Hassia mineral springs
| Hassia Mineralquellen GmbH & Co. KG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1864 |
| Seat | Bad Vilbel , Germany |
| management | Dirk Hinkel, Andreas Dietzel, Oliver Natge and Stefan Müller |
| Number of employees | 1,289 |
| sales | EUR 291.4 million |
| Branch | Beverage manufacturing |
| Website | www.hassia.com |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
The Hassia mineral springs GmbH & Co. KG is a German beverage company with headquarters in Bad Vilbel , Hesse . Hassia-Gruppe is the name under which the group appears in public (own spelling "HassiaGruppe"). In 2011, the company achieved sales of 242 million euros with total sales of 780 million liters. In 2017, the company generated sales of 246 million euros. Hassia consists of seven subsidiaries (head office Hassia Mineralquellen with locations in Bad Vilbel and Rosbach, Lichtenauer Mineralquellen , Thuringian Waldquell ,Glashäger Brunnen , Wilhelmsthaler Mineralbrunnen, Rapp's Kelterei and Kumpf fruit juices) and employs 1200 people at eight production sites. The company has 22 shareholders, shares may only be passed on within the family. After Gerolsteiner, it is the second largest branded mineral water company in Germany in terms of sales and turnover.
history
The company goes back to the innkeeper and beverage dealer Johann Philipp Wilhelm Hinkel, who opened up a first spring on the family property at Frankfurter Straße 2 in 1864. His son Fritz Hinkel had the company entered in the commercial register in 1900 as Hassia-Mineralbrunnen-Sprudel ("Hassia" is the Latin name for Hessen ). Fritz Hinkel's sons, Wilhelm and Otto Hinkel, ensured a significant increase in the number of fillings in the late 1920s. In 1935, a 320-meter-deep borehole in the Bad Vilbeler Kurpark created another spring, over which the "Quellentempel" stands today, one of the city's flagships, which today advertises itself with the slogan "City of springs".
The beverage producers have made a significant contribution to the development of Bad Vilbel: In 1955, the mineral spring "Hassia-Sprudel" in the spa park was officially recognized as a healing spring and, not least, the city owes its recognition as a health resort to them. In addition to Hassia, up to 20 companies were simultaneously based in Bad Vilbel as suppliers of mineral water.
Hassia has grown rapidly since the 1980s, primarily through the takeover and establishment of companies in Hesse, Saxony and Thuringia . In 1982 the company merged with Luisen Brunnen, also located in Bad Vilbel, of the Weihl family, who had run the company since 1906, and then renamed Hassia & Luisen Mineralquellen Bad Vilbel GmbH & Co.
The following table provides an overview of the founding and takeovers to date:
| Permanent establishment | place | founded | accepted | Main products |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hassia | Bad Vilbel | 1900 | - 1) | Hassia-Sprudel, Elisabethen Quelle |
| Luisen Brunnen | Bad Vilbel | 1906 | 1982 4) | Luisen Classic |
| Lichtenau mineral springs | Lichtenau | 1991 | - 1) | Lichtenauer |
| Mineral springs Friedrichroda | Friedrichroda | 1997 | - 1) | |
| Wilhelmstaler mineral fountain | Calden | 1978 | 1997 | Johanniter, Wilhelmsthaler, Caldener |
| Rapp's wine press | Karben | 1930 | 1997/98 | Rapp's fruit juices, cider |
| Hessenquelle | Bad Vilbel | ? | 1998 2) | Bizzl, Bad Vilbeler UrQuelle |
| Rosbacher fountain | Rosbach vor der Höhe | 1878 | 2001 | Rosbacher mineral water, Frischa lemonades |
| Thuringian forest spring | Schmalkalden | 1989 | 2005 | Thuringian Waldquell, Vita-Cola (since 1994) |
| Margon source 3) | Müglitztal | 1903 | 2005 | Margon Classic |
| Glass hunter | Bad Doberan | 1908 | 2005 | Glashäger mineral water |
| Country press cave | High city | 1779 | 2008 | Blauer Bock, the old Hochstädter |
| Kumpf Fruchtsaft GmbH & Co KG | Markgröningen | 1898 | 2009 4) | Kumpf fruit juices, Swabian cider |
| Bionade GmbH | Ostheim in front of the Rhön | 1995 | 2017 | Bionade |
As of November 15, 2005
1) Company founded by Hassia, no takeover
2) 100% takeover, prior to that minority stake
3) Plant closed on December 31, 2005
4) Merger
In the 1990s, Hassia expanded into the New Lands . So in 1991 were in the Saxon Niederlichtenau the light Auer mineral springs GmbH and in summer 1997, the mineral springs Friedrichroda in the Thuringian Forest established. While the operation in Friedrichroda did not get beyond local importance, the Lichtenau subsidiary not only developed into the market leader in Saxony, but was also the largest bottler in the five eastern federal states in 2002 with an annual output of 130 million liters.
In 1997 the product range was expanded with the takeover of the fruit juice and cider manufacturer Rapp's Kelterei in neighboring Karben . In the same year the Wilhelmstaler Mineralbrunnen GmbH in the north Hessian Calden followed and in 1998 the Hessenquelle in Bad Vilbel. Hessenquelle, whose production facility was across from the Hassia company headquarters, had previously been a joint venture between several Vilbeler beverage manufacturers, in which Hassia also owned shares and had the “Bizzl” lemonades bottled there.
At the end of 2001, the rival company Rosbacher Brunnen GmbH , based in Rosbach vor der Höhe , followed , which, together with the subsidiary Kaiser-Friedrich-Quelle , had filed for insolvency proceedings on November 13, 2001 . For the Rosbach company, who was in a financially tense situation due to the costly new construction of a PET filling line a few years earlier, the consequences of a report by the TV magazine Plusminus broadcast on ARD on April 11, 2000 meant the end. This had 15 German types of mineral water examined, with the result that five of the waters were “heavily” contaminated with the radiotoxic isotope radium -226, including the brands Rosbach Klassisch and Rosbacher Urquelle . As a result, sales collapsed by up to 30% at times.
On August 1, 2005, Hassia took over Brau und Brunnen Mineralquellen GmbH (with the brands Thüringer Waldquell , Margon , Glashäger and Vita Cola, among others ) from the beverage group Brau & Brunnen . This group was taken over by the Oetker Group in 2004 . The group had decided to largely restrict the company's business area to breweries and to sell the group subsidiary Brau und Brunnen Mineralquellen GmbH .
With this takeover, Hassia overtook Gerolsteiner Brunnen in the ranking of German bottlers of non-alcoholic beverages and is now fourth in the industry. The most recent takeover has also resulted in plant closures. The traditional company founded in 1903 by Gottfried Moritz Gössel in Burkhardswalde (municipality of Müglitztal in Saxony) was closed at the end of 2005 and production of Margon products was relocated to Lichtenau. The Schmalkalden site of Thuringian Waldquell Mineralbrunnen GmbH was downsized.
Since 2009, the product is Liz for the gourmet - segment offered.
Günter Hinkel, the great-grandson of the founder Philipp Wilhelm Hinkel, took over the management in 1964, and since 2002 his son Dirk Hinkel has been the managing director of the family business, which has meanwhile grown into a group.
2017, the acquisition of the brands carried Bionade and Ti of the Oetker Group belonging Radeberger Group . Bionade and Ti are the first Hassia products to be distributed nationwide.
Since mid-2019, all Rosbach mineral waters have been offered in a new glass bottle, the 0.75l returnable glass bottle (N2) from the German Wells Cooperative (GdB). The glass bottle is slim, cylindro-conical in shape and embossed with pearls near the bottom. The new design replaces the 50-year-old classic 0.7 l pearl bottle .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hassia Mineralquellen, consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2016 in the electronic Federal Gazette
- ↑ Welt am Sonntag No. 13, April 1, 2018, p. 42.
- ↑ Welt am Sonntag No. 13, April 1, 2018, p. 42.
- ↑ Welt am Sonntag No. 13, April 1, 2018, p. 42.
- ↑ Welt am Sonntag No. 13, April 1, 2018, p. 42.
- ^ History. In: hassia.com. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
- ↑ Recognition of the mineral spring "Hassia-Sprudel" from May 2, 1955 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1955 no. 20 , p. 496 , point 526 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.3 MB ]).
- ↑ Episode 86: Ebbelwei specialist Johanna Höhl The common thread: The apple wine queen ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Imprint. In: liz-privatquelle.com , accessed on October 13, 2017.
- ↑ Christoph Kapalschinski: Radeberger sells Bionade to Rosbacher's mother Hassia. In: handelsblatt.com. October 10, 2017, accessed October 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Carsten Dierig: This deal is Bionade's last chance. In: Welt Online . October 14, 2017. Retrieved October 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Slim, simple, chic: New glass bottle for Rosbacher mineral water , accessed on August 9, 2019
