PHZ SM Lacpol
The PHZ SM Lacpol Sp. ( Przedsiębiorstwo Handlu Zagranicznego Spółdzielni Mleczarskich Lacpol Sp. W Warszawie ) is a milk processor in Poland and, with sales of around EUR 200 million of the ten largest dairy companies in the country. The company is based in Warsaw in the Masovian Voivodeship .
history
The company was founded in 1982 as a foreign trade company of Polish cooperative dairies and began operations in 1988 after the formerly sole Polish export company Polcoop lost its foreign trade monopoly . Initially, the Association of Polish Cooperative Dairies (today: Krajowy Związek Spółdzielni Mleczarskich ZR ) was the sole shareholder of Lacpol; later the shares were transferred to the individual cooperatives. The company has had up to 100 shareholders in its history, including the RSM Rolmlecz dairy, which is the company's largest shareholder with almost 30%.
With the possibility for these shareholder dairies to export their products under their own brands, which has existed for several years, the business model of Lacpol changed. In addition to the increasing processing of milk in its own production facilities and the provision of services for the shareholders, Lacpol is now also selling its own products on the Polish market. This was accompanied by a structural change in the range. In the past, the company produced almost exclusively dry products (particularly suitable for export), but today it is increasingly investing in production facilities for fresh products. Lacpol's best known brand is Mleczna Smaki Świata ( Milk Flavor of the World ).
When some of the Lacpol shareholders had financial difficulties in the early 1990s, Lacpol supported these companies with its own funds.
Meanwhile a successful supplier on the Polish market, Lacpol has increasingly become a competitor for its own shareholders in recent years. Large Polish dairies ( Mlekpol , Polmlek , Mlekovita ) are therefore trying to increase their shares in Lacpol in order to increase their influence on corporate management. In 2008 Mlekpol took over RSM Rolmlecz, the largest shareholder in Lacpol.
It exports to many European countries, and since 2009 also to Russia, the Balkans, Algeria and Yemen. The main export products are milk powder and cheese curds .
In summer 2006 the German Nordmilch AG (today: Deutsches Milchkontor ) announced a collaboration with the Lacpol subsidiary Proszkownia Mleka in Piotrków Kujawski . A new plant is to be built together, the products of which will later be managed by Nordmilch. The new plant for the production of semi-hard cheeses such as Gouda , Edam and Tilsiter in blocks of 3 kg and 15 kg was to be designed for an annual capacity of 20,000 tons.
The managing director of Lacpol is Kazimierz Łoś.
Production facilities
Lacpol has nine production sites in Piotrkow Kujawski ( Proszkownia MLEKA ) Murowana Goślina ( Zakład Przetwórczego Kazeiny ) Wolsztyn ( Zakład Przetwórstwa MLEKA MLECZ ) Łaszczów (cheese and Mozarellaproduktion) Kobylnica (production of fresh food such as dried products) Zalesie (hard cheese -, kefir and buttermilk production), Tarnów ( Mlektar SA , production and trading company), Toruń (cream cheese production) and Płońsk (production and trading company).
A freezing plant is operated in Gdynia ( Lacpol Gdynia ). The company also owns the Witoldówka Guest House in Krynica-Zdrój and the Uśmiech Hotel .
Przegląd Mleczarski
Lacpol publishes one of the oldest specialist magazines in Poland. The monthly title Przegląd Mleczarski has been published since 1896 and, with a print run of 1,000, is aimed at the milk processing industry in Poland.
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to a ranking of the Polish trade journal Forum Mleczarskie , accessed on July 30, 2011
- ↑ a b according to Denis IF Lucey, University College Cork, A study of the dairy industry in Poland and other Central European countries ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 234 kB) , p. 23f. from April 1992 (in English)
- ↑ according to Edward Jesse from the Babcock Institute of the University of Wisconsin, The Dairy Industry of Poland ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Page 8 (in English) there are only "more than 50 shareholders", as of 2005
- ↑ a b according to MG, Certain winner of dairy sector in Pb.pl from January 15, 2008 (in English)
- ↑ according to Article Leading Dairy Products for the Market ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Industryeurope.net , accessed July 31, 2011 (in English)
- ↑ according to Article Mlekpol becomes regional giant following acquisition ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in WarsawBusinessJournal of July 29, 2008 (in English)
- ↑ according to Article Nordmilch bygger osteri i Poland - June 17, 2006 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at LebensmittelZeitung.net from June 8, 2006
