Special products segment
Overview
Production sites
21 worldwide
Products
Ingredients offering additional benefits for food, baby food, animal nutrition, non-food & pharmaceuticals; Convenience Food; Portion packs, contract manufacturing/packaging
Customers
Food, animal nutrition and pharmaceutical industries; Food retailers; Hotels, Gastronomy, Catering
Special products segment
The special products segment comprises the divisions BENEO, Freiberger and PortionPack.
BENEO
BENEO produces and markets ingredients with nutritional and technological benefits derived from various plant-based raw materials for use in food and animal nutrition.
Freiberger Group
Freiberger Group is a producer of chilled and frozen pizzas, frozen pasta dishes and snacks with a clear focus on private label business in Europe and the USA.
PortionPack Group
PortionPack Group specialises in developing, packaging and marketing portion packs.
- BENEO produces and markets functional ingredients from plant-based raw materials that have nutritional and technological benefits.
- Products made from raw materials such as chicory root, sugar beet, rice, wheat, faba beans and more: Dietary fibres, flours and starches, vegetable proteins, vegetable texturisers, prebiotics, sugar replacers, low glycaemic index sugars
- Fields of application: food (bakery, cereals, beverages, baby food, confectionery, dairy and milk substitute products, meat and fish substitutes, soups and sauces); animal nutrition; pharmaceutical excipients (for tablets etc.), etc.
- Consulting in the areas nutritional science and application technology; support for the development of innovative foods.
- Sales offices in Asia, Europe, South America and the USA as well as a sales network in more than 80 countries.
- One of the three largest manufacturers of frozen and chilled Pizza worldwide; world market leader in private label pizza
- Products: deep-frozen and chilled pizza as well as deep-frozen pasta dishes and snacks; Out-of-Home segment in the retail sector
- Production locations: Berlin, Muggensturm, Osterweddingen, Burg, Oberhofen/Austria, Westhoughton/Great Britain and another 2 in the USA
- 30 lines; daily output of up to 3.5 million pizzas
- Specialist for private labels, supplier of many leading food retailers in Europe and North America
- Brands: Pizzatainment, Alberto, al Forno
- Design, production and sales of portion packed products; contract manufacturing and contract packaging
- Product range: Dry products (e.g. sugar, sweeteners, spices, powdered drinks, oatmeal, etc.); liquid products (e.g. sauces, honey, concentrates, etc.); chunky products (e.g. biscuits, peppermint sweets, chewing gum, etc.)
- European market leader
- Major market: out of home (hotels, catering, restaurants and canteens)
- Ten affiliates in seven countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, South Africa and Spain