Leipnik-Lundenburger

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Leipnik-Lundenburger Invest Beteiligungs AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1867
Seat Vienna , AustriaAustriaAustria 
management Josef Pröll (General Director)
Number of employees 3,600
sales 993 million euros (2016/17)
Branch Holdings
Website www.lli.at

The Leipnik- Lundenburger Invest Beteiligungs AG (short LLI ) is a holding company based in Vienna , which with its business groups Good Mills Group in the segments flour and mill as well as Café + Co in the area vending operates. LLI is the market leader in Austria for both flour and vending. In addition, LLI holds shares in the companies Agrana (calculated 11.2%), Südzucker AG (calculated 2.1%) and BayWa AG (calculated 12.5%). The main owners of LLI are Raiffeisen-Holding Niederösterreich-Wien reg.Gen.mbH with 50.05% and Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich with 33.06%. Other owners are Raiffeisen Versicherungen AG with 7.98%, UNIQA Österreich Versicherungen AG with 2.02% and the Rübenbauernbund für Niederösterreich und Wien reg.Gen.mbH with 6.89%.

LLI is known for the flour brands Fini's Feinstes and Farina, with which the company is the market leader in Austria.

history

LLI was founded in 1867 as a production company for sugar from beet in Leipnik in Moravia (in what is now the Czech Republic ). The founders of the Leipniker Rübenzuckerfabrik AG were Alfred Skene and the factory's first president, August von Skene and Alexander von Schoeller , who took over the financial management. Founding shareholder Robert Schorisch became technical director. The financing was handled by the Schoeller bank. In 1871, a plot of land was found in Lundenburg, an important railway junction, for the construction of another production facility.

The upswing succeeded under Sir Paul Eduard von Schoeller and after its initial listing on the Vienna Stock Exchange in 1893, the company established itself as one of the leading companies in the sugar industry in the Austrian monarchy of that time.

In 1902 the sugar factory in Leopoldsdorf went into operation. On the initiative of Paul Eduard von Schoeller's successor and board member of the company, Robert Schoeller , and his brother-in-law and president, Richard von Skene , the sugar factories in Lundenburg, Wschetul and Kwassitz, which were combined to form Lundenburger Zuckerraffinerien AG, were added to the Leipniker Rübenzuckerfabrik AG in 1911. Kwassitz was closed and processing moved to Wschetul. In 1926 the merger with Dürnkruter Zuckerfabrik AG took place, from which shares were acquired from 1914. In 1939 Leipnik-Lundenburger sold the stake it had only acquired in 1936 in the Tulln sugar factory , which was jointly founded by the Austrian sugar factories.

After the Second World War, the company began to diversify. At the same time as gradually reducing its involvement in the sugar industry, LLI expanded its holdings in the Austrian milling industry and the Delikomat company in the vending machine business . In 1978 the first Wiener Walzmühle Vonwiller, Schoeller KG in Schwechat was bought, whose long-time partner Philipp von Schoeller then became president of Leipnik-Lundenburger from 1981 to 1988.

In 1977/78 the operations in Hohenau, Leopoldsdorf and Dürnkrut were incorporated into the newly founded SUGANA Zucker Ges.mbH. At the end of 1979, the ownership structure of LLI changed, whose largest block of shares was owned by Schoeller & Co. The general partnership was converted into a stock corporation in view of the increasingly difficult banking business. The Schoeller Holding AG was connected upstream, in this the cooperative central bank, today's Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB) participated. LLI's share ownership moved to Schoeller Holding AG.

Due to problems with the trading company Gebrüder Schoeller, the Schoeller family, who until then held the majority in the holding company, had to sell the majority of the shares. After the closure of the sugar factory in Bruck an der Leitha and an increasingly difficult sugar market, the shareholders of SUGANA Zucker Ges.mbH decided to quickly merge with the Tullner sugar factory, which belongs to Raiffeisen. After the closure of further sugar factories in Siegendorf and Enns, sugar production in Austria concentrated on the Hohenau, Leopoldsdorf and Tulln locations. In November 1989 the merger took effect and Agrana Beteiligungs AG was founded.

The shares of LLI were taken off the stock exchange in the 2001/02 financial year. With the market opening of the former communist neighboring countries, the LLI began its expansion abroad.

The 11.34% stake in Casinos Austria AG was sold to Novomatic on July 26, 2015 .

Josef Pröll was appointed to the company's board of directors in July 2011 and takes on the role of general director. Kurt J. Miesenböck has been on the LLI Board of Directors since 2007, Michael Kafesie since 2015.

Business activity

In the 2013/14 financial year, LLI achieved sales of around 1,007.5 million euros, 84% of which was generated by the international subsidiaries. In the flour & mill segment, sales of 842.9 million euros were achieved, in the vending segment sales of 164.6 million euros were achieved. In total, the LLI employs over 3,600 people at 47 locations.

The business activities of LLI AG are divided into three segments: the flour & mill area with the GoodMills Group , the vending area with the café + co International Holding and the “other” segment.

GoodMills Group GmbH

Since the 2007/08 financial year, the LLI Group has been bundling all milling activities in the GoodMills Group GmbH holding, based in Vienna. The GoodMills Group is responsible for 25 mills in seven countries. With a total of 2.7 million tons of grain grinding and a turnover of 850 million euros in the 2013/14 financial year, the GoodMills Group is the market leader in Europe and among the top 4 in the milling industry worldwide. The GoodMills Group subsidiaries are located in Austria, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. The GoodMills Group has a total of 2,300 employees.

GoodMills Group in Europe
  • Hungary: GoodMills Magyarórszag Zrt. (99.9654%)
  • Romania: GoodMills Romania SA (100%)
  • Bulgaria: GoodMills Bulgaria EAD (100%)
  • Czech Republic: GoodMills Cesko as (100%) with shares in Delta Mlýny (100%) and AMPA (10%)
  • Germany: GoodMills Deutschland GmbH (100%) with shares in Aurora Mühle Hamburg GmbH (95% in total through GoodMills Deutschland and Kampffmeyer Mühlen GmbH), Kampffmeyer Mühlen (100%), VK Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (100%) and Müller's Mühle (100%)
  • Poland: MAZ Beteiligungs GmbH (100%), with shares in GoodMills Polska (100%), GoodMills Polska Grodzisk Wielkopolski (64%) and GoodMills Polska Kutno (60%)
GoodMills Austria

GoodMills Austria is the largest domestic milling group and employs 125 people in Schwechat , Rannersdorf and Graz- Raaba . The group grinds around 200,000 tons of grain every year. The package flour range for the budget includes Fini's Finest , the% in Austria with about 27 market share leader is, and Küchenperle , donkey flour and Farina , who are as regional brands in its distribution area leader.

History: Emil Vonwiller founded the first Vonwiller mill on Vienna's Handelskai in 1871 . At the end of the 19th century the mill was taken over by the industrial and banking group Schoeller & Co. and merged with other Viennese and Lower Austrian mills to form Getreide AG . During the Second World War, the mill on the Handelskai was destroyed and never rebuilt. Therefore Schwechat became the main location. In 2000 Vonwiller acquired two more mills in Graz and Rannersdorf.

café + co International Holding GmbH

The café + co International Holding GmbH is the main player in vending catering business in Austria and Central and Eastern Europe. It operates espresso machines and machines for hot drinks, cold drinks and snacks and runs company restaurants. 17 subsidiaries operate around 70,000 refreshment stations. In addition to Austria, the group is active in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Café + co uses Fairtrade coffee and is a member of the Rainforest Alliance as well as the bearer of the national coat of arms of the Republic of Austria and a member of the leading companies Austria .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Board of Directors
  2. ↑ Press release of January 11, 2018 , accessed on September 4, 2018
  3. ↑ a b Overview of business areas
  4. ↑ High grain prices burdened Mühlenriese LLI  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on food clusters from May 18, 2011, accessed on May 19, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lebensmittelcluster.at  
  5. ^ Wiener Weltausstellung-Zeitung: August Freiherr von SKENE
  6. ↑ a b c d Werner Kohl, Susanna Steiger-Moser: The Austrian sugar industry and its history (s) 1750-2013. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2014.
  7. ↑ Robert Schoeller
  8. ↑ Company history
  9. ↑ Leipnik-Lundenburger: Extraordinary depreciation weighs on results , January 29, 2015
  10. ^ GoodMills Group
  11. ↑ GoodMills Austria
  12. ↑ www.goodmills.at: History
  13. ↑ http://www.cafeplusco.at/die_cafe_co_gruppe/