Hanover Acceptances
Hanover Acceptances Limited is the holding company, founded in 1974, of a British group of companies primarily active in the agribusiness , food manufacturing (beverage), real estate and private equity investment sectors. The founder and chairman is Manfred Gorvy, who comes from South Africa and was one of the 300 richest British people in the Sunday Times in 2007. CEO is his son Sean Gorvy. By means of the parent holding company Quadriga International Limited is Hanover Acceptances controlled by the family Gorvy.
Business areas
Dorrington
London-based Dorrington plc invests in and develops residential and commercial real estate; Founded in 1936, Dorrington was listed on the stock exchange from 1959 until it was fully taken over by Hanover Acceptances in 1980. Dorrington is now one of the largest property owners in the Greater London area .
Fresh Capital Group
Fresh Capital Group , also based in London, is the venture capital arm of Hanover Acceptances. The focus is on investments in British companies from the agribusiness, the food industry and the real estate sector. Previous participations included: Blueheath (a wholesaler that supplies convenience shops ), the DSL provider Bulldog Communications, the organic market group Fresh & Wild, iTradeNetwork (a Californian provider of software for supply chain management in the food industry), Steribottle (manufacturer of Disposable baby food bottles) and the second largest British internet portal for real estate information Zoopla.
African Realty Trust
The African Realty Trust (ART), headquartered in Letaba, South Africa (near Tzaneen , Limpopo Province ), is the largest grower, processor and exporter of citrus fruits in southern Africa. ART includes plantations ( Letaba Estates , Richmond Estates ) and the processing company Letaba Citrus Processors (LCP). LCP was founded in 1961 as a joint venture between the South African conglomerate of John Schlesinger (to which the real estate company African Realty Trust already belonged) and the US American The Minute Maid Company . Both were later fully acquired by The Coca-Cola Company . In 1985, ART acquired LCP from Coca-Cola. The citrus and various subtropical fruits such as mango , papaya , guava and banana are used to make drinks, fruit powder, purees and concentrates, which are sold both domestically and in several African countries. The by-products of fruit processing are used, for example, to produce citrus oils for the cosmetics, pharmaceutical and food industries, while other residues are used as organic fertilizers or animal feed.
GerberEmig Group
Pride Foods (trading as GerberEmig Group ), headquartered in Bridgwater , Somerset , is one of the largest producers of fruit juices and fruit juice beverages in Europe. Subsidiaries are:
- Gerber Juice Company Ltd. , Bridgwater, the largest juice producer in Great Britain (fills the Del Monte and Libby's brands as well as many grocery chains' own brands)
- Emig GmbH & Co. KG in Rellingen near Hamburg, founded in 1968, sold to Gerber by the Holsten Brewery in 2001 , today one of the largest German manufacturers of non-alcoholic beverages (fruit juices, nectars, fruit juice drinks, iced teas), produced in five production sites ( Calvörde near Magdeburg , Waibstadt near Heidelberg, Le Quesnoy near Valenciennes / Northern France, Bridgwater near Bristol / South-West England and Kozietuły near Warsaw / Poland) trade brands for discounters and is a copacker on behalf of branded beverage companies.
- Gerber S.AS. , Paris, France
- Frigo-pak Gıda Maddeleri Sanayi Ve Ticaret A. Ş. , Istanbul / Turkey, founded in 1984, produces and sells carbonated and still drinks, fruit juices and canned or frozen fruits and vegetables (in the form of pieces, purees, pastes and sauces) under brands such as Sunpride in more than a dozen countries , Joy, Joyful and numerous third-party brands from retail chains; the turnover in 2012 reached 29 million Turkish Lira . GerberEmig's stake is 63%.
In April 2013 GerberEmig announced that it would merge with the Dutch beverage company Refresco . GerberEmig holds 27.5 percent and Refresco 72.5 percent of the new company RefrescoGerber , based in Amsterdam. The European competition authority approved the takeover with the condition that the Emig plant in Waibstadt be sold.
Web links
- Website of Hanover Acceptances (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ To emotional connection ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Financial Mail, December 14, 2007
- ↑ Company profile ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Fast Track, 2009
- ^ Dorrington website
- ^ Website of the Fresh Capital Group
- ↑ Letaba Citrus Processors
- ↑ website of GerberEmig Group
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- ↑ Website of the Gerber Juice Company ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Emig website
- ↑ website
- ↑ Merger control: Commission approves takeover of fruit juice manufacturer Pride Foods (Gerber Emig) by competitor Refresco , press release of the European Commission
