Ireks

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IREKS GmbH
IREKS-Firmenansicht.jpg
legal form GmbH
founding 1856
Seat Kulmbach , Germany
management Stephan Bergler, Lutz Hager, Sabine Krätzschmar, Hans Albert Ruckdeschel, Stefan Soiné, Mathias Warwel (each managing director)
Number of employees over 2,900
sales > € 500 million (2018)
Branch Food production
Website www.ireks.com

The Ireks GmbH is an internationally active company of the food industry with headquarters in Kulmbach , Germany. In addition to the business area of ​​baking ingredients for bakers and confectioners, the areas of brewing malts , flavors , ice cream products and agricultural trade are also part of the company's field of activity.

history

Johann Peter Ruckdeschel, master baker and brewer, founded a commercial malt house on September 1, 1856, thus laying the foundation for the Ireks Group, which is now active worldwide. The name Ireks is made up of the initials of Johann Ruckdeschel et Sons, Kulmbach .

His son Johann Andreas Ruckdeschel took over the company in 1888 and built a new plant on the outskirts of the city in 1896 due to capacity bottlenecks. The company's headquarters are still located there today. Under whose leadership was also in 1900 Backmittel on malt Ruckdeschel's Milliose launched. This first flour-like diastatic baking agent based on malt received numerous awards, including at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris. The sons of Johann Andreas Ruckdeschel, Albert, Willy, Hans and Robert, were also involved in the family business, which, after the success with the Milliose, turned more and more to baking ingredients. An experimental bakery was founded in 1921 and the company produced the quell flours Millifarin, Secafarin and Pax. From 1927 Ireks published the magazine: Des Bäckers kleine Ratgeber . The product ready-made sour, which reduces the dough fermentation time from 24 to two hours, was first offered for sale in 1930.

After the business had almost come to a standstill as a result of the Second World War, it recovered in the post-war period. In 1955 the Hanoverian Deutsche Arkady GmbH was bought.

Since 1971 Ireks has been active in the pastry range with the Mella brand and, since acquiring the Stamag Stadlauer Malzfabrik, also in malt production . Shortly afterwards, the first baking mix, soy mix, is marketed. Hans Albert Ruckdeschel has been the company's managing director since 1978. The fifth generation of the Ruckdeschel family has also been with the company for years with Stefan Soiné, nephew of Hans Albert Ruckdeschel and member of the management board of Ireks GmbH.

In 2004 Ireks bought the flavor, ice cream and decor manufacturer Dreidoppel.

Locations and employees

Headquarters of the IREKS group in Kulmbach

The company supplies customers in over 90 countries and, according to its own information (as of 2018), has over 2,900 employees around the globe, of which over 500 are employed in the field. In the 1930s, around 400 people were employed, at the beginning of the 1970s over 1,000 and in 2006 around 1,850. In addition to locations in 18 European countries, there are four more in Brazil ( Guarapuava ), China ( Shanghai ), Thailand and Canada. The first foreign subsidiaries were opened in Italy and France in 1971.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d IREKS - About us. Retrieved October 22, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Bakers trust Kulmbach products. In: infranken.de. May 7, 2013, accessed July 24, 2018 .
  3. ↑ The 2013 business award goes to the company IREKS GmbH. In: www.kulmbach.de. Retrieved September 8, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Brinkmann hires at Ireks. In: infranken.de. September 17, 2009. Retrieved September 26, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i N. N .: Company portrait: Ireks: 150 years of fresh ideas around grain , September 21, 2006, in: Allgemeine Bäckerzeitung.
  6. ↑ Company history on ireks.de.
  7. ↑ The cradle of the Ireks company. In: infranken.de. June 1, 2017, accessed September 26, 2017 .
  8. ↑ a b c d The milestones in the company's history. In: www.ireks.com. Retrieved September 7, 2016 .
  9. ↑ BÄKO magazine editorial staff: Admirable down-to-earth attitude. July 22, 2013, accessed September 8, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Company presentation on ireks.de.
  11. ↑ www.ireks.com.br
  12. ↑ www.ireks.cn
  13. ↑ Think globally, act locally. In: www.ireks.com. Retrieved September 7, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Lentia: the finest bread bases, cake mixes, custards, fonds, chocolate, pastry and specialty food ingredients in the market today. - index. In: www.lentia.com. Retrieved September 7, 2016 .
  15. ↑ a b company history on ireks.it.