BarthHaas

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BarthHaas GmbH & Co. KG
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1794
Seat Nuremberg , Germany
management Stephan J. Barth, Alexander W. Barth, Regine Barth
Number of employees 600
sales 220 million euros
Branch Food Wholesale
Website www.barthhaas.com
Last updated 2012

The German company BarthHaas GmbH & Co. KG (until 2019: Joh.Barth & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG ) based in Nuremberg is the world's largest hop trader with a market share of around 30 percent, the second largest is Hopsteiner . Joh. Barth & Sohn is the largest company within the Barth-Haas Group .

history

The company was founded in 1794 by the businessman Johann Barth together with his son Georg. In 1859 the company moved to Nuremberg, the center of "green gold". There the company was in competition with a further 363 dealers in 1895. In the 1870s, Johannes Barth, as the third generation owner, published the report on hop growing and hop trading for the first time . This currently appears under the title The Barth Report . The annual report is supplemented by the Hop Atlas published in 1994 , a reference work on the breeding , cultivation and processing of hops .

The number of hop traders was reduced to around 260 by the beginning of the First World War. In the following decades the number continued to decline until the National Socialists came to power in 1933, only 170 hop traders were based in Nuremberg. With the ordinance to exclude Jews from German economic life , the around 120 Jewish hop traders in Nuremberg lost the basis for their activities in 1939.

In 1997 Joh. Barth & Sohn took a stake in the US hop trader John I. Haas and has since been present on the market as the Barth-Haas Group. The merger of Hopunion Raiser, Scharrer KG , founded in 1809, and Joh. Barth & Sohn in 2000 resulted in the world's largest hop trader. Part of the group is also a hop refinement in St. Johann with a test brewery.

Company data

After the merger with Hopunion Raiser, Scharrer KG in 2000, the company with almost 470 employees had a turnover of around 400 million DM and achieved a world market share of 40 percent. The Hopunion increased sales by around DM 100 million. Sales in the 2006/2007 financial year were around EUR 100 million. The reason for the decline in sales was the overcapacity in the cultivation of hops. Due to the closure of production areas and as a result of unfavorable weather conditions , the production volume fell and led to an increase in prices. In 2007, Joh. Barth & Sohn was able to achieve sales of 200 million euros, around 30 percent of the global hop market, which comprised around 600 million euros. In the years that followed, sales stabilized and remained at around 220 million euros in the 2010/2011 financial year.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The secret of success of the best medium-sized companies. The hop trader Joh. Barth & Sohn. In: Wirtschaftswoche . Retrieved September 26, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Joachim Herr: Hops for China . The decreasing cultivation area and the increasing consumption drive the prices for the beer raw material. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . tape 165 , July 19, 2007, p. 18 .
  3. ↑ a b Robert Ehrenbacher: The history of the Franconian hop growing together with a consideration of the development and organization of the Nuremberg hop market . Benedikt Hilz, special printer for dissertations, Nuremberg 1915, p. 142 .
  4. ↑ Hop growing and trading. Joh.Barth & Sohn Hopfen-Handlung, accessed on September 26, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b Rüdiger Köhn: "We have learned what humility is" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . tape 278 , November 29, 2010, p. 16 .
  6. ↑ a b A merger in response to the mergers of breweries . Hop processors Barth and Hopunion are hoping to make profits again as world market leaders. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . tape 174 , July 29, 2000, pp. 21 .
  7. ↑ Bittersweet global hop market. In: Handelsblatt . June 6, 2000, accessed June 6, 2000 .
  8. ↑ https://www.ihk-nuernberg.de/de/IHK-Magazin-WiM/WiM-Archiv/WIM-Daten/2006-11/Unternehmen-und-Personen/Hopfen-nicht-nur-fuer-Brauereien.jsp
  9. ^ Joachim Herr: Community of fate with purity law . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . tape 165 , July 17, 2008, p. 16 .
  10. ↑ Breweries are running out of hops. In: Handelsblatt. January 28, 2008, accessed April 23, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Bad weather spoils brewers' business . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . tape 171 , August 5, 2011, p. 12 .