Zeisner

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Zeisner Feinkost GmbH & Co. KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1902
Seat Grasberg
Branch food industry
Website www.zeisner.de

Zeisner Feinkost GmbH & Co. KG is a German delicatessen manufacturer that specializes in seasoned sauces . The company , which was founded in Bremen in 1902 , has been based in Grasberg near Bremen in Lower Saxony since the 1960s and is now managed in the legal form of a GmbH & Co. KG . The family company is currently managed by the fourth generation.

In 1937 Zeisner, as a manufacturing company at the time, produced “Germany's first ketchup ” and “consequently occupied a niche market ”. Today the company operates primarily as a regional branded goods company in northwest Germany, but is also active throughout Germany and internationally.

Company history

The company was founded in 1902 by the learned pharmacist Waldemar Zeisner in Bremen near the main train station located Philosophers founded. The company founder valued the English Worcester sauce , which he initially imported and traded with. At the same time, together with his wife Juliane Zeisner, he developed their own variant of the liquid wort , which became the first product of the Zeisner company. Advertised in the 1920s as "German Spice Sauce", it is still produced almost unchanged today and is now available as "Worcestershire Sauce".

Georg Zeisner, the son of the company founder, experimented with other seasoning sauces and then mixed Germany's first tomato ketchup in 1937 . This spicy sauce made on the basis of tomato paste , which had been widespread in England since the middle of the 18th century and in the USA since the middle of the 19th century, was still considered a culinary specialty in Germany at that time and was only available in specialty shops there since the beginning of the 20th century Imports available. At that time, ketchup was "not used as a sauce, but as a condiment to round off dishes".

That changed in the 1950s when Günther Zeisner (1934–2016) became the third generation to take over the company. After ketchup had become more widely known in Germany after 1945, initially through the British and American occupation soldiers, the demand rose “by leaps and bounds” in the 1950s with the advent of fast food, and Günther Zeisner and his wife Ursula Zeisner continued to expand the business with annual production growth . Because of the odor nuisance occurring during production, the company location was relocated from downtown Bremen to the outlying community of Grasberg in 1967. The company operated under the name Zeisner & Co.

In 1995 the great-grandson of the company founder and son of Günther Zeisner, the businessman Thomas Zeisner, joined the management team. Zeisner Feinkost GmbH & Co. KG is now managed by Thomas Zeisner in the fourth generation. The company is entered in the commercial register of the Walsrode Local Court .

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The company serves as a specialized food manufacturer German retail chains in food retail and hotel - restaurants , pubs and fast foods with ketchup and spicy sauces. Zeisner also supplies the food processing industry with the appropriate seasoning sauces.

Zeisner exports to Western European countries and also to other continents, such as the USA and Australia . The main export countries are Belgium , where Zeisner is one of the leading ketchup brands, and the Netherlands .

range

Zeisner mainly produces and sells various ketchups and other seasoned sauces, with a total of a dozen different flavors on offer. The “classic” of the company's range is still the tomato ketchup, made according to the company's own recipe from 1937 . The other ketchup range currently includes: curry ketchup , shashlik sauce , spice ketchup in the flavors “mild” and “hot”, gypsy sauce , barbecue sauce , curry sauce and Chinese sauce . In addition, Worcestershire sauce and soy sauce produced, as well as for large consumers too - only in larger containers offered - Worcestershire sauce in different flavors such as Light Worcestershire sauce and as a gluten-free and allergen-free variants. The range is supplemented by salad mayonnaise , which is only sold as a snack in the form of portion packs.

The range of ketchup and seasoned sauces is offered in different filling quantities and in different sales containers and packaging. Depending on the product, the following types of packaging and filling quantities are available for sale: plastic bottles (425 and 800  ml ), buckets (10 kg), canisters (5, 6, 10 and 12 kg), portion packs (20 ml) and glass bottles (140 and 1000 ml ), as well as in some cases also bag-in-box packaging (5 kg) and containers (900 and 1100 kg).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Sebastian Manz: Belgians love ketchup from Bremen. The Zeisner company produced Germany's first ketchup / Today the company is internationally active. In: Kurier am Sonntag , Markets & Macher , Bremen, July 31, 2011, p. 20.
  2. ↑ With calm and a lot of taste. Zeisner Feinkost produces in "Good Old" Grasberg . In: Courier on Sunday . Supplement "Best from the North" from December 2016, December 4, 2016, p. 4 .
  3. ↑ (dpa): Seasoning sauce. Kraft Germany celebrates 50 years of ketchup . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of July 2, 2004; Retrieved February 1, 2012.
  4. ^ SA Mann: European Food Processing Industry 1968. Noyes Development Corp., Park Ridge (USA) 1968, p. 83 ( online at Google books ).
  5. ↑ a b Torsten Fiddelke: The spice mixture as a secret. Delicatessen manufacturer Zeisner produces 25,000 bottles of ketchup every day . In: Die Welt from June 5, 2000; Retrieved February 1, 2012.
  6. ↑ Company portrait in the AOK magazine pa praxis aktuell ( memento from February 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).

Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 54.5 ″  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 32.8 ″  E