Weiling (wholesaler)
| Weiling GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1975 |
| Seat |
Coesfeld , Germany
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| management | Bernd Weiling, Peter Meyer |
| Number of employees | 508 |
| sales | EUR 207.5 million |
| Branch | Wholesale of organic food |
| Website | http://www.weiling.de |
| As of December 31, 2016 | |
Weiling GmbH is a wholesaler of food products based in Coesfeld . The company mainly sells products from organic brands to retailers throughout Germany ; including under the own brand organic shop .
Companies
In 1975 Roswitha and Bernd Weiling founded a mail order business for health products, followed three years later by an organic store in Coesfeld. Over the years, this resulted in today's wholesaling company. It is still owned by the family to this day; all shareholders are members of the Weiling family. In addition to the founding managing director Bernd Weiling, the logistics specialist became in 2007Peter Meyer appointed managing director. With an ever-increasing variety of products in the around 1000 retail stores supplied by Weiling across Germany, Weiling became the second largest German organic wholesaler, whereby the growing demand, with some 20 percent annual growth rates, is primarily due to the interest of affluent groups in high-priced organic products.
In addition to the founding headquarters in Coesfeld with a plot area of 66,000 m² today, the company also has a seat in Lonsee near Ulm with an area of 42,000 m². In 2015, Weiling expanded its storage capacity at its headquarters in Coesfeld. The company built a new high-bay warehouse on an area of 12,000 m² and expanded its office wings. The 33-meter-high high-bay warehouse has a capacity of 6000 Euro pallets on an area of 1000 m² , supplemented by an aluminum construction that can carry almost 50,000 containers, including for bulk goods .
distribution
The company specializes in the distribution of products that are manufactured using organic and sustainable processes. Many of them had this production method confirmed by various certificates (“ organic seals ”). According to its own information, the company sells around 11,000 different products from more than 600 suppliers worldwide. In addition to food, including wine , cosmetics are also sold.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual financial statements in the Federal Gazette
- ^ History of Weiling GmbH . In: weiling.de . Retrieved February 23, 2018.
- ↑ 40 years of Weiling GmbH. In: bio-markt.info. Retrieved February 23, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Uwe Goerlich: Robots on high shelves. In: Allgemeine Zeitung (Coesfeld) . October 16, 2015, accessed February 23, 2018 . s
- ↑ Achim Spiller: Target groups for organic food: an overview . P. 6, 18 and 30. University of Göttingen . December 2006.
- ↑ gray * cells Bonn: guidelines and facts. In: weiling.de. Retrieved on February 23, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Range. In: weiling.de. Retrieved on February 23, 2018 (German).