Black Forest milk

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Schwarzwaldmilch GmbH Freiburg

logo
legal form GmbH
founding March 6, 1930
Seat Freiburg in Breisgau
management Andreas Schneider (Managing Director)
Number of employees 419
sales 195.4 million euros
Branch food industry
Website www.schwarzwaldmilch.de
As of December 31, 2018

The Schwarzwaldmilch (until December 2010 Breisgaumilch ) is a German group of dairy processing companies in cooperative ownership and based in Freiburg im Breisgau . In Freiburg the company u. a. Milk, butter, sour milk products, mixed milk drinks, desserts and spreads. Milk powder and various food additives are produced in Offenburg , which are used in the bakery, confectionery and spice industries and added to sports nutrition.

history

Former company logo

The oldest forerunners of Black Forest milk was the “Freiburg Milk Cooperative” founded in 1876, the “Freiburg Milk Farm” from 1916 and “Hildweins Milchvertrieb”. On March 6, 1930, these three companies were merged into "Breisgau Milchzentrale GmbH", whose main purpose was to supply the Freiburg population with dairy products. In 1930 around 9.2 million liters of milk were supplied to the company, and twenty years later 15 million liters of drinking milk and over 9 million liters of milk products were produced.

After the end of the Second World War, further cooperatives and processing companies in the south-west of Baden-Württemberg were gradually taken over. In 1961/62 the name was changed to “Breisgau-Milch”, and from 1969 a stylized cowbell was the company's trademark.

In 1981 "Breisgau-Milch" took over almost all of the shares in "Schwarzwaldmilch GmbH" in Offenburg, which was founded in 1932, but left both names and brands as the two parts of the corporate group.

In March 2010 the Breisgau-Milch label fraud was accused because the milk for the product "Black Forest Butter" and four other products came from the Allgäu and was also processed there. The products were advertised with the label "Our cows make the best Black Forest milk from fresh grasses and meadow herbs from the Black Forest highlands, which we process gently."

In December 2010 the "Breisgau-Milch" was renamed Black Forest milk , the trademark became the Bollenhut . Since then, the company has been divided into the two locations Freiburg (focus on dairy products) and Offenburg (focus on milk powder).

The newly founded subsidiary "Black Forest Nature GmbH" wants to bring oat milk to the market in the first quarter of 2020 .

Andreas Schneider has been the managing director since October 1, 2013.

The Schwarzwaldmilch group is also the main sponsor of SC Freiburg .

Structure and key figures

The Schwarzwaldmilch dairy in Freiburg

The Schwarzwaldmilch Group consists of the parent company Schwarzwaldmilch GmbH Freiburg and the subsidiary Schwarzwaldmilch GmbH Offenburg . Since January 1, 2015, MEV (Milcherzeugervereinigung Schwarzwaldmilch eG) has been a partner in Schwarzwaldmilch, the mouthpiece of the cooperative and representative of the producers' association. The Chairman of the Supervisory Board is Markus Kaiser.

As a cooperative, the milk-supplying farms are organized in the companies and are involved in decisions in the dairy through the supervisory boards.

The share capital of Schwarzwaldmilch GmbH Freiburg amounts to a good 10 million euros (as of December 2016).

More than 1,000 milk producers contributed to the annual turnover of 195.4 million euros in the 2018 financial year; Around 419 employees worked at the two locations, including 25 trainees. The amount of milk processed was 255.4 million kilograms.

Brands

  • "Schwarzwaldmilch" ( umbrella brand and green premium product line with Black Forest pasture milk products, the regional brand Jogi and Tresana)
  • "Schwarzwaldmilch Bio" ( Bioland certified organic range)
  • "Black Forest milk organic hay milk "
  • "Schwarzwaldmilch LAC lactose-free" (diverse lactose- free product range with additional lactose-free, fructose- free and gluten- free dairy products)
  • "Schwarzwaldmilch Breisgau quality brand" (regional, traditional quality range)

Web links

Commons : Schwarzwaldmilch (Freiburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Schwarzwaldmilch (Offenburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c About Schwarzwaldmilch - The cooperative company: facts and figures. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
  2. ^ Badische Zeitung: Label fraud: Black Forest butter comes from the Allgäu - economy (regional) - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  3. ^ Badische Zeitung: Breisgaumilch: Smeared - Comments - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ About Black Forest Milk. Retrieved July 24, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Gerd Lache: Groceries: Black Forest milk wants to grow with oat drinks. October 17, 2019, accessed October 18, 2019 .
  6. ^ Editor / Heinz Siebold: Schwarzwaldmilch Freiburg - Andreas Schneider is the new boss. In: bathe online. Baden Online , August 20, 2013, accessed July 24, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Main sponsor | Sc freiburg. Retrieved October 11, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Stefanie Senfter: Cooperative portraits - Schwarzwaldmilch faces the market. In: BWGV. BWGV , March 10, 2016, accessed on July 24, 2018 .

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