Gelita

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Gelita AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1875
Seat Eberbach , Germany
management Franz Josef Konert
Number of employees 2,548
sales EUR 696.44 million
Branch Food
Website www.gelita.com
As of December 31, 2018

Gelita headquarters in Eberbach (2019)

The Gelita AG , based in Eberbach is the world leader in the production of gelatin . The non-listed stock corporation is family-owned. In 2015, Gelita had 2,400 employees, including around 600 in Eberbach, and generated sales of 674 million euros.

history

The establishment of today's Gelita AG goes back to the year 1875, when a gelatine factory was founded in Schweinfurt . This merged in 1888 with the gelatine factory founded by Heinrich and Paul Koepff in Göppingen to form the "Deutsche Gelatine-Fabriken AG Göppingen und Schweinfurt" (DGF AG for short).

In 1888, Heinrich Stoess set up another gelatine factory independently in Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen . This mainly produced emulsion gelatine for coating image carriers and received a "highest award" at the world exhibition in Chicago in 1905. In 1929, for reasons of capacity, the company headquarters and production facilities were relocated to Eberbach under the name “Chemische Werke Stoess & Co. GmbH”, where Stoess had founded the “Chemische Werke Odin”, part of the Eastman-Kodak Group , in 1921 . Until March 1932, Stoess' relative Wilhelm Keppler worked as a manager in both gelatine factories , under whose influence the "Stoess Chemical Works" were closely connected to the NSDAP, which was particularly strongly represented in Eberbach. Keppler resigned as director of the Odin works in 1932, also at the request of Eastman Kodak, who would not tolerate his Nazi propaganda, and was dismissed at the same time by Walter Stoess as managing director of the Chem. Werke Stoess. When the National Socialists came to power, they introduced strict laws regulating economic life. In 1936, Keppler sold his holdings in the Stoess chemical works and the Odin works to the Stoess family. In 1937 the DGF was charged with violating foreign trade regulations and leading employees were arrested. Stoess, on the other hand, had resumed relations with Eastman Kodak in the United States and brought large amounts of urgently needed foreign currency to Germany. The “Odin Chemical Works”, which were 50% owned by Eastman Kodak Ltd., London, were confiscated as enemy assets and shut down when the war broke out. The “Chemische Werke Stoess” tried to launch an impregnation for soldiers' boots under the “Trittfest” brand. Part of the underutilized plant was confiscated for Daimler-Benz; There, in 1944, forced laborers, at that time 20 percent of the workforce, produced drive wheels for armored vehicles. The American vanguard who occupied Eberbach on March 31, 1945, was familiar with the gelatine factory as the headquarters of the NSDAP: the founder's son and successor, Walter Stoess, was a simple party member, one of the company's authorized signatory was acting mayor, and another was temporarily the local leader Party organization. The company was placed under property control and only returned to the owner after it was denazified. The connection with the DGF planned by Walter Stoess, who was acquitted of war crimes by the Americans in 1948, had only just been implemented in 1944. In 1972 the merger finally took place to form "Deutsche Gelatine-Fabriken Stoess GmbH" in Eberbach. In 1989 the GmbH was converted into a stock corporation. The restricted shares belong exclusively to the heirs of the founders of the predecessor companies. In 2005 the company, which has several branch plants in Germany, other European countries and South America, was given its current name "Gelita AG".

Products

As the market leader in gelatine production, they supply products for the pharmaceutical and food industries as well as for the photo and technology industries. Around 80,000 tons of gelatine are produced annually at more than 21 production sites worldwide (which corresponds to a 27% market share).

gelatin

Collagen peptides

For use in nutritional supplements for joint, bone, muscle, tendon and ligament health and beauty. Product examples are food, beverages, bars, tablets, powders and fruit gums.

Fats, minerals and proteins

Are produced in the production of collagen proteins. The main areas of application for fats, minerals and proteins are food and pet food. For example, fats serve as a source of energy, proteins can improve the texture and thus the enjoyment and digestibility of food and feed. Further areas of application are in the technical area, such as biofuels, cleaning agents, lubricants for machines or rust inhibitors. For example, minerals are a suitable source of phosphate for fertilizers.

Hemostatics

Hemostatic medical devices made from pharmaceutical gelatin for surgical interventions. They are used, for example, in operations to stop or reduce bleeding from injured blood vessels. Due to the biocompatible raw material, the sponges can remain in the body and are absorbed by the body through amino acids. No further intervention to remove it is therefore necessary.

Applications

The company's products are used in food , health and nutrition , pharmaceutical industries and technical applications. I.a. in the production of gummy bears , matchsticks , brawn and aspic products in the meat, hard and soft capsules in medicine , the photograph or in the restoration of books.

Market segments (as of May 2020)
In percent application
55% Food
29% pharmacy
14% Collagen peptides
2% Others

Business organization

Gelita AG is structured as a holding company and is controlled from the headquarters in Eberbach

Production facilities

The Gelita facility in Sergeant Bluff is the largest gelatin factory in the world.

Branches

subsidiary company

  • Gelita Germany GmbH, Eberbach
  • ATRO ProVita GmbH, Eberbach
  • Gelita Health GmbH, Eberbach
  • Gelita Medical GmbH, Eberbach

Awards

  • German Innovation Award. Excellence in Business to Business - Pharmaceuticals, German Innovation Award, Fortibone, Winner 2019
  • Natura Ingredience Awards. Ingredient of the Year: Healthy Aging - Fortibone, GELITA, Winner 2018
  • Life PR Award: German Innovation Award in gold for innovative detergent additive Novotec CB800, 2018
  • Nutraceuticals World: Top 100 Innovative Companies in Germany, Category "Innovative Processes"
  • Seventh Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards 2016: Four Dolphins for the company Video “You can see”. Gold in the Corporate Videos category and Silver in the Marketing Films category
  • German Brand Award for successful brand management in the category "Industry Excellence in Branding", 2016
  • "Intermedia-globe Award" in gold, World Media Festival, 2016
  • Frost & Sullivan Award, “European Health Ingredient of the Year” - 2008 New Hope, “GELITA Wins Frost & Sullivan Award European Health Ingredient of the Year 2008”

Scientific publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2018 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
  3. ↑ Göppingen: Chance grabbed by the Schopf , Südwest Presse (swp), December 31, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b c Stoess, Carl Wilhelm Heinrich , German Biography, accessed July 2020.
  5. ↑ This is a great opportunity for us , Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , January 28, 2020
  6. ↑ Gelita AG Company Profile In: referenceforbusiness.com , accessed on February 14, 2018.
  7. ↑ World's largest gelatine manufacturer: How a family dispute shakes Gelita. In: Wirtschaftswoche . 22nd September 2014.
  8. ↑ a b Gelita , Werzu-wem.de
  9. ↑ Sven Death: The Story Gelita-125 Years of DGF Stoess AG. Hanseatischer Merkur, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-922857-25-6 . (English)
  10. ↑ This medium-sized company defies the family trouble . Wirtschaftswoche , (German), September 4, 2018.
  11. ^ Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
  12. ↑ Suppliers Gelita AG Nutrainingredients, January 2020.
  13. ↑ Pills instead of jelly . In: Handelsblatt . 5th july 2016.
  14. ↑ The Haribo-Check , daserste.de, Der Markencheck, October 16, 2017.
  15. ↑ Gelatine is a real all-rounder. In: swp.de , June 5, 2012.
  16. ↑ Gelita AG . Bloomberg , May 2020.
  17. ↑ Ugesh A. Joseph: The Made in Germany Champion Brands: Nation Branding, Innovation and World Export Leadership. 2013, ISBN 978-1-4094-6646-8 , p. 192. (English)
  18. ^ Website German Innovation Award .
  19. ^ Website Natura Ingredience Awards (English) .
  20. ↑ Website German Innovation Award Website Life PR .
  21. ↑ Website German Innovation Award , 2017 (English)
  22. ^ Cannes Corporate website
  23. ↑ GELITA bestowed with two awards in Germany . Nuffood Spectrum, 2016 (English)
  24. ↑ Gelita AG - two prices at once! . Yumda, 2016 (English)
  25. ↑ GELITA Wins Frost & Sullivan Award “European Health Ingredient of the Year 2008” . Yumda, 2008 (English)