Nordzucker

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Nordzucker AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1997
Seat Braunschweig , Lower Saxony
management Lars Gorissen, ( Chairman of the Management Board )
Jochen Johannes Juister, ( Chairman of the Supervisory Board )
Number of employees 3,234 (2017/18)
sales € 1.65 billion (2017/18)
Branch Food industry
Website www.nordzucker.de

Nordzucker AG headquarters in Braunschweig

The Nordzucker AG , headquartered in Braunschweig is a German sugar producer . According to its own information, the company is one of the leaders in its sector in Europe.

The production of sugar, liquid sugar as well as refined sugar, powdered sugar, lump sugar and gelling sugar, teas and flavored sugars for the household sector are the most important business areas of Nordzucker AG. Nordzucker also produces bioethanol and animal feed from sugar beet. The total production volume was more than 3 million tons of sugar.

In the 2019/20 financial year, Nordzucker generated a loss of 15 million euros.

history

Nordzucker AG was created in 1997 from the merger of Braunschweiger Zuckerverbund Nord AG (ZVN) and Zucker-Aktiengesellschaft Uelzen-Braunschweig (ZAG) , based in Uelzen . In 2003 Union-Zucker AG Südhannover, based in Nordstemmen, was integrated into the group.

In March 2009, Nordic Sugar A / S (the former Danisco Sugar ) was acquired for 730 million euros , which has sugar factories in Denmark , Sweden , Finland and Lithuania . Between 1999 and 2003 Nordzucker expanded and acquired its current Chełmża and Opalenica plants in Poland and the Trenčianska Teplá plant in Slovakia.

The company's roots date back to 1838, when the first existing plant in the Nordzucker area was founded in Klein Wanzleben.

In February 2014, the company, together with its rival companies Südzucker and Pfeifer & Langen, was jointly fined by the Federal Cartel Office in the amount of 280 million euros for anti-competitive agreements . Numerous customers brought claims for damages.

On February 9, 2019, Nordzucker announced the takeover of 70 percent of the company shares in Mackay Sugar Limited (MSL), based in Mackay , the second largest sugar producer in Australia . MSL also has a 25 percent stake in Sugar Australia and New Zealand Sugar , a joint venture for sugar refining in Australia and New Zealand with Wilmar International .

Company profile and business areas

Locations

Nordic Sugar plants in Kèdainiai

Nordzucker AG's locations are mainly in Germany and Eastern and Northern Europe.

Location state Processing capacity / day
Claws Lower SaxonyLower Saxony Lower Saxony 11,000 tons of beets
Zuckerdorf Klein Wanzleben Saxony-AnhaltSaxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt 15,500 tons of beets
Nordstemmen Lower SaxonyLower Saxony Lower Saxony 17,000 tons of beets
Schladen Lower SaxonyLower Saxony Lower Saxony 10,500 tons of beets
Uelzen Lower SaxonyLower Saxony Lower Saxony 20,000 tons of beets

More sugar factories

Liquid sugar locations

Refineries

Other locations

The company also has sales offices in Riga ( Latvia ), Vilnius ( Lithuania ), Tallinn ( Estonia ), Reykjavík ( Iceland ), Oslo ( Norway ), Dublin ( Ireland ) and Athens ( Greece ) as well as an office in Brussels ( Belgium ).

Sugarpartners

The joint venture between Nordzucker and the Irish food company Greencore , which has existed since 2006 , was completely taken over by Nordzucker in October 2009. According to the company, it employs around 12,000 people and sells around 44,000 tonnes of sugar per year on the Irish market. This brings Sugarpartners to a market share of around 25 percent in Ireland.

Bioethanol production

In December 2007 the bioethanol plant of fuel 21 GmbH & Co. KG , a wholly owned Nordzucker subsidiary, went into operation. It is the first plant in Germany that produces bioethanol exclusively on the basis of sugar beet. Every year around 130,000 cubic meters of bioethanol are now produced in an annex plant in association with the Klein Wanzleben sugar factory. At the beginning of the 2014 financial year, fuel 21 was fully integrated into Nordzucker AG.

NP Sweet and SweetFamily

In December 2012, Nordzucker was the first manufacturer to market household sugar made from conventional sugar and non-calorie stevia sweetener . During production, the sugar obtained from sugar beet is mixed with steviol glycoside , which Nordzucker purchases from the Malaysian company Pure Circle . Since 2011, the two companies have operated the joint venture NP Sweet , which develops and markets products made with stevia. The new product, which is marketed under the umbrella brand SweetFamily , has the same sweetness and taste as conventional sugar, but at four times the price it contains only half as much energy (see: physiological calorific value ) as sugar obtained from sugar beet.

SweetGredients

Together with the dairy group Arla Foods was the SweetGredients GmbH & Co. KG in Nordstemmen founded. The pilot plant produced the sweetener tagatose from milk sugar . It was produced under patent protection for the American market. After three years, the project was ended due to a lack of sales and a high loss of business.

Corporate management

The current board is composed as follows:

  • Lars Gorissen (Chairman of the Board), since 2018, previously Board Member for Agriculture (2014-2018)
  • Axel Aumüller (Head of Production), since 2009
  • Erik Bertelsen (Board Member for Sales and Marketing), since 2017
  • Alexander Bott (Chief Financial Officer), since 2018

The Supervisory Board consists of 15 members, including 10 shareholder representatives and 5 employee representatives. The chairman of the supervisory board is Jochen Johannes Juister.

Shareholder structure

The shares in Nordzucker AG are mainly held by the two parent companies Nordzucker Holding AG (83.8%) and Union-Zucker Südhannover GmbH (11.1%). Only 5.1% of the shares are in the hands of direct shareholders. In contrast to its competitor Südzucker , Nordzucker is not listed on the stock exchange .

Subsidies

Nordzucker is one of the largest recipients of EU agricultural subsidies in Germany. Nordzucker receives annual direct payments in the tens of millions through subsidiaries .

Web links

Commons : Nordzucker  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Annual Report of Nordzucker AG 2017/18 . Retrieved September 11, 2018 (PDF).
  2. ↑ Nordzucker portfolio in the company presentation . Retrieved August 18, 2020
  3. ↑ a b 175 Years of Nordzucker - A Sugar Story , Braunschweig, 2013.
  4. ^ Drastic penalties for German sugar manufacturers because of cartel agreements . In: Handelsblatt , February 28, 2014.
  5. ↑ Bauer, Ehrmann and Zentis are suing sugar manufacturers . In: Manager Magazin , August 17, 2015.
  6. ↑ Nordzucker takes over majority at Mackay Sugar. In: topagrar.com . February 8, 2019, accessed February 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ About us: greencoregroup.ie.
  8. ↑ Braunschweiger Zeitung of October 28, 2009.
  9. ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of December 24, 2012, No. 301, page 10.
  10. ↑ Annual Report 2005/2006 , foreword by Ulrich Nöhle . Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  11. ↑ Board of Directors . Nordzucker, accessed on September 11, 2018.
  12. ↑ Supervisory Board . Nordzucker, accessed on September 11, 2018.
  13. ↑ Shareholder structure . Nordzucker, accessed on September 11, 2018.
  14. ↑ Help for large entrepreneurs. In: n-tv.de. June 10, 2009, accessed February 16, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Karl Doeleke: armaments factory in Lower Saxony will receive agricultural subsidies. In: HAZ.de (Hannoversche Allgemeine). May 11, 2010, accessed February 16, 2019 .