Switzerland.
On January 1, 2019, Culturefood (CFD SA) based in Freiburg and Berger SA based in Marly were taken over.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Convince through performance. (PDF; 4 MB. P. 26–31) The history of the merger of the agricultural cooperative associations in Switzerland. In: fenaco.com. 2015, accessed January 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Fenaco subsidiary buys. In: schweizerbauer.ch . June 5, 2019, accessed April 2, 2020 .