Humana milk union
| Humana Milchunion eG
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| legal form | Registered cooperative |
| Seat | Everswinkel |
| management | Executive board: Albert Große Frie, Rolf Janshen |
| Number of employees | 2900 (2009) |
| sales | 3.3 billion euros (2009) |
| Branch | Food industry |
| Website | www.humana.de |
The Humana Milk Union , headquartered in Everswinkel (Nordrhein-Westfalen), was one of the largest milk processing companies in Europe. It was one of the 20 largest milk processors in the world.In Germany it was in second place behind the Nordmilch group in terms of processed milk volume , with which it merged in 2011 to form the Deutsche Milchkontor .
Key figures
The group's turnover in 2009 totaled 3.3 billion euros. Every year over 3.4 billion kilograms of milk were processed by over 5300 milk suppliers. The company employed over 2900 people. (all figures as of 2009 and including Hansa Milch AG)
structure
The parent company Humana Milchunion eG was organized as a cooperative , so the milk suppliers were co-owners. The chairman of the board was Rudolf Heidhues, chairman of the supervisory board and chairman of the advisory board was Franz-Josef Elberich. Around 200 representatives from the catchment area for the milk delivered, which is divided into several districts, were elected to the representative assembly for five years.
The milk collection area extended to the federal states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Thuringia, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Brandenburg. The group of companies had 14 production facilities in six federal states (in brackets the health and fitness symbols ): Everswinkel (NW 508), Bergen auf Rügen (MV 017), Altentreptow (MV 026), Beeskow , Coesfeld (NW 511), Recke (NW 514), Georgsmarienhütte (NI 059), Herford (NW 201), Münster , Warburg-Rimbeck (NW 204), Erfurt (TH 601). The products were sold in around 70 countries around the world.
The following subsidiaries belonged to the company:
- intact GmbH , Münster , since the end of 2004
- Gastoline GmbH , Upahl (joint venture between Humana Milchunion eG and Hansa-Milch AG in the bulk consumer service division)
- Humana Food Logistik GmbH , Everswinkel
- Coastal Land Milchunion Mecklenburg-Vorpommern GmbH , Altentreptow , plants in Altentreptow and Bergen / Rügen
- Euro Cheese Vertriebs-GmbH (ECV), central sales company, headquarters in Altentreptow, sales office in Lünen
- Milchwerke Oder-Spree GmbH , Beeskow
- wheyco GmbH , Altentreptow
- Milchwerke Thüringen GmbH , Erfurt (delivery 1.1 million liters of milk per day),
- Frozen-Center Everswinkel GmbH , Everswinkel
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Humana GmbH (baby food), Herford , export areas Europe, Asia and Africa (Humana representative office in Moscow; Humana Italia SpA has its own subsidiaries in Italy, Spain and Portugal; there are also numerous foreign representatives and export partners in the sales area)
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Humana Italia SpA , Milan
- Milte Italia SpA , Milan
- Amorosa Humana SpA , Milan
- Editrice CSH Srl , Milan
- Humana Pharma Int. SpA , Milan
- Milk Technologies SL , Madrid
- Milte Portugal SA , Lisbon
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Humana Italia SpA , Milan
Company history
The Humana Milchunion was 1 January 1998 by fusion of Western Milk Union eG , Everswinkel and Milchwerke Westfalen eG , Herford. For the history of Milchwerke Westfalen, see Humana GmbH . This also added the coastal milk union Mecklenburg-Vorpommern GmbH , Milchwerke Thüringen GmbH , Milchwerke Oder-Spree GmbH and Euro Cheese Vertriebs-GmbH to the group of companies. Since then, numerous other takeovers have taken place, including the private dairy Borgmann GmbH & Co. KG , the Sanobub plant in Recke (both 2001) and Satro Milchwerk Lippstadt GmbH & Co. KG (2002; later Satro GmbH). In 2003 the sales company Gastoline GmbH (large consumer service) was founded as a joint venture with Hansa Milch , and in 2004 the dairy headquarters Westfalen-Lippe GmbH (Münster) including its subsidiary intact GmbH was taken over. In 2004, Mopro-Nord (now wheyco GmbH ) was founded in Altentreptow as a joint venture with Nordmilch eG in the whey division , and a processing center was built in 2005. In 2006 the Bremen-based Biolabor zur Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Products GmbH & Co.KG was acquired.
Close cooperation partner was the Hansa Milch AG , Upahl (brand: " Hansano "). The cooperation agreement ran until 2008. From November 2006 to February 2007 there was also a cooperation agreement with the Milch-Union Hocheifel eG (MUH), Pronsfeld, with the aim of a merger. However, after the farmers of Hansa Milch rejected a planned merger of all three companies to form Germany's largest milk processor in February 2007, the cooperation agreement between Humana Milchunion and MUH was terminated shortly afterwards , mainly due to strong resistance from the ranks of the MUH farmers. After the failure of the merger plans, the group is to be rebuilt in the near future and the existing sales cooperation with Hansa Milch is to be continued. In December 2007, Humana Milchunion eG parted with its ingredients business and sold its subsidiary Satro GmbH to Campina . With the sale, the Humana Group wants to focus more strategically.
The concept for the corporate restructuring of the Humana Milchunion Group was adopted on November 27, 2008. The entire operational dairy business of Humana Milchunion eG, Milchwerke Thüringen GmbH and coastal land Milchunion Mecklenburg-Vorpommern GmbH, in which Humana Milchunion eG has a majority stake, was combined in one company. The new corporate structure was achieved through the leasing of the business operations of Humana Milchunion eG, Milchwerke Thüringen GmbH and Meeresland Milchunion GmbH to the new joint subsidiary, Humana Milchindustrie GmbH (HMI).
On February 3, 2011, Nordmilch AG approved the merger with Humana Milchunion. The companies were brought together under the name Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH (DMK). This made DMK the sixth largest milk processor in Europe. The legal seat is in Zeven , Lower Saxony , the management and central administration in Everswinkel .
On June 24, 2016, it became known that the Herford Humana plant for baby food had been sold to the Bavarian family company Hipp .
Products
Milk base products, yoghurts, desserts, cheese, spreads, ice cream, baby food, dietetic products, food supplements, special industrial products, glucose supplements.
Brands
- Humana ( umbrella brand for various baby food products , dietetics , clinic food ): Market leader in Germany for medicinal food , cow's milk-free food, baby water and hypoallergenic ready-made porridge .
- Ravensberger (butter, quark and dessert specialties),
- Bio laboratory ( brewer's yeast , vitamin preparations, sports nutrition, OTC drugs )
- Hansal (dietary supplement: vitamin and mineral tablets)
- intact (glucose confectionery, etc., distribution through pharmacies)
- Leben's (food supplements, lactase products ( lactose intolerance ), sales through pharmacies)
- Florimel (sage candy)
- Sanobub ( ice cream )
- Osterland (regional umbrella brand in East Germany for various dairy products)
- Landhof (semi-hard and processed cheese )
- Landhof Breakfast (spreads)
- Golden Cheese (international semi-hard cheese brand)
- Casarelli ( mascarpone )
- Impact ( functional food sweets)
- Lasana (permanent and follow-on milk, ready-to-use milk)
- Gastoline (bulk consumer containers of quark , cream , condensed milk , red fruit jelly, etc.)
- Fonteviva (water)
- Lineablu, Dermana, Humanelle (Italian cosmetics and skin care lines)
- In addition, various brands are supplied, such as B. Tip from Metro , Milbona from Lidl , milfina from Aldi , Weidestern from Penny , Penny from Penny, Landfein from Norma (retail chain) , Good & Cheap from Edeka , yes! from Rewe , Rewe Beste Wahl Rewe and K-Classic from Kaufland .