Metten meat products

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Metten Fleischwaren GmbH & Co. KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1902
Seat Finnentrop ( Sauerland )
management Tobias Metten (former partner), Ulrich Metten (former partner), Sascha Astorino (head of sales), Joachim Scheiter (head of finances), Hartmut Schmitt (head of operations)
Number of employees 300 (2019)
sales approx. 115 million euros (2019)
Branch food industry
Website www.metten.net
As of December 31, 2019

The Metten Fleischwaren GmbH & Co. KG is a medium sausage manufacturer based in Finnentrop in the Sauerland (Nordrhein-Westfalen). In addition to Metten Fleischwaren GmbH & Co. KG, the Metten Group also includes Biggetaler Fleischwaren GmbH.

history

The family business was founded in 1902 as a butcher's shop by Wilhelm Metten senior. founded in Finnentrop and is now run by Tobias Metten in the fourth generation together with his father Ulrich Metten.

Wilhelm Metten jun. took over the butcher's shop from his father in 1933 and began to expand the small butcher's shop into an industrial company. At that time, the Metten company was particularly well-known for its bone ham, which matured in a rock tunnel originally built for air raid protection purposes and took on a very special aroma. During the Second World War it was discovered that the rock tunnels behind the production building, which were blown up for air raid purposes, were ideal for storing ham, bacon and raw sausage. Due to the constant mountain temperature between 8 and 10 degrees Celsius, the goods even got a special aroma. The salt factory was moved to the mountain, where it has proven itself for 70 years. Until 2003, pigs were slaughtered in one of Europe's most modern slaughterhouses.

In the 1960s, Peter and Ulrich Metten, the third generation, joined the company. In 1990 Metten received approval as a European processing company for meat products (DE EV 356 EG) and started the first construction stage of the plant in the Frielentrop industrial area with meat cutting, raw sausage production and deep-freeze storage.

In 2008 the facilities were expanded and modernized, followed by relocation of production to the factory in Finnentrop- Frielentrop . Meat and sausage products are produced on 30,000 m². One focus of the investments was the renewal of the machine park, whereby about 30 percent less water and energy should be used. A combined heat and power plant was built in 2014.

The company has been running a factory outlet with lunch and a snack bar since 2011. In addition to the original products, B-goods items with small defects and special items are also offered.

Product range

Metten Fleischwaren has a range of over 100 products from the areas of aspic, raw sausage, roast and ham, boiled sausage and canned goods. The products are sold through food retailers, meat wholesalers and discount stores. The share of self-service products in total sales is around 75% (including canned food). 25% of the products are sold over the service counter. Export accounts for around 10% of sales.

"Big Sauerland" sausage 5x80g can

The company's best-known product is the "Big Sauerlander" sausage, which has been hand-made for over 50 years, Germany's most popular canned sausage (source: IRI, LEH Total> = 200sqm, sausages in glass and can (not refrigerated), sales in t, MAT Apr 2019 ). Over 10 million cans of "Big Sauerland" sausage with five 80 g sausages leave the factory in Finnentrop every year. Since 2015 the Metten Rostbratwurst has also been marketed under the umbrella brand “Dicke Sauerländer”. In addition, the Metten Group produces numerous refrigerated self-service items as own brands for the food retail sector.

Awards

  • "Landesehrenpreisisträger NRW 2019", the Landesehrenpreis is awarded to North Rhine-Westphalian food producers whose products are of above-average quality. The companies also have to meet a number of sustainability criteria. The quality criteria of the German Agricultural Society (DLG) serve as a benchmark .
    Former headquarters in Finnentrop opposite the train station
  • "DLG Prize for Long-Term Product Quality - Ham and Sausage 2019", the German Agricultural Society (DLG) awards the prize for long-term product quality to companies that have received DLG awards without interruption for many years.
  • "Big Sauerland" -bratwurst voted "Best Product of the Year 2019-2020" in an online consumer survey.
  • “Big Sauerland” sausage voted “Best Product of the Year 2015-2016”. In an online panel, around 3,600 participants rated 17 product categories. In the sausage category, Metten Fleischwaren was successful with the "Big Sauerland" sausage.
  • "Training certificate from the Federal Employment Agency":
    Today's factory building in the industrial area Frielentrop
    In 2014, Bettina Wolf awarded Metten Fleischwaren the training certificate from the Siegen Employment Agency for social commitment related to training.
  • Trainee seal “Excellent training company”: For the third time in a row, Metten received the seal “Excellent training company” (largest independent certification for company training in Germany) in 2017.

Federal Cartel Office fine

In July 2014, the Federal Cartel Office imposed a high six-figure fine on Metten for illegal price fixing (so-called sausage cartel). According to the Federal Cartel Office, numerous statements and documents show that there was a traditional “basic understanding” of regular agreement on demands for price increases. Concrete agreements were made between various sausage manufacturers to jointly enforce price increases for retailers. Most of the arrangements were made by telephone, be it through reciprocal calls or organized broadcasts. Due to the heterogeneity of the products (different types of sausage, different pack sizes, etc.), it was not possible to set specific individual prices so that price ranges for product groups (raw, scalded, cooked sausage and ham) were agreed. As a result, higher price demands could be enforced against the retail trade on the basis of the cartel agreement.

Web links

Commons : Metten Fleischwaren  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias Metten joins the company In: DerWesten from February 3, 2009
  2. ↑ Metten closes the pig slaughterhouse. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  3. ^ Company Metten from June 2008 completely in Frielentrop
  4. ↑ Combined heat and power plant: electricity and heat for personal use. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Metten opens new factory outlet. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Metten range - Metten meat products - the best of meat. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  7. ↑ 5 questions to ... Maike Neufeldt. In: Die THEMENmacher. July 4, 2017, accessed on February 11, 2020 (German).
  8. ^ Ministry of the Environment NRW: Landesehrenpreis NRW. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  9. ↑ DLG eV - DLG award for long-term product quality - ham and sausage. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Excellent Sauerland Rostbratwurst. July 4, 2019, accessed on February 11, 2020 (German).
  11. ↑ Thick Sauerland Bockwurst named 'Best Product of the Year'. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  12. ↑ ontavio GmbH / karriere-suedwestfalen.de: Employment agency awards Metten with a training certificate . Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  13. ↑ LokalPlus: Eleven apprentices start their careers at Metten - young talent for the company in Finnentrop. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Karpa, Joachim: Sausage manufacturer Metten has to pay a high six-figure fine. The West, July 15, 2014, accessed July 16, 2014 .
  15. ↑ Bundeskartellamt imposes fines on sausage manufacturers. In: press release. Bundeskartellamt, July 15, 2014, accessed on July 16, 2014 .