Kamps (company)
| Kamps GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1982 |
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Schwalmtal , Germany
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| management | Managing directors: Hans Fux, Thomas Prangemeier |
| Number of employees | 464 (Ø 2018) |
| sales | 137 million euros |
| Branch | food |
| Website | kamps.de |
The Kamps GmbH is Germany's top-selling bakery chain . It sells baked goods from its own production at over 500 locations: 446 Kamps bakery branches in North Rhine-Westphalia and the neighboring regions and branches in the Netherlands and the Middle East. Over 95 percent of the bakery branches and bakeries are operated by franchise partners with a system turnover of 222 million euros (2018).
history
Origin and growth
The origin lies in a Kamps bakery that opened in Düsseldorf in 1982 . In 1992 Kamps was sold to Borden, Inc. , USA , which in turn was bought up in 1994 by investors Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. In 1996, a management buy-out of the now grown to 350 stores in Germany Bakery operation including by Heiner Kamps . The company first traded under the name BBG Bäckerei Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH and was converted into a joint stock company in 1997 with the name Kamps AG .
By taking over many individual bakeries and several large branch bakeries, this number of bakeries grew rapidly and increased to over 1,000 within five years. There were also takeovers of branch bakeries abroad, especially in France and the Netherlands , where Kamps AG took over Bakker Bart Food Group with the largest Dutch bakery chain, Bakker Bart, from the Dutch businessman Marcel Boekhoorn in 1999 .
In addition to the classic bakery business, Kamps also entered the production of baked goods for the food retail and catering trade by establishing Wendeln Brot GmbH based in Garrel with the traditional brands "Golden Toast" (founded in 1963) and "Lieken Urkorn" ( founded in 1925). From October 2002, Wendeln Brot GmbH traded under the name Kamps Brot- und Backwaren GmbH and also produced a large number of baked goods sold as own brands by the food retail sector . Hamburger rolls ( buns ) are also produced for various fast food chains, primarily McDonald’s and Burger King . In 2003 a 49% stake in the French large bakery Harry’s was acquired (not to be confused with the Schenefeld large bakery Harry-Brot ).
Sale to Barilla and restructuring
In 2002 what was then Kamps AG ran into financial problems due to its rapid growth. That is why the Italian Barilla Group was able to buy the majority of the shares , and even managed to force the company's founder, Heiner Kamps, to leave the group. In 2004 the Barilla Group also took over all of the minority shareholders' shares . As early as 2005, the company's turnover since the takeover in 2002 had decreased from an initial EUR 1.8 billion to EUR 1.21 billion; In 2002 the group went into the red. The number of employees fell from just under 14,000 to 7,800 in the same period. A downward trend was already apparent before the Barilla takeover. From 2006 onwards, no more figures on the Kamps Group were published.
In March 2008, Barilla announced that it would sell the original core business of Kamps again; the industrial bakeries for packaged baked goods should be kept. In March 2008 the entire Kamps Group was renamed Lieken AG ; Some of the individual business areas were also given new names. After that, only the bakery chain operated under the name Kamps (as Kamps GmbH , at that time a 100% subsidiary of Lieken AG ).
Sale to ECM
In August 2010 the five handicraft bakeries and 900 branches of Kamps (turnover 2009: approx. 300 million euros) were sold to the financial investor ECM Equity Capital Management based in Frankfurt am Main . The brands “Lieken Urkorn” and “Golden Toast” remained with the Barilla Group and will be continued under Lieken AG , which in turn was sold in 2013 to the Czech Agrofert Group.
With the new ownership structure, the company focused on two goals: strengthening the classic bakery store concept in the Kamps core regions (North Rhine-Westphalia and adjacent areas) on the one hand and implementing the Kamps bakery store concept throughout Germany on the other. In September 2010, Kamps sold its production facilities in Freiberg am Neckar, including around 130 sales branches, to the Lang bakery in Stuttgart , which runs it under the revitalized name Stefansbäck . At the same time, the former Nur-hier production facility in Hamburg-Lokstedt, including around 100 sales branches, went to Nur hier GmbH , now a subsidiary of Möllner bakery Heinrich von Allwörden GmbH . In June 2011, a large part of the Berlin branches was also sold to a subsidiary of De Mäkelbörger Backwaren GmbH , the country bakery Der Havelländer . Kamps now operated 13 Kamps bakeries in upscale locations in Berlin. In 2012 there were around 60 Kamps bakeries in Germany. The baked goods in the Kamps bakery are baked on site from dough pieces supplied by the central production facilities. In addition, snacks such as bread slices, fruit cups, salads, breakfasts and soups are offered.
Sale to Groupe Le Duff
In spring 2015, ECM sold Kamps to the largest French café and bakery chain Groupe Le Duff .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Federal Gazette : Annual financial statements for the financial year from 01/01/2018 to 12/31/2018
- ↑ Report on tagesschau.de from March 4, 2008 (tagesschau.de archive)
- ↑ Reuters: Barilla sells Kamps bakery chain to financial investor
- ↑ Barilla-Signs-Deal-To-Sell-Lieken ( Memento of March 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), press release of the Gruppo Barilla of February 25, 2013
- ↑ Kristina Pezzei: bread and rolls. Baked is not just baked. The Kamps chain has recently been attracting customers with show bakeries. Only dough pieces are pushed into the oven here. taz , October 4, 2011, accessed January 2, 2016 .
- ↑ The French Groupe Le Duff acquires Kamps and focuses on further growth at home and abroad. (PDF) Charles Barker Corporate Communications GmbH, April 1, 2015, accessed on January 2, 2016 .