Rügen fish
| Rügen Fisch AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | AG |
| Seat | Sassnitz |
| Number of employees | 850 |
| sales | 140 million euros (2015) |
| Website | www.ruegenfisch.de |
The Rügenfisch AG is the largest German manufacturer of canned fish . He produced in Sassnitz , Lübeck-Schlutup , Rostock and Kretinga (Lithuania) under the " Hawesta ", "Rügenfisch", "complaints crown", "Lysell", "Baltic Fish" and "Saßnitzfisch" as well as for private labels . In the 2015 financial year, Rügen Fisch AG achieved group sales of around EUR 140 million with around 850 employees.
history
The group of companies goes back to the VEB Ostseefischerei Mecklenburg , founded in Sassnitz in 1949 , which still had its own fishing fleet (see also Rostock Fish Combine ). In 1951 a fish processing factory was built. Renamed several times, the state-owned company became Germany's largest fish smokehouse in the 1950s. From 1956, canned glass was produced. 1978, the company was now called VEB Fischwerk Sassnitz , the fish processing company in Lauterbach was attached to it.
After the political change in the GDR , this base of former fish farms on the Baltic Sea became Rügen Fisch GmbH (the Rostock fishing combine was divided into five companies; one of them - Neue Ostseefisch GmbH - was taken over by Neue Rügen Fisch GmbH Sassnitz, which later became renamed). Klaus Peper, director of operations at VEB Fischwerk only since 1989, obtained approval from the Treuhandanstalt to continue operating , as he was able to negotiate orders for the production of private labels with Hawesta in Lübeck . In 1993, the Treuhand initially sold the company to a Berlin investor ( EFHA-Werke Fleischwarenfabrik Faupel & Haake) who, however, filed for bankruptcy and was unable to raise the purchase price. Another investor ( Walter Fürst GmbH & Co , Managing Director Peter Küth), who speculated on real estate, filed for bankruptcy in 1998. Its Berlin insolvency administrator, Dr. Schröder, sold the Rügen fish shares in 1999 to Klaus Peper, Thies Pickenpack (from the family who owned the Lüneburg fish processor Pickenpack ) and the Hamburg lawyer Berthold Brinkmann. They had a completely new factory built, which went into operation in 2001. In 2007 Rügen Fisch changed its name to a stock corporation . Hawesta was taken over in 2009 and Lysell in 2011, making Rügen Fisch the largest German canned fish manufacturer. At the end of 2013, Peper retired from the management, Brinkmann's son Tobias took over Peper’s shares in autumn 2015.
In December 2015, the remaining shareholder families Brinkmann and Pickenpack sold 51% of the shares in the group to the Asian fish company Thai Union ; the transaction was completed at the end of January 2016 following antitrust approval. The world market leader in canned tuna, previously only represented with a small share in Germany by an offshoot of its subsidiary John West , suddenly became the German market leader for canned fish.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thais swallow Rügen fish . handelsblatt.de
- ↑ Company history of the EFHA-Werke , Landesarchiv Berlin
- ^ Rügen Fisch again privately . new-deutschland.de
- ↑ Change of leadership at RügenFisch: Peper withdraws. In: Kiel News . December 12, 2013, accessed September 27, 2019 .
- ^ Cartel office waves the sale of Rügen fish through . NDR.de - Nachrichten - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, January 26, 2016
- ↑ Fisheries: Thai company takes over majority of Rügen Fisch , Die Welt (online) / afp, February 2, 2016
Coordinates: 54 ° 30 ′ 29.5 ″ N , 13 ° 37 ′ 52.5 ″ E