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Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 42.8 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 7.2 ″  E

Käserei Champignon Hofmeister GmbH & Co. KG
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1908
Seat Lauben, OT Heising
management Robert Hofmeister, Rolf Esfeld
Number of employees 1000
sales Total turnover around 500 million euros; Consolidated group sales around EUR 360 million (December 31, 2013)
Branch Food
Website www.champignon.de

The cheese dairy Champignon Hofmeister is a group of companies in the dairy industry in Bavaria, in the Federal Republic of Germany. The head office is in Heising, a district of Lauben near Kempten . The main company, the Champignon cheese dairy, was founded in 1908 by the cheese maker Julius Hirschle and the cheese merchant Leopold Immler.

history

The first brand product of the dairy industry in West Germany ever had Champignon - Camembert . In 1961 the brothers Josef and Georg Hofmeister took over the cheese dairy. The group is still family-owned to this day. In 1980 the company launched the blue cheese Cambozola . Another well-known product is rougette , a soft cheese with red mold .

Hofmeister-Champignon today has an annual turnover of around 500 million euros ( consolidated around 360 million euros) and employs around 1,000 people. The products are exported to 55 countries, the export share is 45%. Today, around 423 million kilograms of milk and 568 million kilograms of whey are processed each year (as of 2007).

Subsidiaries and holdings

  • Käserei Champignon Hofmeister GmbH & Co. KG , Heising (near Kempten in Oberallgäu) is the main company and specializes in soft cheese . The personally liable partner is Hofmeister-Verwaltungs-GmbH, also based in Heising. (Veterinary control number: BY 102 and BY 129)
  • Hofmeister Käsewerk GmbH & Co. KG , founded in 1938 as Moosburg dairy, taken over by the Hofmeister family in 1952, two locations in Upper and Lower Bavaria ( Moosburg an der Isar and Pfeffenhausen ), specializing in processed cheese and hard cheese . (Veterinary control number: BY 711)
  • Mang-Käsewerk GmbH & Co. KG , Kammlach (Unterallgäu), founded in 1910, taken over in 1987, specializes in red culture cheese and is the market leader in this segment in Germany. (Veterinary control number: BY 709)
  • Alpavit Käserei Champignon Hofmeister GmbH & Co. KG : the production of whey products for the pharmaceutical, confectionery, baby food and other food industries under the Alpavit brand is an independent profit center that was founded in 1989.
View of the factory of the Champignon cheese dairy in Heising

The Hainichen-Freiberg GmbH & Co. KG dairy in Freiberg is a 50% joint venture with Ehrmann AG . It specializes in the production of Camembert cheese and is the market leader in this segment in Saxony.

In addition, the group holds a minority stake of 25% in the now fully privatized dairy Weihenstephan GmbH & Co. KG - the other partner is the dairy Alois Müller GmbH & Co. KG ("Müllermilch").

Brands

  • Alpavit, Cambozola, Champignon Camembert, Champignon de luxe, Mirabo, Montagnolo, Rougette, Rougette oven cheese, St. Mang, Striegistaler Zwerge

Awards

  • Anton Fehr badge, 1961
  • Benno Martine Medal, 1965

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b key facts. Käserei Champignon, December 31, 2013, accessed on March 1, 2015 .
  2. ↑ https://www.champignon.de/de/unternehmen/rueckblick-1980-bis-1999