General Information 

❖ Family business since the beginning of the 19th century

❖ Headquarters in Schöppingen

❖ 150 employees

❖ 2,8 % Market share in 2019

 

Products

❖ 30,000 pigs per week (1.6 million per year)

❖ Import, export and direct marketing to regional customers

 

Strategy

❖ Efficient operation due to highly modernized operation and few employees

❖ Focus on modernisation of the slaughterhouse

❖ Nationally and internationally active on the market

❖ To be sustainably active in the region → savings of CO2 and own biogas plants for the production of                               environmentally friendly electricity and heat, purchase of piglets from the region

❖ Stress reduction in animals for good meat 

 

Purchasing

❖ Only pigs of regional origin, purchase of slaughter pigs from farms and fatteners (max. 70 km away)

 

Location

❖ With only one location and 150 employees among the top 10 German pig slaughterhouses

❖ Exemplary equipped and modern production plant

❖ Have IFS certification with version 5

 

Sales / Export

❖ Sale of pig halves, sow halves, piglets and offal and offal from pigs

❖ National and international sales