The Advisory Board for Food Law informs itself on site
Frankfurt am Main, March 31, 2017. With the amendment of the Animal Welfare Act, castration of piglets without anesthesia is no longer possible ...
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"Barbecue Special" 2017
Frankfurt am Main, March 30, 2017. With the customer magazine "Grillen Spezial 2017" and the associated advertising material, German butcher shops have a complete advertising campaign for the barbecue season at their disposal again this year. The aim of the campaign is to position the master butcher as a grill specialist, to awaken consumer demand for grilled products from specialist butcher shops and ultimately also to promote brand loyalty to the f-brand...
DFV-year comparison of operating costs
Frankfurt am Main, March 17, 2017. The German Butchers' Association is again presenting a nationwide comparison of operating costs this year. The average values published for five different sales volume classes are based on the balance sheets and profit and loss accounts of the participating companies for 2015. Participation in the DFV operating cost comparison is free of charge. The absolute confidentiality of the evaluation is guaranteed...
Butcher's trade 2016: More sales with fewer companies
Frankfurt am Main, March 15, 2017. At the end of 2016, the German butcher trade had 21.329 stationary sales outlets on the market. This number is made up of 12.797 independent master businesses and 8.532 other sales outlets, which are operated as branches in addition to the main shops. In addition to the stationary shops and branches, there are also around 5.000 mobile sales outlets for the butcher trade, which are regularly found at weekly markets or are on the move in the tour service...
DFV President on the positions of the German butcher trade in the 2017 election year
“Strong craftsmanship, efficient medium-sized companies and functioning regional structures are necessary prerequisites for sustainable economic activity. Practically all politicians acknowledge this as a matter of course, not only in Sunday speeches, but also in serious debates...
Positions of the butcher trade on the 2017 federal election
Frankfurt am Main, March 7, 2017. The German Butchers' Association, together with the state guild associations, has formulated positions for the butchers' trade for the 2017 federal election. They were adopted at the full board meeting on February 8th and presented at the Obermeistertagung. The association calls on all representatives of the butcher trade to use this position paper as a basis for political discussions...
New community promotion for butchers' guilds
Frankfurt am Main, March 4, 2017. The German Butchers' Association developed the "Wild Weeks" campaign as part of the 2017 joint advertising. The aim of the campaign is to enable butchers' guilds to use attractive joint advertising with a manageable budget...
The celebratory event of the f-quality test
The Bavarian Butchers’ Association and at the same time the state guild association for the Bavarian butchers’ trade are holding a celebratory event of the f-quality test on February 12th, from 11 a.m., in the Neusäß town hall...
The numbers under control DFV sales cost analysis for 2016
Frankfurt am Main, February 9, 2017. Guild companies who would like to take part in the current sales and cost analysis of the German Butchers' Association have the opportunity to do so from now until the end of April. The business advice center of the DFV examines the data from the financial accounting of the member company for possible weaknesses. In this way, the experts at the DFV specifically track down abnormalities that deviate from the achievable result. The numbers from 2016 are being examined...
Butchers' guilds join forces
"The previously independent butchers' guilds from the Rhine district of Neuss and the district of Viersen as well as from the city of Krefeld have merged to form the Niederrhein butchers' guild. The head master is Willi Schillings on."
Discussion with Alois Rainer
Frankfurt am Main, December 16, 2016. DFV President Dohrmann and General Manager Martin Fuchs met with the CSU member of the Bundestag Alois Rainer for a very detailed exchange. As a member of the Budget Committee and the Committee for Food and Agriculture of the Bundestag, he works on the topics that are important for the butcher's trade. Rainer is also a self-employed master butcher who runs his company in Straubing together with his son...