Industry | Food |
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Headquarters | Fischach, Bavaria, Germany |
Key people
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Theo Müller (owner) Ronald Kers (CEO) Dirk Barnard Martin Göggelmann |
Products | Dairy |
Revenue | undisclosed |
Number of employees
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27,000 |
Subsidiaries | Müller Milk & Ingredients |
Website | www |
Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller (often called simply Müller) is a multinational producer of dairy products, with a headquarters in Fischach in the German state of Bavaria. Müller has a turnover of €5 billion. It is one of the UK's best selling yogurt brands and has 21,000 employees.
In 1971, Theo Müller took over the Müller company that was founded in 1896 by his grandfather in Aretsried, Bavaria. Theo Müller is the sole owner.
The group includes a number of companies operating under the Müller name, including the original Molkerei Alois Müller GmbH & Co. KG and Müller Dairy (U.K.). It is best known for its range of yogurts, including the trademark 'Müller Corner' and 'fresh milk based drinks'
In Germany, beside the group headquarters in Fischach which also houses the Molkerei Alois Müller production plant, the group also operates significant production sites in Freising (Molkerei Weihenstephan), Leppersdorf (Sachsenmilch and Käserei Loose), Market Drayton (Müller Dairy (U.K.)), and Prague (Mlékárna Pragolaktos).
In addition to the companies operating under the Müller name, the group wholly or partly owns the Molkerei Weihenstephan, Sachsenmilch and Käserei Loose dairy companies in Germany, the Mlékárna Pragolaktos dairy in the Czech Republic, and Müller Milk & Ingredients in the UK. A number of ancillary marketing and transport companies are also owned.
Through a joint venture with PepsiCo's Quaker Foods division, Müller entered the U.S. market in 2012. The company's U.S. plant opened in Batavia, New York, in 2013 and was the distribution hub for the United States. However, the company announced in December 2015 that it would close the plant.
Müller produces a substantial number of popular yogurt brands, including Müllerlight, Müllerice, Yogz and Müller Corner.