Heiner Kamps

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Master's certificate from 1979, in the Düsseldorf Café "Bastians"

Heiner Kamps (born May 24, 1955 in Bocholt ) is a German entrepreneur who is best known for the German bakery chain Kamps he built.

Life

Kamps was born as the oldest son of a baker and grew up with six siblings on a farm near Bocholt . At the age of 14 he began to play water polo and was a player in the German water polo league until he was 25 . After finishing school, he began his training as a baker in his parents' company. This was followed by an apprenticeship as a pastry chef in Berlin and further training to become a master baker and industrial baker in various places in Germany.

Construction of the large bakery

The first Kamps branch 16 years after opening

In 1982 Kamps opened its first own bakery on Friedrichstrasse in Düsseldorf . In the next ten years he opened 19 more branches and thus laid the foundation for his large company. In 1991 he sold his branches to Borden Inc. , based in Ohio , which already owned the Weber bakery chain in Germany , and took over the management of the German subsidiary. In 1996 he founded the BBG Bäckerei Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH , which took over the 350 German branches of the Weber Retail Group and was converted into Kamps AG in 1997 . The IPO followed in April 1998 . The company bought large quantities of bakeries and bakery chains, including in France and the market leader in the Netherlands, the Bakker Bart Food Group . In addition, several large bakeries were acquired that do not sell their products through traditional bakery branches. By taking over a number of domestic and foreign bakery chains, his company expanded, so that Kamps AG became one of the largest European baked goods manufacturers.

In 2002, Kamps AG , which meanwhile had 1,000 branches and generated sales of 1.8 billion euros, was taken over by the Italian group Barilla . It is estimated that Heiner Kamps received 60 million euros from the sale. In 2010 the chain with around 700 branches went to the Dutchman Jaap Schalken.

Activities since the sale

Heiner Kamps, who was subject to a non- compete agreement with Barilla until the end of 2005 , has since invested the money raised through the sale in other companies. In spring 2005 he founded Kamps Food Retail Investment SA and became managing director of the Nordsee fast-food chain , in which he had previously held a minority stake. In June 2007, Kamps took over Homann Feinkost, a company with 1200 employees . The Kamps Food Retail Investment in mid 2007 by the International Food Retail Capital acquired (IFR Capital). Heiner Kamps has a 23.7% stake in IFR Capital. Heinrich Hamker Lebensmittelwerke took over the company in January 2008 . Meanwhile, 80% of the IFR portions of Theo Müller were taken and the acquired companies with the Müller-Milch -Molkereien and dairy Weihenstephan ( Weihenstephan integrated) into the Müller Group.

At the beginning of September 2005 he announced that he would be returning to the baked goods business from the beginning of 2006. A planned acquisition of the majority in Wiener Ankerbrot in 2006 failed. In mid-2009 Kamps acquired the license for the “Livio” brand in the areas of ketchup, mayonnaise and dressings through Homann Feinkost GmbH from Peter Kölln , and at the end of 2009 IFR Capital acquired the Nadler Feinkost Group from the British Uniq .

Commitment and family

Heiner Kamps with his wife Ella at the Radio Regenbogen Award 2019.
  • Kamps is occasionally critical of organic products . He thinks it is neither better nor healthier, organic is “primarily a matter of attitude”.
  • His now divorced marriage to Petra Kamps (née Walther) had two children: son Sebastian Kamps (married to presenter Gülcan Kamps ) and daughter Judith Kamps (married to entrepreneur Luis Garcia Fanjul). Sebastian is also a baker and after the sale of Kamps AG, his father helped him open his Düsseldorf bakery, Bastians, in 2004. Heiner Kamps has another son (* 2001) and was married to Dijanah Medunjanin since 2008. He divorced her in 2012 and married Ella Mayer in the same year.
  • Kamps has been sponsoring the German water polo league since 2007. Furthermore, he is committed to the water polo youth and in 2011 hosted the “North Sea Water Polo School Cup” for elementary schools.

Web links

Commons : Heiner Kamps  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mathias Irle: How do you actually become a baker, Mr. Kamps? ( Memento from June 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: FAZ Hochschulanzeiger. Status: March 21, 2005, accessed on July 22, 2007.
  2. ↑ a b Rheinische Post . dated March 9, 2005.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Who is Heiner Kamps? In: Die Welt from August 6, 2007, accessed on May 22, 2014.
  4. ^ FAZ: Kamps buys North Sea restaurants. In: FAZ . Status: August 9, 2005, accessed on July 22, 2007.
  5. ↑ Holländer runs 700 bakeries , on rp-online.de , accessed on May 22, 2014.
  6. ↑ Nordsee GmbH: Sale of NORDSEE GmbH approved. ( Memento from June 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), In: Nordsee press releases , accessed on July 22, 2007 (PDF)
  7. ↑ Federal competition authority: Merger registration - announcement according to § 10 Abs 3 Z 2 KartG, Theo Müller; IFR Capital; IFR Jersey of December 28, 2009, accessed April 4, 2011 (incorrect link)
  8. ↑ As a participant in Anne Will , see also the quote from the broadcast.
  9. ↑ World Cup in Melbourne - water polo freed from its shackles . From faz.net , accessed May 22, 2014.
  10. ↑ North Sea Water Polo School Cup 2011 - With Kamps water polo goes back to school. ( Memento of the original from March 11, 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. On dsv.de , accessed on May 22, 2014. (PDF)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dsv.de
personal data
SURNAME Kamps, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Bocholt