DF World of Spices

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DF World of Spices GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1952
Seat Dissen am Teutoburg Forest , Lower Saxony , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Nils Meyer-Pries, Alexander Fuchs, Matthias Grüssing, Jan Plambeck, Dirk Haucap, André Kich, Helmut Mank
Number of employees 3,100
sales EUR 519.3 million
Branch Food
Website www.fuchs.de
As of December 31, 2018

Schönbrunn spice factory

The Fuchs Group with the leading DF World of Spices GmbH based in Dissen am Teutoburg Forest is a German company in the food industry . Today's group of companies going to the fox Spices GmbH back

The company produces all kinds of spices . Fuchs Gewitze GmbH is represented internationally with 20 production sites on four continents. The company produces around 100,000 tons of spices every year. Fuchs Gewitze GmbH has a 75% market share in Germany . It was founded in 1952 by Dieter Fuchs. The product with the highest sales is pepper . The company sells around 7,000 products (as of 2011) and, in addition to the company headquarters in Dissen, has two other locations in Germany. The processing of raw materials, the filling of large containers and the production of delicatessen sauces and marinades are concentrated in Dissen and Melle , while products for the food trade and end consumers are manufactured in Schönbrunn , the largest factory of the Fuchs Group.

history

The company was founded in 1952 by Dieter Fuchs (1928–2019). In the beginning he used a bicycle to supply households with salt and pepper in bags. In 1963 he brought the Fuchs decor box onto the market, and in 1970 he introduced the first spice racks for supermarkets. In 1981 the company bought the manufacturer Weiand . In addition, the company took over its competitor Ostmann Gewürz in 1998 . Two years later, the manufacturer Ubena followed . Another two years later, in 2002, the company bought the Wagner Gewürz company and thus incorporated its last major competitor. In 2006 the company decided to enter the delicatessen and ready-made meals market and bought Theodor Kattus GmbH and the Asian brand Bamboo Garden . Since 2008 the company has also been active in the market for stocks , soups and sauces, where it uses the Escoffier brand . From 2011 to 2012, Fuchs increased sales from 522 million euros to 553 million euros. In 2013, Dieter Fuchs gave up all management functions in the company on September 1, but remained active in an advisory capacity. At this time Carsten Wehrmann (* 1968 in Höxter) took over the overall management of the company. Wehrmann had been managing director of Lindt & Sprüngli Austria since 2010 . After only five months, however, Wehrmann left the company again. Nils Meyer-Pries (* 1970;), Andre Kich (* 1957), Dirk Haucap (* 1969) and Helmut Mank (* 1956) are currently at the top of the company. In 2016, the 87-year-old spice patriarch Dieter Fuchs transferred the majority of his shares in the parent company DF World of Spices (WOS) to the non-profit Dieter Fuchs Foundation. The foundation, located in Dissen, previously appeared primarily through research funding. Fuchs' son Alexander is the managing director of Fuchs Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, which is also based in Dissen. In 2016 it was announced that the Finnish Paulig Group, which has a 25.01% stake in WOS, is to control the parent company at the side of the company founder. In 2017, Fuchs took over the second largest English spice producer Bart Ingredients from Bristol.

In 2011 Dieter Fuchs was awarded the “ Golden Sugar Loaf ”, a prize from the consumer goods industry in Germany, for his life's work .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2018 , bundesanzeiger.de, accessed on August 17, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c d Michael Clasen: Europe's king of spices is retiring . In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of July 27, 2013, p. 6 ( online , accessed on October 14, 2015).
  3. ↑ Article in the Financial Times Deutschland ( Memento from December 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Article of the Bildzeitung world market leader
  5. ↑ Spice producer Dieter Fuchs is dead. In: mdr.de. Norddeutscher Rundfunk , March 1, 2019, accessed on March 4, 2019 .
  6. ^ Article of the Financial Times of April 18, 2011 ( Memento of April 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Fuchs Gewürz - Wehrmann goes . In: Food Practice . LPV Media GmbH. February 18, 2014. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
  8. ↑ Spice Patriarch plans a successor. In: Handelsblatt . June 2, 2016, accessed December 3, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Christian Schaudwet: Founder withdraws: majority of the Fuchs spice company goes to the foundation. In: noz.de. June 2, 2016, accessed December 3, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Spice pioneer Dieter Fuchs is dead , Handelsblatt, March 1, 2019
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  12. ↑ Fuchs Gewürz arranges succession. In: cash.at. June 8, 2016, accessed December 3, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Stefanie Adomeit: Silence about the purchase price: Fuchs takes over the second largest English spice producer. In: noz.de. October 19, 2017. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .