Tönnies Group expands management
The Tönnies Group welcomes Julia Hupp to the management team. As Chief Transformation Officer, she will now be responsible for bundling the transformation work within the group...
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Gustav Ehlert celebrates his 100th anniversary
100 years of partner to the food industry. Gustav Ehlert GmbH & Co. KG, based in Verl, will celebrate this anniversary in 2024. Founded as a butcher's supplies wholesaler, the Ehlert company supplied craft businesses and meat and sausage production companies that are traditionally strongly anchored in the Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Gütersloh and Versmold area...
Özdemir on declining meat consumption: “Use new market opportunities”
Meat consumption among Germans will fall to its lowest level in 2023. The long-term trend towards decreasing meat consumption continued in 2023. According to preliminary information from the Federal Information Center for Agriculture (BZL), per capita meat consumption fell by 430 grams to 51,6 kilograms. This is the lowest value since records began...
Mechanical engineering 2023: at record levels worldwide!
In 2023, German manufacturers of food processing and packaging machines achieved a nominal export increase of 8,6 percent and reached a record value of 9,85 billion euros...
Angle grinder for fresh and frozen meat blocks with sophisticated technology
K+G Wetter spent four well-attended days at the Anuga FoodTec in Cologne. “We are extremely satisfied with the Anuga. Our salespeople and technicians were in conversation from morning to night - with long-standing customers from all over the world, but also with companies that do not yet work with our machines," reports K+G Wetter managing director Andreas Wetter...
Green light for Rügenwalder Mühle
The European Commission has approved the majority stake of the family holding Pfeifer & Langen Industrie- und Handels-KG in the family company Rügenwalder Mühle Carl Müller GmbH & Co. KG. The approval by the European Commission was preceded by intensive examination. With the official approval of the investment, the way is clear for the two family companies to merge...
Westfleisch will continue to grow in 2023
Westfleisch continued to grow in 2023: The second largest German meat marketer based in Münster was able to increase its sales by 11 percent to 3,35 billion euros last year. Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) rose by almost 7 percent to 37,7 million euros. The annual surplus amounts to 21,5 million euros...
DGE recommends a maximum of 300 grams of meat per week
Plant-based diet. Does that mean we all have to be vegetarian or vegan now? A clear no. If you like to eat meat and at the same time protect your health and the environment, you can limit your consumption to a maximum of 300 grams per week. This is what the German Society for Nutrition recommends based on scientific models...
The cow and the climate
A plant-based diet is the right strategy for a more climate-friendly agriculture and food system. However, the rule of thumb that “the cattle are to blame for everything” has now become established in many people’s minds. And yes: the production of animal food has a significantly greater impact on the climate than the production of plant-based food...
Anuga FoodTec 2024 was a complete success
Anuga FoodTec 2024 has once again strengthened its position as the primary supplier trade fair and central platform for the global food and beverage industry. 'Responsibility' was the guiding theme of the trade fair and its extensive specialist program, which provided answers to questions in the areas of alternative protein sources, energy and water management, digitalization and artificial intelligence...
Severe obesity continues to increase
More and more people are suffering from severe obesity. In 2022, more than a billion people around the world were obese. Since 1990, the number of people affected has more than doubled among adults and even quadrupled among children and young people. This was shown by a study that was recently published in the journal “The Lancet”. The World Health Organization (WHO) was involved in data collection and analysis in 197 countries...