Pfalzmarkt
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| legal form | cooperative |
| founding | 1985 |
| Seat | Mother city |
| management | Reinhard Oerther, Hans-Jörg Friedrich |
| Number of employees | 120 |
| sales | 191.4 million euros (2015) |
| Website | www.pfalzmarkt.de |
The Pfalzmarkt (Pfalzmarkt für Obst und Gemüse eG) is a registered cooperative under German cooperative law and is considered a producer organization for fruit and vegetables according to EC Regulation (EC) 2002/96. More than 250,000 tons of fruit and vegetables are produced each year on the cultivation area of the cooperative members (over 15,000 hectares). Vegetables make up 95 percent of the total amount of goods, especially radishes, carrots, cauliflower, lamb's lettuce, colorful salads and leeks.
Company history
The "Pfalzmarkt für Obst und Gemüse eG" has its origins in the founding of the "Palatinate Vegetable Center, a working group of the Landau and Ludwigshafen a.Rh. Cooperative Associations. GmbH ”, Schifferstadt on October 14, 1926.
After dissolutions, foundings, amalgamations and mergers, the merger agreement of November 28, 1985 between "Obst- und Gemüsegroßmarkt Schifferstadt eG" and "Obst- und Gemüsegroßmarkt Südpfalz-Landau eG" merged the most important and largest closed growing area for outdoor vegetables, in order to be able to counter the strong competitive situation in the Palatinate, the increasing concentration in the food retail trade and the increasing competition from abroad.
In 1987 the new "Pfalzmarkt für Obst und Gemüse eG" moved to its new location in Mutterstadt, Neustadter Strasse, which now has a covered area of around 42,000 m 2 .
After the merger with the "Obst und Gemüsegroßmarkt Maxdorf-Lambsheim eG" in 2013, the "Pfalzmarkt für Obst und Gemüse eG" is one of the most important fruit and vegetable marketers in Europe. The product range of 120 different products with radishes, spring onions, carrots, lettuce, lamb's lettuce, cauliflower and kohlrabi as main crops corresponds to the requirements of the IFS standards.
structure
The "Pfalzmarkt für Obst und Gemüse eG" has locations in the Palatinate mother city (headquarters) as well as in Maxdorf and Hatzenbühl .
Subsidiaries are the Pfalz Fresh GmbH with a focus on the export business and the Gemüsegarten Rheinpfalz GmbH.
The producer group currently (as of 2018) comprises around 200 producers.
Data
- Business premises: 3
- Total factory area: 220,000 m²
- Warehouses: 55,000 m²
- Cold rooms: 23,000 m³ (including CA storage rooms) 6,000 m³
- Storage capacity: 9,000 pallets
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pfalzmarkt: Restructuring of the board of the Pfalzmarkt eG [1] accessed August 30, 2018
- ↑ Pfalzmarkt: Well equipped for the future , gabot.de, July 15, 2016
- ^ Pfalzmarkt: Cooperative. Retrieved August 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Pfalzmarkt eG: High goals for the anniversary year. Retrieved August 30, 2018 . Information from Fruchtnews