Lutz meat products
| Lutz Fleischwaren GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1891 |
| resolution | 2017 |
| Seat | Landsberg am Lech |
| management | Werner Wolf |
| Number of employees | 850 (2017) |
| sales | 300 million euros (2016) |
| Branch | food industry |
| Website | www.lutz-fleischwaren.de |
The Lutz Fleischwaren GmbH was a German food manufacturer .
Established in 1891 by William Lutz in Gunzburg as Imperial Lutzer's meat products manufactory to Gunzburg Founded made sausage , ham and ready meals from meat ago.
Since 1969, Wilhelm Lutz KG has represented the umbrella of the merger of all meat processing activities of Südfleisch . In 1978 Lutz founded the joint venture Esca Food Solutions, now OSI Food Solutions Germany, with the American Otto and Sons Inc. ( OSI Group ) in Günzburg to supply McDonald's . In 1991 Wilhelm Lutz KG was initially converted into Lutz Fleischwaren AG , later into Lutz Fleischwaren GmbH .
The company, which has belonged to the Dutch Vion NV since 2006, produced at its locations in Landsberg am Lech , Chemnitz and Hammelburg . In addition to supplying German food retailers and industrial customers, the group also operated its own retail locations as part of the branch concept. After the Kulmbach (Bavaria) site with 100 employees was relocated to Chemnitz in Saxony in 2007, the Helmbrechts (Bavaria) site was closed in 2008 , where it was relocated to the new federal states due to high subsidies - 70 million euros were invested in Nohra .
In May 2014, Vion sold the German part of the convenience retail division, consisting of seven production facilities, 29 sales outlets, nine fresh food centers and three meat markets as well as the brands Lutz, Nocker , Weimarer , Artland , Heiter - Ihr Rheingauer Metzger und Vegetaria with total sales of 435 million . Euro. The division was brought together under the umbrella of Lutz Fleischwaren. The new main owner was a consortium led by the Munich-based subsidiary Paragon Partners . The consortium also included the former ham manufacturer Jürgen Abraham (founder of Abraham Schinken ) and the former head of Vion Germany, Norbert Barfuß.
In 2014 the Federal Cartel Office imposed a three-digit million fine on 21 sausage companies, including Lutz Fleischwaren, for illegal price fixing.
On April 26, 2017 presented Lutz meat products because of indebtedness and insolvency at the district court Augsburg a bankruptcy petition . The insolvency proceedings were opened on July 1, 2017 at the Augsburg District Court (Az. 7 IN 351/17).
In July 2017, an agreement was signed to divide up the Lutz production sites among the competitors Tönnies Group , Zur Mühlen Group (connected to the Tönnies Group) and Vion Food Group , which meant that jobs could be retained. Tönnies took over the Badbergen location, Zur Mühlen the Landsberg, Weimar and Chemnitz locations. The production facility in Germaringen (Otto Nocker) and the meat markets in Ingolstadt, Traunstein, Günzburg, Kulmbach, Blaichach and Hammelburg went to Vion. The meat market in Munich and the former holding "Lutz Convenience Food GmbH" were closed.
The Landsberg location has been called Landsberger Wurstspezialitäten GmbH & Co.KG, based in Rheda-Wiedenbrück (Tönnies) since 2017, and was closed in 2020. “Otto Nocker GmbH” continues to exist as a Vion subsidiary. The company name Lutz only exists as a sales line under the company "Lutz! Markenvertrieb GmbH" based in Rheda-Wiedenbrück.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle . Lutz meat products
- ↑ Vion sells its German meat and sausage division. (No longer available online.) Agrarheute, May 20, 2014, archived from the original on September 28, 2015 ; accessed on May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Bundeskartellamt imposes fines on sausage manufacturers. Bundeskartellamt, July 15, 2014, accessed on May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Lutz Fleischwaren files for bankruptcy - 850 employees affected. Augsburger Allgemeine, April 27, 2017, accessed on May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Bankruptcy notices . District court Augsburg. Retrieved August 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Robert Hänel: Tönnies, Vion and Zur Mühlen take over production sites from the insolvent Lutz Fleischwaren group of companies. In: Thuringian General. July 27, 2017, accessed May 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Landsberger sausage specialties will be closed . Tönnies, press release, February 14, 2020