Südzucker

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Südzucker AG

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legal form Corporation
ISIN DE0007297004
founding 1988
Seat Mannheim , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Niels Pörksen (Chairman of the Management Board)
Hans-Jörg Gebhard ( Chairman of the Supervisory Board )
Number of employees 19,219
sales 6.75 billion euros (2018/19)
Branch food
Website www.suedzucker.de
As of February 28, 2019

The Südzucker AG , based in Mannheim is a German sugar producer. It is the largest sugar producer in the world and one of the largest food groups in Germany. The company employs around 19,200 people worldwide and is listed on the SDAX .

Südzucker achieved consolidated sales of around 6.75 (previous year: 6.98) billion euros in the 2018/19 financial year (March 1, 2018 to February 28, 2019). The operating business result was EUR 27 (previous year: 445) million. Südzucker AG is divided into the sugar , specialties , CropEnergies ( bioethanol ) and fruit segments.

history

Share over 1000 RM of the Süddeutsche Zucker-AG from March 1927
Former Groß-Gerau plant

Südzucker AG goes back to Süddeutsche-Zucker-AG, which emerged in 1926 from a merger of five regional sugar factories (Zuckerfabrik Frankenthal AG, Frankenthal; Zuckerfabrik Heilbronn AG, Heilbronn; Badische Gesellschaft für Zuckerfabrikation, Mannheim; Zuckerfabrik Offstein AG, Offstein; Zuckerfabrik Stuttgart AG, Stuttgart- Bad Cannstatt ). The official predecessor of Süddeutschen-Zucker-AG is the Frankenthal AG sugar factory.

During the Second World War, almost all of its production capacities were destroyed, and after the war the company lost its locations in the occupied territory of the Soviet Union through expropriation . In the 1950s, the remaining plants were rebuilt and expanded. In 1988 the company merged with Zuckerfabrik Franken GmbH from Ochsenfurt and the company was renamed Südzucker AG Mannheim / Ochsenfurt, based in Mannheim and each with a head office in Mannheim / Ochsenfurt. With the merger of these head offices in the extended building in Maximilianstrasse Mannheim at the turn of the year 2014/15, the company was renamed Südzucker AG.

The newly formed company expanded mainly through acquisitions across Europe:

  • 1989 Tirlemontoise refinery, Brussels / Belgium
  • 1989 Agrana -Beteiligungs-AG, Vienna / Austria
  • 1990 Acquisition of the East German sugar factories from the Treuhandanstalt
  • 1995 Schöller-Holding (was sold on to the Swiss Nestlé SA in 2001 )
  • 1996 Freiberger Lebensmittel GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin (producer of ready-made pizzas and pasta), majority shareholding
  • 2001 Saint Louis Sucre Paris / France (second largest sugar producer in France)

With the acquisition of individual sugar factories in Europe, particularly in Poland, since 1996, Südzucker has become by far the largest sugar producer in Europe. In 2005 5.2 million tonnes of sugar were produced (this corresponds to a share of the EU-25 sugar production of 21.8%).

In February 2014, the company - together with the rival companies Nordzucker and Pfeifer & Langen - was imposed a joint fine of 280 million euros by the Federal Cartel Office for alleged anti-competitive agreements .

Corporate governance

The chairman of the board is Niels Pörksen, the chairman of the supervisory board is Hans-Jörg Gebhard from Eppingen, who is also the chairman of the Association of Süddeutscher Zuckerrübenanbauer e. V. is. The total remuneration granted by Südzucker AG to the Management Board in the 2018/19 financial year amounted to 2.9 million euros.

Board
  • Niels Pörksen (Chairman)
  • Thomas Kirchberg
  • Thomas Koelbl
  • Johann Marihart (also Chairman of the Management Board of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG)

Locations

Südzucker AG only has factories under the name Südzucker in three European countries: in Germany, Poland and Moldova. A subsidiary was founded in Poland and Moldova: Südzucker Polska SA and Südzucker Moldova SA

After the Warburg site was closed in 2020, sugar beets from organic farming are now only processed into organic sugar in Rain (since 2019). This happens at the beginning of each campaign before the sugar beet from conventional agriculture is processed.

Germany

designation Location state founding Employee status source
Headquarters Mannheim Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg 1988 active
plant Waghausel Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg 1837 - closed in 1995
plant Straussfurt ThuringiaThuringia Thuringia 1871 - closed in 1996
plant Brottewitz BrandenburgBrandenburg Brandenburg 1872/73 - closed 2020
plant Wobble HesseHesse Hesse 1880/81 approx. 80 employees active
Plant
( sugar factory Warburg ) 		Warburg North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia 1882 - closed 2020
plant Obrigheim-Neuoffstein Rhineland-PalatinateRhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate 1883 approx. 300 employees active
plant Gross-Gerau HesseHesse Hesse 1883 - closed in 2008
plant regensburg BavariaBavaria Bavaria 1899 - closed in 2008
Plant with administration Ochsenfurt BavariaBavaria Bavaria 1951 approx. 330 employees active
plant Rain BavariaBavaria Bavaria 1957 approx. 240 employees active
plant Line BavariaBavaria Bavaria 1959 - closed 2001
plant Plattling BavariaBavaria Bavaria 1961 approx. 230 employees active
plant Offenau Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg 1971 approx. 200 employees active
plant Time Saxony-AnhaltSaxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt 1858, rebuilt in 1993 approx. 200 employees active
plant Oldis life ThuringiaThuringia Thuringia 1872 since 1990 museum work

Subsidiaries and investments (excerpt)

Sugar segment

Franken sugar factory, Ochsenfurt , October 1955
The now closed Groß-Gerau plant of Südzucker AG

Specialties segment

CropEnergies segment

  • CropEnergies AG, Mannheim (bioethanol production)
  • four production sites in Germany, Belgium, France and Great Britain

Fruit segment

  • Fruit preparations
  • Fruit juice concentrates
  • 39 production sites

Share and shareholders

The company's share capital is divided into around 204 million  shares . The majority of the shares are in permanent ownership by Süddeutsche Zuckerrübenverwertungs-Genossenschaft eG (SZVG) with a share of 57% and AGRANA Sugar, Strength and Fruit Holding AG from Austria with a share of around 10%. The remaining 33% are considered to be free float .

Varia

Südzucker AG maintains in Oldisleben in the north of Thuringia , the sugar factory Oldisleben as a museum and as a technical monument . The factory was founded in 1872 and was in operation in almost unchanged technical condition until 1989. The museum can be visited after registration.

According to the daily newspaper Die Welt , the company receives around 1.8 million euros annually from agricultural subsidies under the European Union's common agricultural policy .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dr. Niels Poerksen. Südzucker AG, accessed on April 14, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Annual Report March 1, 2018 to February 28, 2019 ( Memento of May 28, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Tongas: Annual report ( Memento of July 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b Farmers want to save sugar factories. In: schweizerbauer.ch . May 9, 2019, accessed May 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Because of cartel agreements: Drastic penalties for German sugar manufacturers. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Südzucker AG, Mannheim, management report and annual financial statements of Südzucker AG as of February 28, 2019 (HGB). In: bundesanzeiger.de. June 11, 2019, accessed May 19, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Management Board> Company> Südzucker. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Tobias Chmura, Veronika Scheidl: First organic sugar from Bavaria: processing of organic beets begins. In: br.de . September 9, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Headquarters> Locations> Company> Südzucker. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  10. ^ Sugar factory Waghäusel - City wiki Karlsruhe. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  11. ^ Straussfurt administrative community. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  12. ^ Plant Brottewitz> Sugar factories in Germany> Locations> Company> Südzucker. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
  13. ^ Wabern plant> Sugar factories in Germany> Locations> Company> Südzucker. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Ralf Benner: A farewell with sadness. In: www.westfalen-blatt.de. December 29, 2019, accessed February 13, 2020 .
  15. ^ Warburg plant> Sugar factories in Germany> Locations> Company> Südzucker. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
  16. ^ Plant Offstein> Sugar factories in Germany> Locations> Company> Südzucker. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
  17. ↑ a b sugar factory on GG-Online. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  18. ↑ a b Südzucker closes sugar factories - jobs at risk. In: diepresse.com . Accessed on January 29, 2019 : "At that time, politics had urged the sugar industry to take six million tons of capacity from the European market"
  19. ^ Ochsenfurt plant> Sugar factories in Germany> Locations> Company> Südzucker. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
  20. ^ Plant Rain> Sugar factories in Germany> Locations> Company> Südzucker. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Zeil> Sugar factories> Company history> History> Company> Südzucker. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Plattling plant> Sugar factories in Germany> Locations> Company> Südzucker. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Offenau plant> Sugar factories in Germany> Locations> Company> Südzucker. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
  24. ^ Zeitz plant> Sugar factories in Germany> Locations> Company> Südzucker. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
  25. ^ Sugar factory Oldisleben - an industrial monument ( Memento from August 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  26. ↑ Key data> Share> Investor Relations> Südzucker. Retrieved December 18, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Investor structure> Share> Investor Relations> Südzucker. Retrieved December 18, 2018 .
  28. ↑ BaFin - Significant shares of voting rights according to Sections 33, 38 and 39 of the Securities Trading Act (WpHG). Retrieved May 2, 2019 .
  29. ↑ program. In: Open Monument Day. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  30. ↑ TIP 016: Oldisleben sugar factory. In: rottenplaces.de. March 2, 2016, accessed February 5, 2019 .
  31. ^ Agriculture: The quiet dying of German small farmers. welt.de, accessed on February 5, 2019 .

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Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '57.7 "  N , 8 ° 29' 5.6"  E