Ramseier Suisse
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2005 (merger) |
| Seat | Sursee , Switzerland |
| management | Christian Consoni ( CEO ) Urs Feuz ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | 230 (2017) |
| sales | 149.5 million CHF (2017) |
| Branch | beverages |
| Website | www.ramseier-suisse.ch |
| As of April 4, 2018 | |
The Ramseier Suisse AG (until 2007 Unidrink AG ), headquartered in Sursee is a Swiss beverage manufacturer and one of Switzerland's largest breweries . The company, which is part of the fenaco group, produces apple juice , apple spritzer , fruit juices and cider under the Ramseier brand , as well as lemonades , soft drinks and mineral water under the Sinalco , Elmer Citro and Elmer Mineral brands . The company also producesOwn brands for the Swiss retail trade and beverages on behalf of large international corporations . Ramseier Suisse has production sites in Sursee, Hochdorf , Kiesen and Elm .
history
The company emerged in 2005 under the name Unidrink AG with headquarters in Hitzkirch from the merger between Pomdor AG, which belongs to fenaco, and the public company Granador AG . The result was one of the largest producers in the Swiss beverage market with around 280 employees and a turnover of 157.5 million Swiss francs. In 2008 Unidrink AG was renamed Ramseier Suisse AG and the headquarters moved from Hitzkirch to Oberkirch. Today the headquarters are in Sursee. The roots of the individual brands go back to the beginning of the 20th century.
Ramseier
The Ramseier brand goes back to the Ramsei Emmental fruit wine cooperative founded in 1910 . In 1977 the four Bern cider factories , Ramsei , Kiesen and Münsingen, merged with VLG Herzogenbuchsee to form Pomdor AG , VLG Herzogenbuchsee being the main shareholder with 51%. Several companies from different parts of German-speaking Switzerland later joined the Pomdor. In 1991 Pomdor took over the Bernese large cider factory in Worb .
Sinalco
In 1900 the Lippe merchant and beverage specialist Franz Hartmann approached the naturopath Friedrich Eduard Bilz . He traveled to Oberlößnitz with the recipe for a lime extract . Bilz liked the idea because, in his opinion, the mineral salts and fruit acids contained in fruit are beneficial to health and the fruit sugar transfers its energy directly to the blood. Bilz and Hartmann developed a natural fruit drink from tropical fruits and local fruits, the Bilz-Limetta , which was called Bilz-Brause from May 1902 .
In 1902 a major advertising campaign was started with the success that the first international, non-alcoholic beverage brand of European origin was established. There were also imitators quickly. Around 1905 there were business disagreements between the partners, and from then on Franz Hartmann decided to look for a new name for the Bilz-Brause . A competition brought out the name Sinalco (from Latin sine alcohole , "without alcohol").
In 1991, after several changes of ownership, the brand came into the possession of the Swiss Feldschlösschen Group. In 1997, the company sold the international trademark rights to the German Hövelmann Group, which had already acquired the German trademark rights in 1994. The trademark rights for Switzerland and Liechtenstein remained with Feldschlösschen. In 2002, this company sold the Swiss brand Sinalco to Pomdor AG. From 2005 onwards, other flavors were added to the original Sinalco version .
Elmer Citro / Elmer Mineral
The brands Elmer Citro and Elmer Mineral (1973–2002 Fontessa Elm ) go back to the mineral water first bottled in 1925 by Oskar Schärli in the alpine St. Martin's springs. In 1927 he created a lemon drink , which from then on was sold under the name Elmer Citro . Elmag Glarus Mineralquellen Elm was founded in 1929 for bottling and sales . This was renamed Mineralquellen Elm AG in the 1970s after it was taken over by the Haldengut brewery in 1971 . After the Feldschlösschen brewery had already acquired a stake in Mineralquellen Elm AG in 1973, it took it over completely in 1983. In 1999 Feldschlösschen sold Mineralquellen Elm AG to Pomdor AG. In 2002 the mineral water marketed under the name Fontessa Elm since 1973 was renamed again to Elmer Mineral .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry of Ramseier Suisse AG in the commercial register of the Canton of Lucerne ( 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.
- ↑ More production despite mini fruit harvest In: schweizerbauer.ch , April 4, 2018, accessed on April 4, 2018.
- ↑ "Fusion on the Beverage Market" ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2005 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. , Der Bund , February 16, 2005
- ↑ Unidrink, media release of March 4, 2008 ( 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; 44 kB)
- ↑ Convince through performance. (PDF; 4 MB. Pp. 32–34) The history of the merger of the agricultural cooperative associations in Switzerland. In: fenaco.com. 2015, accessed January 19, 2020 .
- ↑ In Kiesen apples have been turned into cider for 100 years In: bernerzeitung.ch , September 6, 2012, accessed on March 20, 2018.
- ↑ Friedrich Eduard Bilz (1842–1922)
- ↑ Feldschlösschen, media release of June 18, 2002: Pomdor takes over Sinalco. ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2013 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.
- ↑ sinalco.ch / Ramseier Suisse - The history of Sinalco ( 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.
- ↑ Entry of Mineralquellen Elm AG in the commercial register of the canton of Glarus ( 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.
- ^ Popular Elmer water. ( 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: GlarusSüd Anzeiger , November 14, 2008.
