Hipp Holding
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | July 1, 1932 |
| Seat | Sachseln , Switzerland |
| management |
Claus Hipp ( CEO ) Reinhard Zinkann ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | 2600 (2015) |
| sales | 330 million euros (2012) |
| Branch | food |
The Hipp Holding is a Swiss manufacturer of baby foods , based in Sachseln . The German headquarters are in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm . There is also the origin and seat of the main German factory, which was founded in 1932.
history
In 1899, Joseph Hipp (1867–1926) produced a biscuit flour in his bakery, part of the Lebzelterei that had existed in Pfaffenhofen for centuries , which was sold in Munich from 1921 by his son Georg Hipp (1905–1967). Later the company switched production mainly to “J. Hipp's rusks for children ”, but the gingerbread and wax making was still in operation. After the death of Joseph Hipp, Georg Hipp took over the production of the rusk flour and his mother Maria expanded the business with a café. In 1932 the business was split up and his brother Hans Hipp took over the café, which still exists today, as well as the confectionery and gingerbread shop .
On July 1, 1932, Georg Hipp founded the company “Nutrient Hipp”. In the same year he began to produce baby food in a former hop hall on part of what is now the company premises. Because there were problems with the National Socialists , production was relocated to Munich. When the buildings were destroyed in an air raid in 1944, Hipp relocated to Pfaffenhofen . There the company developed into a leading company in the food industry.
Hipp was the first company in Germany to manufacture baby food industrially in cans from the mid-1950s , but for reasons of hygiene, the fruit and vegetable menus have been bottled in jars since 1959/1960.
In 1964, Georg's son Claus Hipp joined his father's company. In 1967 he took over the management. For a long time the management consisted of the three brothers Claus Hipp, Georg Johannes Hipp and Paulus Hipp. Georg Johannes Hipp left the company in 2010, and other family members have been added over time.
In 2016, Hipp took over the dairy industry company Herford GmbH & Co. KG (MIG) of the DMK subsidiary Humana GmbH in Herford . Milk powder and ready-to-drink baby formula are produced there.
Headquarters Sachseln, Switzerland
In 1999 the company headquarters was relocated to Sachseln, Switzerland, where the Hipp family has been active since 1954 with bio-familia AG , which specializes in organic muesli .
Establishment of Somalon
The company history of the subsidiary Somalon is preceded by personal relationships of the couple who founded the company. The Swiss Anny Metzner and Georg Hipp from Germany met in the canton of Obwalden . The couple often made pilgrimages to St. Brother Klaus in the pilgrimage site of Flüeli-Ranft above Sachseln . In Germany, the Hipp family was already successful with baby food. In order to strengthen Obwalden as a business location and to market baby food from Sachseln, they founded the Somalon company in Sachseln in 1954 . The Graubünden lawyer Caspar Arquint became the director.
Bio-familia AG is founded
Through personal contact with Edwin Bircher, the son of cereals -Erfinders Max Bircher-Benner , the idea was born, in Sachseln a ready Birchermüesli produce. The Somalon company received permission from Bircher to name its product “Organic Bircher muesli” and in 1959 launched the first Bircher muesli under the brand name “familia”. The organic Birchermüesli was successful and could be exported to Germany, Austria, England, Holland and the USA within a short time. As a result, the company was renamed from Somalon to bio-familia in 1978 . In 1987 the foreign share was 70 percent, but fell to 40 percent by 2008 while the company grew at the same time. The products are produced both for the company's own brand and for wholesalers' own brands.
Pictures of the plant in Pfaffenhofen
The administration building
The energy center
Detailed view of the plant
Another partial view
Partial view from the south
criticism
In June 2012 the company received the golden cream puff for its instant fruit teas made from sugar granules , a negative award for the “most brazen advertising lie of 2012”. Hipp advertised its instant fruit teas, which are supposedly recommended for toddlers from the 12th month. The granules of the teas, however, contained 94 to 96% sugar, which means that a fruit tea mixed according to the specifications contained around two grams of sugar per 100 milliliters. This contradicts the claim that Hipp often claims to offer "child-friendly" and "healthy" products, explained Foodwatch. According to nutrition experts, children are not allowed to have sweetened drinks and water should be drunk instead.
In November 2012, Hipp said it took these teas off the market and since the end of 2012 simple tea bags without added sugar have been on the market as a substitute product. In August 2013, the consumer organization Foodwatch complained that Hipp continues to sell similar products under the Bebivita brand - a wholly owned Hipp subsidiary.
In October 2013, a random sample from the ZDF consumer magazine “ WISO ” revealed that genetically modified vegetables were used in Hipp's organic baby food. This was proven in almost a quarter of the examined samples from Hipp. Hipp announced that it would investigate the results of the investigation and tighten up the analysis of the products.
Awards
The company was awarded the “World Sustainability Award ” Energy Globe Award in 2002 and the German Environmental Reporting Award in 2003/2004 .
The latest awards are:
- The 5th International Economic Forum took place in Baden-Baden on October 16, 2015 . There the IWF honored Claus Hipp with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The laudation was given by Christian Schmidt , Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture.
- On June 12, 2015, WirtschaftsWoche named Hipp the most sustainable company. After 2011, 2012 and 2013, Hipp was voted the most sustainable company in Germany in 2015.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry of Hipp Holding AG in the commercial register of the canton of Obwalden ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2016 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. .
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 1, 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.
- ↑ http://www.hipp.de/ueber-hipp/unternehmen/daten-fotos/
- ↑ http://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/157513/umfrage/fuehrende-babynahrungs-steller-deutschland/
- ↑ Hans Hipp: Das Lebkuchenbuch , Insel-Bücherei, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-458-20015-4 , pp. 15-16
- ↑ Hans Hipp: Das Lebkuchenbuch , Insel-Bücherei, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-458-20015-4 , p. 17
- ^ Entry on Georg Johannes Hipp at Moneyhouse.ch, accessed on March 22, 2015.
- ↑ https://www.topagrar.com/news/Rind-Rinderews-6010720.html accessed on February 8, 2017.
- ^ Sachseln Online: Business Directory. Retrieved March 28, 2018 . .
- ↑ Bio-Familia founder Caspar Arquint has passed away. In: Luzerner Zeitung , December 31, 2013.
- ↑ History information page on the bio-familia website, accessed on August 28, 2016.
- ^ Company announcement bio-familia AG, Sachseln - change in the management , 23 December 2008.
- ↑ Finished off: The Golden Windbag 2012. (No longer available online.) Foodwatch eV, archived from the original on November 17, 2012 ; Retrieved June 19, 2012 . 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.
- ↑ Foodwatch review: Hipp takes controversial children's teas off the market. In: Der Spiegel , November 11, 2012.
- ↑ Hipp-Kindertee returns in a different packaging. In: Focus , August 1, 2013.
- ↑ Hipp for misleading in the sights of Foodwatch. In: Focus , May 9, 2013.
- ↑ Hipp sells children's tea that is still sweetened via a detour. In: Handelsblatt.com , August 1, 2013.
- ↑ Hipp takes controversial children's teas off the market. In: spiegel.de. Retrieved November 11, 2012 .
- ↑ Hipp sells controversial sugar tea under other brand names. In: sueddeutsche.de , August 1, 2013.
- ↑ Testers find genetically modified vegetables in organic baby food from Hipp and Demeter. In: Focus online , October 6, 2013.
- ↑ Testers find genetic engineering at Hipp and Demeter. In: Die Welt , October 7, 2013.
- ↑ a b Awards & Recognitions. Retrieved March 28, 2018 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 31 ′ 32 " N , 11 ° 30 ′ 36" E