Rotkäppchen-Mumm sparkling wine cellars

Rotkäppchen-Mumm Sektkellereien GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	January 16, 2002
Seat	Freyburg (Unstrut) , Germany
management	Christof Queisser, Chairman of the Management Board Frank Albers, managing director Mike Eberle, managing director
Number of employees	952 (2019)
sales	EUR 1.114 billion (2019)
Branch	Food industry
Website	www.rotkaeppchen-mumm.de

The Red Riding Hood Mumm champagne producers GmbH (short-RM) in Freyburg (Unstrut) is Germany's largest producer of sparkling wine and also produces wine and spirits such as brandy , blight and liqueur .

Group development

The Rotkäppchen-Mumm sparkling wine cellars were created on January 16, 2002 from the takeover of the sparkling wine brands Mumm , Jules Mumm and MM Extra from the Canadian Seagram Company Ltd. including the production sites in Eltville am Rhein and Hochheim am Main by Rotkäppchen Sektkellerei GmbH .

The Geldermann private sparkling wine cellar, which produces sparkling wine exclusively in traditional bottle fermentation , was taken over by Rotkäppchen-Mumm on January 27, 2003, and the Kloss & Foerster brand was purchased on December 21, 2005 - the name of the company that has been selling sparkling wine under the name Rotkäppchen since 1894 made - back. In 2006, Eckes Spirituosen & Wein GmbH, owned by the majority owners of Rotkäppchen, the Eckes-Chantré family, was sold to Rotkäppchen-Mumm, so that Nordbrand Nordhausen , too , since January 23, 1991 100% subsidiary of Eckes AG - belongs to the Rotkäppchen-Mumm sparkling wine cellars. Rotkäppchen-Mumm bought the Blanchet wine brand in November 2009 from Racke GmbH & Co. KG in Mainz .

In the summer of 2015, Rotkäppchen-Mumm took over Drinks & Food GmbH with its production site in Zahna and various liqueur brands, whose production is to be discontinued, via its spirits subsidiary Nordbrand . In November 2015, the purchase of the Italian aperitif brand Sprizzero De Martin was announced.

58 percent of the group today belongs to the Eckes-Chantré family, 42 percent to the shareholders Gunter Heise (spokesman for the management until 2013, today chairman of the advisory board), Jutta Polomski (member of the management until 2007), Lutz Lange and Ulrich Wiegel, who run the company In 1993, as part of a management buy-out, together with Harald Eckes-Chantré and his daughters Petra Roller and Christina Oelbermann from the Treuhandanstalt .

Chef de Cave is the oenologist and beverage technologist Udo Gruber, who studied at Geisenheim University .

Following the takeover of the Italian Prosecco manufacturer Ruggeri in Valdobbiadene in 2017, the takeover of the traditional Bremen company Eggers & Franke was announced on March 9, 2018 .

Locations

By taking over the various companies, Rotkäppchen-Mumm now has locations in Saxony-Anhalt, Hesse, Thuringia, Baden-Württemberg, Bremen and in Veneto (Italy).

Production site	company	Brands
Freyburg (Unstrut)	Rotkäppchen Sektkellerei GmbH	Rotkäppchen sparkling wine Mocca Perle Rotkäppchen quality wine
Eltville on the Rhine	Matheus Müller Sektkellereien GmbH	Mumm, MM Extra
Eltville on the Rhine	Blanchet GmbH	Blanchet
Eltville on the Rhine	Chantré & Cie. GmbH	Chantré Collection de Chantré
Hochheim am Main	Godefroy H. von Mumm & Co. Sektkellereien GmbH	Mumm champagne Jules Mumm
Nordhausen am Harz	Real Nordhäuser Spirituosen GmbH	Real Nordhäuser Eckes Edelkirsch Mariacron Zinn 40
Nordhausen am Harz	Nordbrand Nordhausen GmbH	Goldbrand Goldkrone Goldene Aue Nordgold
Breisach on the Rhine	Geldermann Privatsektkellerei GmbH	Geldermann

Remarks

1. ↑ The Blanchet brand range focuses on French wines
2. ↑ Introduced by Ludwig Eckes in 1953 and named after the maiden name of his wife Marianne Chantré
3. ↑ First distributed in 1931 by the Peter Eckes distillery in Nieder-Olm, founded in 1857
4. ↑ emerged from the former monastery distillery in Oppenheim

Total sales and total sales

In 2019 the company had total sales of 310.4 million bottles. This corresponds to a market share of 51.6% in the German sparkling wine market. Divided into the categories, this means sales of 193.4 million bottles of sparkling wine and Co., 62.7 million bottles of spirits and 54.3 million bottles of wine. The total turnover in 2019 was 1.114 billion euros.

Area	paragraph
Sparkling wine and Co.	193.4 million bottles
Wine	054.3 million Bottles
spirits	062.7 million Bottles

Remarks

1. ↑ Sparkling wine and wine are standardized to 0.75 liter bottles

literature

• Ralf Kahmann: A tingling story. The Rotkäppchen Sektkellerei 1856–2006. Rotkäppchen-Mumm Sektkellereien GmbH, Freyburg / Unstrut 2006, ISBN 3-00-018731-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Little Red Riding Hood swallows Blanchet. In: Handelsblatt of October 23, 2009
2. ↑ Swallowed: Freshfields and Neussel & Martin accompany Blanchet takeover. JUVE.de of October 27, 2009
3. ↑ Little Red Riding Hood needs something harder. In: Handelsblatt.de. Handelsblatt, July 7, 2015, accessed on February 10, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Rotkäppchen-Mumm takes over Sprizzerò De Martin. In: Lebensmittelpraxis.de. Food Practice, November 4, 2015, accessed February 10, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Rotkäppchen Sektkellerei: Press release of July 17, 2007 (PDF, 9 kB) ( Memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Rotkäppchen-Mumm Sektkellereien: Press kit from April 2nd, 2019 (zip, 152 kB)  ( 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.