Müller meat

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Müller Fleisch GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1938
Seat Birkenfeld , Germany
management Martin Müller and Stefan Müller
Number of employees 485
sales EUR 606 million
Branch Food
Website www.mueller-fleisch.de
As of June 30, 2018

The Müller Fleisch GmbH (also leader of the Müller Group and Müller Group ) is a meat-processing company , headquartered in Birkenfeld near Pforzheim. Business areas are the slaughter and cutting of cattle or calves and pigs , the wholesale of fresh meat, the import and export as well as the direct marketing to bulk buyers (butchers, gastronomy etc.).

The group is one of the largest medium-sized companies in the southern German meat industry and is one of the ten largest beef and ten largest pig slaughterhouses in Germany.

history

A cattle trading company led by Emil Müller had existed at the municipal slaughterhouse in Pforzheim since 1938 . In 1959 Horst Müller founded the slaughter and meat trading company in Weiler, which he relocated to the Pforzheim slaughterhouse in 1962. In 1970 a slaughterhouse and administration building was opened at today's headquarters in Birkenfeld, and in 1976 a dismantling building with cold storage rooms and shipping (expanded in 1984 and 2000).

From 1987 made slaughter in the municipal slaughterhouse and stockyard Ulm until 1992 after acquiring the company Karl Schäfer KG subsidiary Ulmer Fleisch GmbH was founded in 1999 took over the slaughterhouse and stockyard of the city of Ulm. Ulmer Fleisch now has the individual processing steps carried out there by several subcontractors.

2003 was large consumer market meat market Danube Valley rebuilt, completed in 2005, the company headquarters again with a extension. 2006 saw the start of the production of self-service packaged meat (self-service meat) for retailers ( discounters ).

In July 2007, under the name “Bayreuther Fleisch GmbH”, a joint venture between Müller Fleisch was established as the majority shareholder (51%) with the producer group Vieh- und Fleisch Franken. Slaughtering and cutting took place at the municipal slaughterhouse in Bayreuth , which was privatized in 2010 and taken over by Müller-Fleisch. Bayreuther Fleisch GmbH is now fully part of the Müller Group. In 2013, Ulmer Fleisch GmbH expanded its capacities with the commissioning of a state-of-the-art pork cutting facility. In 2015, the Müller Group took over a small meat cutting company in Ingolstadt . It is run as a non-independent facility of Ulmer Fleisch GmbH with the company name "Ingolstädter Fleisch".

Structure and key figures

Processing locations are in Birkenfeld (Müller Fleisch GmbH), Ulm (Ulmer Fleisch GmbH), Bayreuth (Bayreuther Fleisch GmbH) and Ingolstadt (Ingolstädter Fleisch). Abroad there is an import and export subsidiary in Athens / Greece (Müller Fleisch Hellas EPE).

The group's annual turnover is over 606 million euros (as of mid-2018). The company has a total of 485 employees at four locations.

Around 80% of the animals for slaughter come from regional contract suppliers in the vicinity of the locations in southern Germany. The slaughter volume at Müller Fleisch is around 129,000 cattle and 226,000 pigs per year. The cutting capacity for cattle and calves is around 500 tons per week, for pigs around 550 tons per week. Since moving into new facilities in spring 2008, Ulmer Fleisch has slaughtered more than 20,000 pigs a week. At Bayreuther Fleisch , around 72,000 cattle and around 150,000 pigs are slaughtered each year (as of 2020). In the three slaughterhouses together, over 5,500 head of cattle and around 20,000 pigs are slaughtered and cut up every week, corresponding to a fresh meat production of around 4,000 tons per week. A large part of the delivery to customers is carried out by the company's own vehicle fleet.

Products

Beef and pork cuts, also vacuum-packed, as well as self-packaged meat (with a focus on the discount area) and offal are produced. Müller uses its own brands Süddeutsches Schweinfleisch, Bell Carna, Müller's Simmentaler Rindfleisch, Simmentaler Viande de Boeuf de Bavière and Müller's Jungbullenfleisch.

The veterinary control number of Müller Fleisch is DE BW 03550 EG.

criticism

Müller Fleisch hit the headlines in 2013 when Hungarian workers demonstrated in front of the factory gates for their wages. A Hungarian subcontractor had not passed the payments on to the workers.

The company has been criticized for years for the number of contract workers and the way they are housed. In April 2020, the company management spoke of a total of around 1,100 employees for the parent company in Birkenfeld, 450 of whom were in-house employees. The rest are service workers, mainly from Eastern European countries such as Hungary and Romania , who are employed by subcontractors who work with service contracts for Müller Fleisch.

In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany , around 300 Müller employees tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, around 240 of them were admitted to quarantine facilities. In May 2020, over 80 other viral infections were detected. These were mainly Eastern European temporary workers who worked for Müller through subcontractors. In this context, the accommodation of these workers was criticized, because the hygienic conditions favor the spread of the virus.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c consolidated financial statements as of June 30, 2018 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. Editor: Bayreuth is privatizing its slaughterhouse . In: fleischwirtschaft.de , March 30, 2010
  3. Ruth Stückle: Müller Group takes over the business operations of Meat Cutting Ingolstadt (FZI). In: Donaukurier . August 21, 2015, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  4. Not every slaughterhouse is a hotspot. In: Nordbayerischer Kurier from 4./5. July 2020, p. 7.
  5. ↑ Own brands. In: mueller-fleisch.de. Retrieved May 2, 2020 .
  6. ^ Lsw: Hungarian butchers protest. Main-Post , September 3, 2013, accessed June 30, 2017 .
  7. Edith Kopf: Coronavirus at Müller-Fleisch: Accommodation of temporary workers under criticism. In: Pforzheimer Kurier , April 22, 2020
  8. Comment: breeding ground. In: Badische Latest News , April 23, 2020
  9. Bernd Mutschler: Corona outbreak in the company: Now the bosses speak. In: Black Forest Messenger. April 30, 2020, accessed May 12, 2020 .
  10. Enzkreis wants to share Müller-Fleisch with the costs of corona quarantine. In: bnn.de. April 27, 2020, accessed April 28, 2020 .
  11. Around 400 employees in the meat factory are infected. In: rnz.de . May 12, 2020, accessed May 12, 2020 .
  12. Coronavirus at Müller-Fleisch: Accommodation of temporary workers under criticism. In: bnn.de. April 22, 2020, accessed April 28, 2020 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 31 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 48 ″  E