Zur Mühlen Group

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To Muehlen ApS & Co. KG

logo
legal form ApS & Co. KG
founding 1998
Seat Böklund , Germany
management
  • Peter to the mills
  • Axel Knau
Number of employees approx. 2499 (2017; previous year 2180)
sales 671 million euros (2017; previous year 554)
Branch Food , meat processing
Website www.zurmuehlengruppe.de

The Zur Mühlen Group (spelling: zur Mühlen Group ) is a German manufacturer of meat and meat products , the market leader in self -service sausage and canned sausages. The parent company is Zur Mühlen ApS & Co. KG , based in Böklund .

The group includes the sausage brands Böklunder , Könecke , Redlefsen (including Jensen's and Heine's ), Schulte , Zerbster Original, Plumrose and Nölke (Gutfried). It produced, according to its own information in August 2019, with "seasonally" 4000 employees in Germany, Denmark and Poland "around 2 billion consumer units" (packs) each year, which makes a "calculated market share of 22%".

history

The eponymous founder of the company, Peter zur Mühlen, began his career at the Westphalian sausage manufacturer Stockmeyer , for which he was a member of the board for a total of 20 years. In 1991 he acquired 10 percent of the yoghurt manufacturer Onken and worked there until the surprising end of 1998. Soon, at the age of 50, he acquired the sausage manufacturer Böklunder near Flensburg and, after the turn of the millennium, expanded it into a large corporation in a few years by buying troubled or even insolvent companies. and with the help of its major customers in the grocery trade, it quickly generated sales.

Between 2011 and 2014, Clemens Tönnies , co-owner of the Tönnies Holding group , took over the Zur Mühlen Group as sole owner .

In December 2014, the Zur Mühlen Group took over Heinrich Nölke GmbH & Co. KG , i.e. the entire production area of Gebr. Nölke GmbH & Co. KG , to which the Federal Cartel Office raised no objections according to media reports.

In 2016, the Federal Cartel Office was unable to collect a fine of 128 million euros from the subsidiaries Böklunder Plumrose and Könecke Fleischwarenfabrik for proven price agreements because Tönnies took advantage of a legal loophole ( sausage gap ). Before delivery of the fine notices, he had transferred the activities of the companies to other companies in the Zur Mühlen Group and then liquidated them. Since the companies no longer existed legally, the fine proceedings had to be discontinued.

In 2017, Zur Mühlen took over the Blankemeyer Group in Gütersloh (Marten Vertriebs GmbH & Co. KG and Vogt & Wolf GmbH) from Tönnies Holding. In 2019, the Zur Mühlen Group took over the sausage business from Bell Germany .

Group of companies

In addition to the parent company Zur Mühlen ApS & Co. KG , the group of companies includes :

All international business of the group is coordinated by the subsidiary Zur Mühlen International (ZMI). This export department is an independent company of the Zur Mühlen Group. According to the company's own information, the global export share is 25%. Eleven export offices market the products in 40 countries, mainly in Europe , Asia , Australia and the Middle East .

Plants and locations

Technology center

Technology center of the "Zur Mühlen Group"

In 2010 the technology center in Satrup was opened. There are laboratories for microbiology, chemistry and sensor technology for product development, quality management and quality assurance.

Satrup plant

Satrup plant

Production focus:

Böklund plant

Böklund plant

Production focus:

Elmshorn plant

Production focus:

  • Fresh sausages
  • bratwurst
  • Raw sausage

Delmenhorst plant

Delmenhorst plant

Production focus:

  • Boiled sausage
  • cold cuts
  • Boiled sausage
  • Raw and cooked ham
  • Delicatessen convenience
  • Canned meat

Dissen plant

Dissen plant

Production focus:

  • Raw sausage
  • Service goods
  • Self-service goods
  • Snacks

Versmold plant

Production focus:

  • Poultry sausage
  • Vegetarian products

Gütersloh plant

Production focus:

  • Mold-ripened raw sausage
  • Smoked raw sausage

Landsberg plant

Production focus:

  • Bavarian specialties
  • Cooked sausages
  • cooked ham

Chemnitz plant

Production focus:

  • Boiled sausage
  • hot dog
  • Meat sausage

Zerbst plant

Zerbst plant

Production focus:

Plant Słubice (Poland)

Slubice plant

Production focus:

Brands

Criticism & Controversy

see also: Tönnies Holding # criticism and controversy

According to information provided by the food-pleasure-restaurants union in June 2020 , Tönnies had tried in the past at the Zur Mühlen Group to smash all union structures.

Web links

Commons : Zur Mühlen Gruppe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Zur Muehlen ApS & Co. KG, Böklund, consolidated financial statements for the business year from 01/01/2017 to 12/31/2017, Flensburg District Court HR A 7809 FL. Dated June 14, 2018. Published in the Federal Gazette , March 27, 2019, accessed on August 13, 2019 .
  2. a b About us. Self-declaration. zurmuehlengruppe.de, accessed on August 13, 2019 .
  3. Mario Brück: The rise of the Zur-Mühlen group. Wirtschaftswoche , February 3, 2015, accessed on August 13, 2019 .
  4. Tönnies expands its sausage empire. DPA notification. Handelsblatt , July 5, 2011, accessed on August 13, 2019 .
  5. Silke Derkum: Nölke sold to Zur-Mühlen-Gruppe. Haller Kreisblatt , December 19, 2014, archived from the original on May 3, 2015 ; accessed on August 13, 2019 .
  6. Helmut Bünder, Jan Grossarth: Sausage manufacturer Tönnies presents the cartel office. FAZ , February 3, 2015, accessed on June 28, 2015 .
  7. Tönnies writes legal history with the "Wurst-Lücke". Article in Welt Online from October 19, 2016.
  8. Gütersloh sausage producer Marten is about to go on sale , nw.de, May 3, 2017
  9. Norbert Lehmann: Tönnies subsidiary Zur Mühlen takes over Bell's German sausage business. In: agrarheute.com. July 29, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019 .
  10. The strong partner for the world market. Self-declaration. zurmuehlengruppe.de, accessed on August 13, 2019 .
  11. Nils Klawitter, DER SPIEGEL: Trade unionists on working conditions at Tönnies: "That is inhuman" - DER SPIEGEL - Economy. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 36 ′ 10.8 "  N , 9 ° 35 ′ 12.5"  E