Tican
Tican is a group of companies in the meat processing food industry with headquarters in Thisted in Denmark , several slaughterhouses and processing plants in Europe and trading companies in Germany and the People's Republic of China. The product range includes fresh and chilled pork, bacon , ready meals and other processed meat products.
Key figures
In the 2013/2014 financial year, Tican achieved a turnover of 5.2 billion Danish kroner with almost 2,300 employees , the majority of which was outside Denmark. 1.9 million pigs were slaughtered.
structure
The Tican group of which is guided Holding Tican A / S . This is wholly owned by the German Tönnies Holding .
The Tican Group consists of the following business areas:
- Direct Table Foods ( Bury St. Edmunds , Suffolk, United Kingdom)
- Pro-Pak Foods ( Malton , North Yorkshire, UK)
- Zakłady Mięsne Nove ( Nowe , Poland)
- Tican Foods ( Vejle , Denmark)
- Tican Chilled ( Walsall , West Midlands; Boston , Lincolnshire; Chippenham , Wiltshire; Exeter , South West; Winchester , Hampshire; all United Kingdom)
- Tican Fresh Meat (Thisted, Denmark)
history
Tican emerged from two local pig slaughterhouses, which were founded independently in 1931 in Thisted and Fjerritslev and merged in 1978.
In February 2015, Tican and the largest Danish meat company Danish Crown made their intention to merge public. However, the Danish competition authority prohibited the merger, whereupon the Tican amba cooperative with almost 180 members (as of mid-2015), until then the sole shareholder of the Tican Group, initially announced a framework agreement in early November 2015 for the majority of the shares to be taken over by the largest German pig slaughterer, Tönnies; In December 2015, an agreement was reached on the complete takeover with retroactive effect from October 1, 2015; the approval by the European Commission took place in February 2016.
Web links
- Tican International Website (Danish, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.tican.dk/om-tican/historie
- ↑ Jonas Lund & Nicolaj Vorre: Danish Crown og Tican går sammen i kæmpe fusion , February 24, 2015, on borsen.dk
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 22, 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.
- ↑ Tönnies is allowed to take over Tican ( memento of the original from April 5, 2016 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. . agrarheute.com, February 29, 2016
