Vion NV
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | July 1, 2006 |
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Boxtel , Netherlands
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| management | Ronald Lotgerink (CEO), John Morssink (CFO) |
| Number of employees | 11,969 (average, with subcontractor employees) |
| sales | 5.1 billion euros |
| Branch | Food |
| Website | www.vionfoodgroup.com |
| As of December 31, 2017 | |
Vion N.V. also Vion Food is an international food producer with 29 production sites in the Netherlands and Germany as well as sales offices worldwide. The company's headquarters are in Boxtel in the south of the Netherlands ; the seat of the German company is in Buchloe . Until February 2005 the company operated as the Bestmeat Company.
Vion Food's sole shareholder, the Administratiekantoor SBT Foundation , is an asset manager who has issued depository receipts for its shares to NCB-Ontwikkeling, which acts as an investment fund on behalf of the ZLTO . The ZLTO is an association for entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector and has around 15,000 members in Noord-Brabant , Zeeland and the southern parts of Gelderland .
Business areas
With its four business areas Beef, Pork, Food Service and Retail, the company supplies pork and beef, as well as products made from them and meat alternatives on a plant basis to the food retail trade, the meat industry, the wholesale trade and the catering trade.
structure
Vion has a total of 29 production facilities in the Netherlands and Germany.
Locations in Germany
Vion has locations in Germany in Ahlen , Altenburg , Bad Bramstedt , Bamberg , Buchloe, Crailsheim , Emstek , Furth im Wald , Hilden , Landshut , Perleberg , Vilshofen , Germaringen , Waldkraiburg .
The locations in Lübeck (2006), Lüneburg (2006), Riedlingen (2017) and Zeven (2017) have now been closed .
With Vion Breeding and Livestock , Vion maintains a large German cattle trading agency.
The breeding and livestock locations are in Bad Bramstedt, Dalum , Duben , Einbeck , Hanover and Neumünster .
Locations in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands there are locations in Apeldoorn , Boxtel, Enschede , Groenlo , Scherpenzeel , Tilburg , Leeuwarden and Valkenswaard .
International locations
Vion has offices worldwide in China / Hong Kong , Denmark , France, Greece, Poland , Romania , Sweden , Switzerland , Singapore , Slovenia , Spain and the Czech Republic .
Brands
- De Groene Weg (“The Green Way”) for organic meat in the Netherlands. The brand is sold to butchers in the Netherlands and also supplies meat processors in Germany.
- Salomon Foodworld for hamburgers, main dishes and finger food for the out-of-home market.
- FVZ Convenience for schnitzel, poultry, minced meat, knuckles and vital.
- Under the Food Family brand for pork and beef.
- Gold beef for beef.
- The Schweingold brand for pork for the meat industry in Japan and Korea
- Hackplus for products made from meat combined with vegetable protein
- Weylander beef for beef in supermarkets in the Netherlands
- Good Farming Star for pork with the animal welfare label "Beter Leven" in the Netherlands
- Otto Nocker for meat and sausage products in Bavaria
- Robusto for dried Parma ham and Serrano ham
- BBQ star for pork products (spare ribs, porchetta, pulled pork) and beef products (flat iron steak, Côte de Boeuf, Ribeye and Picanha)
- ME-AT for meat substitutes on a plant basis
Criticism and incidents
At the beginning of 2007, the consumer protection organization Foodwatch filed a complaint against the company SNP, GePro of the PHW Group , which at the time belonged to Vion , the fertilizer dealer Beckmann and the veterinary offices of the districts of Diepholz, Emsland, Oldenburg and Vechta, because the companies were illegal trade in animal meal ( K3 material ) operate and the offices would provide assistance. Although this type of waste and the meat and bone meal produced from it are not allowed to enter the human food chain, Foodwatch found corresponding evidence. The investigations that were subsequently initiated showed that the flour was actually traded, but with the approval of the competent authorities and was therefore not a criminal offense. However, the permits themselves violated applicable laws. Since, from a legal point of view, aid only exists if the main offense is criminal, the investigations against both the companies and the offices were discontinued at the end of 2007. The approval practice of the authorities has been changed.
By two WDR reports of 17 and 27 January 2012 in the consignment Current hour came Vion Hilden in the public eye. The Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office investigated Vion Hilden and raided the plant. The Hilden plant was accused of relabeling beef from other European countries in order to sell it as German. However, the investigations into all suspects were closed in September 2012.
After information from the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Agriculture that there had been violations of the Animal Welfare Act in connection with slaughter in a slaughterhouse operated by Vion in Bad Bramstedt, the Kiel public prosecutor's office again investigated Vion. At the end of February 2014, customs and police searched the company premises and seized materials. The slaughterhouse then had to be closed for about five weeks.
In 2016, significant deficiencies in animal welfare and hygiene at the Landshut slaughterhouse became known. The Landshut slaughterhouse was in a construction phase, had been intensively checked and had been in close contact with the supervisory authorities. At no point was food safety in question. Vion then invited all parliamentary groups in the Bavarian state parliament to the Landshut slaughterhouse.
Also in 2016, a slaughterhouse in Lower Saxony was investigated in which meat was produced for the Vion Landjuwel brand. Although advertising brochures and the website advertised animal welfare, high quality and frequent inspections by neutral service providers, cruelty to animals was found by the company. The animals kept were injured and mutilated, and wounds were not treated. The neutral audit firms mentioned on the website had not existed for several years. Heinz Schweer, director of agriculture at Vion, admitted to NDR television that he did not know about the incidents until research by NDR television revealed the cruelty to animals, since, according to him, the quality control of the fattening farms lies with the farmers. End customers and buyers sharply criticized the condition of the animal husbandry and felt cheated by the misleading advertising.
In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands , a slaughterhouse in Groenlo in the province of Gelderland had to cease operations due to a large number of infections among its employees.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Company overview. vionfoodgroup.com, accessed on May 28, 2018.
- ↑ Bestmeat is now called Vion. In: agrarzeitung. February 18, 2005, accessed May 10, 2020 .
- ^ Off for slaughterhouse in Lüneburg. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Adjustment Vion closes Riedlingen. www.fleischwirtschaft.de, accessed on August 5, 2018.
- ↑ Vion closes the slaughterhouse and cutting plant in Zeven Jobs are lost, animal welfare suffers. www.kreiszeitung.de, accessed on August 5, 2018.
- ↑ Dieter Nürnberger: Foodwatch on the new meat scandal. Deutschlandradio , February 21, 2007.
- ↑ Press release Foodwatch. April 8, 2007.
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Norbert Dohn ) WDR, January 17, 2012.
- ↑ Thomas Bug: [1] WDR, January 27, 2012.
- ↑ Christoph Schmidt: Vion: proceedings discontinued. Rheinische Post , September 20, 2012.
- ^ NDR 1 Welle Nord: Investigations against slaughterhouse already in 2012 ( memento from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) February 28, 2014.
- ^ Raid on slaughterhouse in Bad Bramstedt. Schleswig-Holstein newspaper publisher, February 25, 2014.
- ↑ Vion has resumed the abattoir. Die Welt , March 31, 2014.
- ↑ Cruelty to animals and vermin in a slaughterhouse in Lower Bavaria. Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 27, 2016, accessed on July 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Violations of animal welfare and poor hygiene in Vion slaughterhouse. Agrarheute , July 29, 2016.
- ^ NDR television: Video "Tierquälerei bei Markenfleisch" - market. July 26, 2016, accessed March 7, 2017 .
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Coronavirus: Slaughterhouse has to close after mass infection - DER SPIEGEL - Economy. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .