Fuchs & Hoffmann cocoa products

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Fuchs & Hoffmann Kakaoprodukte GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1951
Seat Bexbach , Germany
management Executive Director:
  • Olaf Reichardt
  • Guido Colsman
  • Marc Kruger
Number of employees 91 (2018)
sales 153 million EUR (2018)
Branch food industry
Website www.fuchs-hoffmann.de

The Fuchs & Hoffmann Cocoa Products GmbH , based in Saarland Bexbach is a German manufacturer of chocolate -Halbfabrikaten: (brand name Hoco , today for) Kruger Group based in Bergisch Gladbach belongs.

history

The company was founded in 1951 by Georg Hoffmann and Werner Fuchs. Semi-finished chocolate products have been produced since 1958. After the WAWI Group from Pirmasens owned the company from 1996, the Krüger Group gradually took over the shares from 2009, which was completed in 2015.

In 2015, the company was named Supplier of the Year by customer Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG ( Ritter-Sport ).

In 2017, Fuchs & Hoffmann acquired the former General Electric factory premises in Bexbach. The existing production capacities are to be expanded on the site not far from the company's previous headquarters.

Products

Fuchs & Hoffmann produces cocoa mass, cocoa nibs and chocolate / couverture (milk, dark and white chocolate) for further industrial processing. Customers are u. a. Mars , Ritter Sport and Ludwig Schokolade, like Fuchs & Hoffmann, also belongs to the Krüger Group . The company processes (as of 2011) around 38,000 tons of cocoa beans per year into around 28,000 tons of cocoa mass and around 10,000 tons of liquid chocolate.

Key figures

In 2016, the company with 77 employees generated sales of around 185 million euros and an annual result after taxes of 1.2 million euros.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Balance sheet as of December 31, 2018 , bundesanzeiger.de, accessed on March 19, 2018
  2. Hoco confectionery industry from Bexbach on habenzu-wem.de, accessed on January 20, 2018
  3. Fuchs and Hoffmann named “Supplier of the Year” on saarbruecker-zeitung.de, accessed on January 20, 2018
  4. Now the factory gate is finally closed on saarbruecker-zeitung.de, accessed on January 20, 2018
  5. Is the chocolate Easter bunny from Saarland? on sol.de, accessed on January 20, 2018