Nordzucker
| Aktiengesellschaft | |
| Industry | Food processing |
| Founded | 1997 (Braunschweig, Germany) |
| Headquarters | Braunschweig, Germany |
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Key people
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Hartwig Fuchs (CEO), Hans-Christian Koehler (Chairman of the Supervisory Board) |
| Products | sugar, liquid sugars, sugar specialities, animal feed, bioethanol, carbolime |
| Revenue | € 2,443 million (2012/2013) |
| € 360 million (2012/2013) | |
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Number of employees
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3,290 (2012/2013) |
| Website | www |
Nordzucker AG, headquartered in Braunschweig, Germany, is Europe’s second largest sugar manufacturer. The production of sugar, liquid sugars and other specialities for the application in the nutrition, beverage and sweets industry as well as other sugar specialities like refined sugar, icing sugar, lump sugar, preserving sugar, tea sugars and flavoured sugars for consumers are the core business of the company. In addition to that, Nordzucker produces animal feed and bioethanol from sugar beet. In the 2012/2013 financial year, the company produced 2.8 million tons of sugar from 17.3 million tons of sugar beet which were cultivated on 266,000 hectares. Sales added up to EUR 2.4 billion and net income came to EUR 360 million. 40% of sales were generated in Northern Europe, 44% in Germany and 16% in Eastern Europe.
The Nordzucker AG was formed by the merger of the Braunschweig-based Zuckerverbund Nord AG (ZVN) and the Uelzen-based Zucker-Aktiengesellschaft Uelzen-Braunschweig (ZAG) in 1997.
Between 1999 and 2003, Nordzucker expanded to Eastern Europe and acquired its Polish plants Chełmża and Opalenica and its Slovakian plant Trenčianska Teplá.
In 2003, the Nordstemmen-based Union-Zucker Südhannover GmbH was integrated into the Group.
In March 2009, Nordzucker acquired the Copenhagen-based sugar manufacturer Nordic Sugar A/S (formerly known as Danisco Sugar) for EUR 730 million. Nordic Sugar runs sugar plants in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Lithuania.
The roots of the company date back to the year 1838, when the Klein Wanzleben plant, the first plant of the company that is still in service today, was founded.
The Nordzucker plants are primarily located in Germany and Eastern and Northern Europe.
In addition to that, the company runs sales and distribution locations in Riga (Latvia), Vilnius (Lithuania), Tallinn (Estonia), Reykjavik (Iceland), Oslo (Norway), Dublin (Ireland) and Athens (Greece) as well as an office in Brussels (Belgium).
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