Dairy Association for East Frisia
| Dairy Association for East Frisia | |
|---|---|
| legal form | eGmbH |
| founding | 1920 |
| resolution | 1993 |
| Reason for dissolution | Merger to form MZO |
| Seat | Leer (East Frisia) |
| Branch | Dairy products |
The Dairy Association for Ostfriesland eGmbH (MVO) was a cooperative-based dairy and a company for the manufacture and sale of dairy products . The MVO was one of the largest sales centers for dairy products in northern Germany.
history
In 1920 the dairy association was founded by 45 regional dairies to ensure sales of the seasonally fluctuating milk volume. The milk delivery of the around 18,000 delivering dairy farms was in some cases five times higher in spring than in winter. On June 1, 1921, the newly built facilities on Großstrasse near the train station in Leer, which also included a cold store for 1,500 tons of butter, began operating. In addition to the production of butter (trade name: Ostfriesen-Butter ) and permanent milk (trade name: SATRO permanent milk ), other pillars such as the production of powdered milk in the Leda dry milk plant have been added over the years. In the 1960s, the company in Leer was expanded and modernized - around 175,000 tons of milk were processed annually. The production surpluses ( Butterberg , Milchsee), which grew from the end of the 1970s , led to Europe-wide milk quotas from 1984 onwards . These had an unfavorable effect on milk deliveries and worsened the economic situation of the MVO. In 1986 the turnover was still 425 million marks.
In 1987 they merged with the Oldenburg Butter and Egg Central Cooperative to form the Oldenburg-Osnabrück-Ostfriesland Dairy Center (MZO). The production facility in Leer was closed in 1992 and the MZO merged on January 1, 1999 with Hansano Milchhof Niedersachsen , Nordmilch eG Zeven and Bremerland-Nordheide Molkerei eG to form Nordmilch eG .
The former company premises are now being converted into a residential area. Parts of the historic old buildings such as the administration building have been preserved.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Diederich Hahn From penny item to billion dollar item: 100 years of dairy farming in Germany, 2nd edition, Verlag Th. Mann, Hildesheim, 1972, p. 136.
- ^ Albert Niemann: Agriculture of Lower Saxony, 1914-1964 , Albrecht-Thaer-Gesellschaft, 1964, p. 399.
- ↑ Sleeping with the window open was impossible , Ostfriesen-Zeitung , October 7, 2008.
- ↑ From the MZO site to Radsan Park at radsan-park.de