United wholesale markets for fruit and vegetables Rheinhessen

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United wholesale markets for fruit and vegetables Rheinhessen

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legal form registered cooperative
founding 1967
Seat Ingelheim am Rhein , Germany
GermanyGermany 
management Steffen Lang, managing director

Gerhard Gaul, CEO Frank Bockius, Deputy CEO

Number of employees approx. 70 (2018)
sales € 11.9 million (2012)
Website www.vog.de

The United Wholesalers for Fruit and Vegetables Rheinhessen , VOG Ingelheim for short, is a fruit and vegetable trading company and Europe's largest marketing organization for sour cherries . The company is headquartered in Ingelheim am Rhein .

Agricultural environment

Rheinhessen is one of the most important fruit and wine-growing regions in Germany. The region in the northern part of the Upper Rhine Rift is protected by the surrounding low mountain range . Due to its location in the lee of Hunsrück , Taunus , Odenwald and North Palatinate Bergland , Rheinhessen is one of the warmest and driest areas in Germany. There is a particularly favorable, temperate climate with little rain, a lot of sun and high average temperatures.

This is why cherries, plums , apples , mirabelle plums , pears and berries are grown in the Rhine Valley and the neighboring hill country . There is also an important cultivation of white asparagus here .

Collection quantities

In 2013 around 18,000 tons of fruit and asparagus were marketed. This generated a turnover of 14.5 million euros.

On a long-term average, the following quantities are recorded and marketed:

  • Berries 500 German
  • Vegetable asparagus 2,700 German

(dt = decitonne = one tenth of a ton = 100 kg)

Finishing

In 2004 VOG invested in a stone fruit harvester. The investment in a four-lane stone fruit sorting system was completed in the 2012 financial year. The available space was expanded in the same year by a courtyard roof. In the 2013 stone fruit season, a second stone fruit packaging line was put into operation in Ingelheim together with the cooperation partner BayWa to pack sweet cherries, mirabelle plums and plums according to customer requirements, especially in the food retail sector. With this, premium products are carefully placed in the “convenience food” pack.

The storage in CA and ULO quality (CA = Controlled Atmosphere , ULO = Ultra Low Oxygen) enables an extension of the period for the transport to / from the dealer up to the delivery to the end user. The modern warehouses allow the storage of up to 8,500 t of pome fruit . A special feature is that sour cherries can be stored for several weeks. This is made possible by the large chiller capacity in 10 cold rooms. Here the sour cherries can be cooled down by 34 Kelvin (from + 35 ° C to around 1 ° C) within 48 hours during the main harvest time.

Holdings

VOG Ingelheim has a stake in Obst vom Bodensee Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Wir über uns , www.vog.de, accessed on June 15, 2014.
  2. United wholesale markets for fruit and vegetables in Ingelheim reduced staff
  3. a b 2012 annual financial statements of the United Wholesalers' Market for Fruit and Vegetables Rheinhessen registered cooperative, www.bundesanzeiger.de, accessed on June 15, 2014.
  4. own information
  5. "Schüttelprojekt" the SLVA Oppenheim
  6. VOG with major losses Fruit and asparagus volumes decreased by 32 percent in 2012, General Assembly of the United Wholesalers for Fruit and Vegetables Rheinhessen eG (VOG)