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Page 1/2 Facts and figures The Fuchs Group Company Dieter Fuchs founded the Fuchs Gewürze GmbH in 1952, and today it unites 19 legally independent companies as the Fuchs Group. The Fuchs Group is Germany’s biggest spice producer and the world’s largest privately owned spice company. The company offers tailor-made solutions for the food retail, the food service and the food industry. The Theodor Kattus GmbH with the brands Bamboo Garden, Escoffier, Fuego, Jadira and Kattus has also belonged to the product portfolio since 2006. 2,800 employees work in eight countries on four continents. The Fuchs Group is represented in Germany at the company headquarters in Dissen am Teutoburger Wald (Lower Saxony) and in Abstwind (Bavaria), Hamlar (Bavaria), Melle (Lower Saxony) and Schönbrunn (Thuringia). Competence, quality and sustainability The Fuchs Gruppe offers customers uncompromising quality, continuous innovations and individually customised solutions. The company exerts active influence on the entire value creation chain – from growing and harvesting the spices and purchasing raw materials according to stringent quality standards to processing and packing the finished product. For example, the Fuchs Group buys exclusively unground raw goods and processes these in its own production facilities and spice mills in Germany. This allows the company to guarantee its own high standards of competence, quality and sustainability. Key figures The Fuchs Group’s customers include in particular the food retail (52 percent), the food industry (43 percent) and food service (5 percent). The Fuchs Group pursues a consistent strategy of internationalisation, which ensures steady growth in all foreign markets. Most recently, the Fuchs Group entered the Austrian and Italian markets in 2014. The Fuchs Group’s most important markets measured in terms of turnover are Germany (53 percent), the USA (17 percent) and France (8 percent). The Fuchs Group’s brand world The Fuchs Group offers retail, food service and industrial customers in the business segments Retail Spices Germany, Retail International, taste Innovations, Foodservice and Industry International an extensive range of spices, culinary trends and innovative food technology with nearly 7,000 products.
