Meica

Meica Ammerländische Fleischwarenfabrik Fritz Meinen GmbH & Co. KG
legal form	Limited partnership
founding	1908
Seat	Edewecht
management	Michael März ( Managing Director )
Number of employees	400 ( 2006 )
sales	82.5 million euros ( 2014 )
Branch	Food , meat processing
Website	Meica.de

The Meica Ammerland Fleischwarenfabrik Fritz My GmbH & Co. KG is a mid-sized meat processing company owned by the family. The focus of economic activity is the production of various sausage specialties and ready meals . The company is based in Edewecht . Meica is derived from the name Meinen & Kahmann. The company is owned by the heirs of the company's founder, Fritz Meinen.

Legal relationships

Meica Ammerländische Fleischwarenfabrik Fritz Meinen GmbH & Co. KG is entered in the Oldenburg commercial register under A 120020. Lt. Published on February 7, 2008, the personally liable partners are Meinen & Kahmann limited liability company (HR B 120014) and Georg Bach, Edewecht. Michael März is the managing director of the GmbH.

history

The company was founded in Edewecht in 1908 by the farmer and master butcher Fritz Meinen . In 1949 the company introduced the first black tin can for sausages. In 1973 it produced sausages with 100% beef as a separate product line for the first time . The distribution of the product range takes place, apart from a factory sales , mostly on the food retail sector . In 2006 around 400 people were employed here.

Products

In addition to a single organic line, an extensive range of conventional raw materials is produced:

Small crackers
3-minute pot
Mini Wini
German
Trueman's - American Style Hot Dog
Bratmaxe
Trueman's Chicken

Pork knuckle meat in aspic
CurryKing
Peat cutter
Wies'n host
KohlKönig
Sausage lunch
Wurstmaxe
Grillmaxe

The Bio-Maxe word mark was also transferred to Meica in the first quarter of 2006 after it had previously been held by a competitor in southern Germany.

According to the company, several million sausages are made every week.

Since the BSE crisis, the company has been producing organic poultry sausage, organic ready-made meals (with and without meat), organic sausages, organic refrigerated products and organic vegetarian sausages in accordance with the EC organic regulation under the name Bio-Krusenhof . No information is published about the origin of the meat used here.

During the later nitrofen crisis, around 80,000 units of organic poultry products were withdrawn after laboratory samples showed a false positive .

marketing

1991 Meica makes the sausage ( Pahnke Markenmacherei agency )
1993 Deutschländer ( Pahnke Markenmacherei Agency )

Others

When the taz asked about the social and ecological conditions of their production, the company responded with the statement that they generally do not answer any inquiries about the products from the press or consumer organizations.
Apart from nutritional information, the company does not provide any information on the origin and processing of the raw materials used, quality assurance measures and corporate responsibility on its website .
In 2014 the Federal Cartel Office imposed a three-digit million fine on 21 sausage companies, including Meica Ammerländische Fleischwarenfabrik Fritz Meinen GmbH & Co. KG, Edewecht, for illegal price fixing.