Savencia Fromage & Dairy
| Savencia SA
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| legal form | Société Anonyme |
| ISIN | FR0000120107 |
| founding | 1956 |
| Seat |
Viroflay France
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| management | Alex Bongrain |
| Number of employees | 19,301 (2013) |
| sales | 4.41 billion euros (2013) |
| Branch | Food manufacturer |
| Website | www.savencia-fromagedairy.com |
The Savencia SA (2015: Bongrain SA ) based in Viroflay in Paris is a family-owned, publicly traded French dairy industry group specializing in cheese . Savencia is the global market leader in this area, including in Germany, and number 2 in France itself after Lactalis .
Company history
Jean-Noël Bongrain, the founder of the group, took over a family-run cheese dairy in Lorraine in 1956 , which had previously only produced regional cheese specialties. Bongrain wanted to bring a completely new type of cheese onto the market, which would meet high taste requirements and should be marketable nationwide. After five years of development, he began with the production and consistently premium brand-emphasized sales of Caprice des Dieux 'Laune der Götter' - the first soft cheese brand . It already had the creamy consistency and oval shape, which is now widely used in soft cheese brands.
After conquering the French market within a few years and buying up numerous production companies, the company expanded to Germany in 1962, Belgium in 1969, Austria, Switzerland and the USA in 1972. In 1971 the merger with Fromagerie Gérard took place. From 1975 the non-European commitments were strengthened and companies in Brazil, the USA, Spain and Australia were taken over. In the 1990s there was a further expansion in Latin America and Central Europe (including cooperation with the Swiss market leader Emmi since 1994 ). Bongrain SA also entered the Eastern European market, where it has been the market leader through over a dozen company takeovers since 1993. At the end of the 1990s there were further engagements in Morocco and Egypt as well as India and China.
In 1992 the operational business of Compagnie Laitière Européenne (CLE; brands: Cœur de Lion and others) was taken over. The Bongrain Group has also been active in exclusive catering since 1989 .
In March 2015, the Bongrain Group renamed itself to the internationally easier to pronounce name Savencia Fromage & Dairy ; the parent company Groupe Soparind Bongrain is now called Groupe Savencia Saveurs & Spécialités .
In October 2017, Savencia agreed to take over 51% of the dairy group Belebey (Belebeevski Molochny Kombinat), a manufacturer and wholesaler of hard cheese and other dairy products based in Belebei , which is one of the ten largest Russian cheese manufacturers. The Bashkir Agriculture Minister Ernst Isajew previously held a controlling stake in the seller Intel Ko, part of the Neral group of companies.
Corporate structure
The Savencia dairy group is a branch of the international food group Groupe Savencia Saveurs & Spécialités (until 2015 Groupe Soparind Bongrain ), while its second, fully family-owned branch, Savencia Gourmet (formerly Soparind Développement ), also operates in the areas of sausage products, fish products and confectionery is.
The Savencia group of companies includes over eighty companies worldwide with a total turnover of more than 3.35 billion euros (as of 2005). Today, Savencia is represented in 24 countries at around 100 locations and has more than 18,000 employees, including almost 15,000 in Europe.
In addition to the Wiesbaden- based marketing, product development and sales center Savencia Deutschland , the cheese manufacturer Edelweiss GmbH & Co. KG , Kempten im Allgäu (largest European Savencia location, formerly part of Unilever ) has been part of the Savencia dairy group in Germany . Savencia also holds shares in the German organic manufacturer Söbbeke . The initial minority stake in Söbbeke was increased to the majority in 2013 as planned. Since 1999 the group has also held shares in the Andechser dairy (one-third started in 1999, 24.8% has been held since 2007). By order of the Federal Cartel Office, all shares were returned to the Scheitz family on October 1, 2015 for reasons of competition.
The CEO of Savencia is Alex Bongrain , the son of the company's founder . The Bongrain family holds 58.5 percent of the capital of Savencia SA through a holding company.
Brands
Savencia has over 100 brands worldwide . Well-known brands of Savencia in Germany are Bresso , Caprice des Dieux , Chaumes , Etorki , Fol Epi , Géramont , Henri , Le Tartare , Rambol , Saint Albray and Saint Agur (both named after fictional saints).
When the Unilever plant in Kempten was purchased in 2003, the German brands Edelweiß , Ramee , Bresso and Milkana were also acquired . In 2010 the Unilever brand Brunch , which had been produced for this group for years in the same plant , was also taken over.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bongrain 2013 Annual Report, on www.bongrain.com ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2015 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. , accessed July 9, 2015
- ↑ New identity - Bongrain SA devient SAVENCIA ( 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. . Company news from March 16, 2015
- ^ Company website
- ^ French Savencia Fromage & Dairy takes control of Belebeevsky dairy plant
- ↑ Europeanization in the milk market: Arla comes to Germany, Bongrain takes over shares in Söbekke. A heart for organic, May 2013, accessed May 4, 2013 .
- ↑ Bongrain takes over the majority in Söbbeke organic dairy . In: Lebensmittelzeitung . August 12, 2013 ( Lebensmittelzeitung.net (Bezahlschranke)).
- ↑ Alfons Kifmann: Andechs Monastery: Bizarre trademark dispute divides Andechs. In: Wirtschaftswoche. June 9, 2012, accessed December 13, 2015 .
- ^ Blanche Mamer: Family owned again. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. October 5, 2015, accessed December 13, 2015 .
- ↑ Corporate governance. Savencia SA, accessed December 13, 2015 .
- ↑ 50 years of Bongrain Deutschland GmbH. In: HESSIAN ECONOMY. July 2015, p. 41 , accessed December 13, 2015 .
- ↑ Pending proceedings: Acquisition of the Brunch brand from Unilever. Finanznachrichten.de, March 19, 2010, accessed May 4, 2013 .
