OSI group
| OSI group
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| legal form | LLC |
| founding | 1909 |
| Seat |
Aurora , Illinois , United States
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| management | Sheldon Lavin (Chairman & CEO) |
| sales | 6.1 billion US dollars (estimate) |
| Website | www.osigroup.com |
| As of December 31, 2014 | |
The OSI Group is an international network of companies and production sites in the food industry with headquarters in Aurora (Illinois) . Chairman and CEO is Sheldon Lavin.
OSI is a major supplier of meat products to the McDonald’s group in 75 countries .
According to its own information, the group of companies employed around 19,000 people in 25 countries worldwide in 50 companies with 77 production facilities. Its business activities in more than 85 nations achieved around 2.3 billion US dollars in sales over the same period . By 2014 the company was able to increase sales to 6.1 billion US dollars.
OSI was founded in 1909 by Otto Kolschowsky, of German descent, as a small family company in Chicago . In 1917 it expanded its activities to wholesale meat products and was finally renamed Otto & Sons in 1928 . OSI started supplying McDonald's first branch in Chicago, Illinois in 1955, renamed OS Industries in 1975 and expanded its operations to include Europe, Asia and Australia until the 1990s.
The OSI Group now supplies products and services to 85% of McDonald's restaurants in over 75 countries and is also the supplier of the Yum! Brands ( KFC , Pizza Hut , Taco Bell ). The group of companies is thus a striking example of the increasing internationalization of the flow of goods in the international food business.
The group operates 13 production sites in Western Europe and, according to its own information, supplies 11 markets, in Central and Eastern Europe 7 production sites and 19 markets.
In Germany, the group is active as OSI International Holding GmbH under the divisions OSI Food Solutions Germany (formerly Esca Food Solutions, Esca GmbH & Co. KG) and FOODWORKS in Günzburg . German production sites can be found in Günzburg, Bad Iburg and Duisburg in Bavaria .
In addition to McDonald's, the company also supplies German retailers under several private labels.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Forbes: America's Largest Private Companies (English)
- ^ Jörg Rohleder and Joachim Hirzel: The McDonalds story in Focus 22/2006