Altmühltaler mineral fountain

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Altmühltaler Mineralbrunnen GmbH & Co. KG
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1364
Seat Treuchtlingen , Germany
management Günther Kutschera, Alexander Pascher
Number of employees 750
sales EUR 7.6 million (2012)
Branch Beverage industry
Website www.altmuehltaler.de

The Altmühltaler Mineralbrunnen GmbH & Co. KG (formerly Schäff or Schaeff ) is a German group of companies of the beverage industry based in Treuchtlingen , a town in Middle Franconia district Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen .

history

The origin of the group is a Treuchtlinger brewery founded in 1364 . The brewery later went to the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach . In 1664 they introduced compulsory beer: all restaurants had to get their beer from this margravial brewery. In 1792 the margraviate passed into Prussian ownership and with it the brewery. The beer requirement was lifted and the brewery was sold in 1797 to the private citizen Johann Georg Feldner. The brewery remained in the possession of his family until 1897, which was now called Huss through marriage. After a sale, the company traded as Schäffbräu. In 1979 Schäffbräu acquired the north wing of the Treuchtlingen city palace , renovated it in 1984/85 and built a new west wing, into which a spa hotel and its own thermal spring moved.

In 1994 a new well was drilled in Baruth (in the Mark Brandenburg south of Berlin ) (commissioning 1995) and a bottling plant was built in which mainly mineral water and carbonated soft drinks are produced. Initially, one-way glass bottles were filled, and from the beginning of 2000 the five filling lines were gradually converted to PET bottles . In 2005 beer production was given up.

The mineral water and soft drinks manufacturer Rickertsen from Reinbek near Hamburg was sold to May-Werke in Erftstadt - Köttingen in 1998 .

Companies

The group is one of the largest German beverage manufacturers. It has no brands of its own, but bottles beer and mineral water exclusively for discounters under various brands . The products are produced at three locations in Germany, namely in Breuna , Baruth and Treuchtlingen.

The group of companies includes:

  • Altmühltaler Mineralbrunnen GmbH , Treuchtlingen (registry court Ansbach sheet HRB 3513, 2007 relocation to Baruth / Mark, there registry court Potsdam sheet HRB 20160, there converted into Altmühltaler Mineralbrunnen GmbH & Co. KG registry court Potsdam sheet HRA 4656 in 2008 ): Mineral water
  • Brandenburger Urstromquelle GmbH & Co.KG (registry court Potsdam sheet HRA 1339), Baruth: Mineral water
  • Vitaqua GmbH , Breuna (register court Kassel Blatt HRB 14126): Soft drinks and mineral water
  • BUQ Personal GmbH , Treuchtlingen (founded 2006, AG Ansbach HRB 4193): Personnel services for the other companies in the group, in particular temporary work
  • Heil- und Mineralquellen Germete GmbH from Warburg has also been part of the company since May 2016 .

Products

Bottlings:

  • Beer : including Altmühltaler wheat, Karlskrone beer-cola mix (ALDI)
  • Mineral water : including Altmühltaler (ALDI), Baruther Johannesbrunnen (NORMA), Elitess (PENNY), ​​Gut & Cheap Urstromquelle (EDEKA), surf Riedbach-Quelle (NORMA), Vitalitasia Urstromquelle (NETTO)

Controversy

In 1978, senior partner Friedrich Schäff was convicted of pounding beer with dye. In 1983 he mixed monobromoacetic acid into sour beer to keep it from completely overturning, and was fined 45,000 DM for this renewed violation by the Weißenburg District Court. The association for the promotion of medium-sized private breweries then excluded the then Schäff-Bräu GmbH & Co. KG in 1985 .

Due to increased radioactive pollution, the mineral water from the Riedbach spring, which belongs to the Schäff Group, was noticed by the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) in 2006 with a measured value of 539 micro Sv . The precautionary value for infants is 100 mikroSv. However, the dose value for adults was not exceeded.

In 2008 the Stiftung Warentest criticized the high acetaldehyde content (30.5 μg / l) in the waters of Baruther Johannesbrunnen and Brandenburger Urstromquelle (the self- imposed limit value for the mineral water industry is 10 μg / l).

In July 2008 the Schäff company Altmühltaler Mineralbrunnen GmbH had to recall Altmühltaler - Stilles Mineralwasser brand water due to the high level of germs .

The group is controversial because of its hindrance to trade union activities and the undermining of collective agreements through the intensive use of temporary workers. Specialists previously trained in the company, such as mechatronics technicians , warehouse logisticians , food technicians , etc., are dismissed after successfully completing their training and are newly hired in the company's own recruitment agency, BUQ Personnel.

On January 1, 2017, Altmühltaler took over the Flämingquelle in Wiesenburg from Christinenbrunnen, only to close it shortly afterwards with 30 employees. The employees signed an agreement with the new owner on January 4, 2017 and waived their claims. A day later the managing director announced the end of production. It is examined to what extent there are intentions of fraud, which could then also have criminal relevance.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our company , at www.altmuehltaler.de ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 28, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.altmuehltaler.de
  2. ↑ 2012 annual financial statements in the electronic Federal Gazette
  3. ↑ Treuchtlingen still has its beer , at www.nordbayern.de , accessed on April 23, 2016.
  4. ^ "Bierstadt" Treuchtlingen , on www.nordbayern.de , accessed on October 23, 2015.
  5. ^ Castle history ( Memento from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 50 kB), website of the city of Treuchtlingen.
  6. ↑ Heiner Sieger: Alliance for Upswing - Schäffbräu: Pumps in the Pampa , Focus , No. 29, 1996.
  7. ↑ The source gushes fresh ( Memento from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  8. ↑ Ranking list of the fruit juice / fruit nectar and fruit juice beverage manufacturers in the Federal Republic for the years 1997 and 1996 . In: Beverage Industry . No. 9 , 1998 ( sachon.de [PDF; 77 kB ; accessed on April 18, 2017]).
  9. ↑ According to the 2007 ranking by W&W Publishers Consultant, published in the specialist journal “Getränkeefachgroßhandel” (4/2007, p. 16) with an estimated sales of 920 million liters, ranked 4th after the Central German soft drinks belonging to the Schwarz Group (Lidl, Kaufland) , Hansa-Heemann and Nestlé Waters Several trumps in the water market ( Memento from February 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) and according to the 2013 ranking of the food-pleasure-restaurants union , according to estimated sales (950 million liters) and turnover (280 million euros) 3rd place in the 2013 industry report of the non-alcoholic beverage industry (AfG) ( Memento from November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). With a total output of the group (beer and mineral water; according to Dr. Kai Kelch) in 2007 of an estimated 8,500 million liters, the group was ranked 11th in the list of the largest German beverage manufacturers. Industry report 2007 of the beverage industry (AfG) ( Memento from August 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Brandenburger Urstromquelle
  11. ↑ Altmühltaler Mineralbrunnen ( Memento from February 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ Altmühltaler Mineralbrunnen GmbH, Treuchtlingen
  13. ↑ Katharina Engelhardt: Schäff Group takes over Germeta. In: New Westphalian . May 13, 2016. Retrieved April 18, 2017 .
  14. ↑ There too, world champion DER SPIEGEL No. 10/1985, p. 126
  15. ↑ Radioactive: Ingolstadt source exceeds limit value (netdoktor.de, August 30, 2006) ( Memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  16. ↑ Results table of the BfS study “Natural Radionuclides in Mineral Waters” (from July 7, 2006) ( Memento from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  17. ↑ Natural mineral water - bad marks for discounters . Stiftung Warentest , test 08/2008. July 24, 2008. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
  18. ↑ Mineral water recall (Handelsblatt, July 9, 2008)
  19. ↑ Inadmissible political termination HNA.de from August 16, 2010
  20. ↑ Sascha Adamek: Wiesenburg drinks location is threatened with final closure. In: rbb-online.de. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , March 1, 2017, accessed on April 18, 2017 .