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| Annual Report Nordzucker 2011/2012
Nordzucker at a glance
Group management report of Nordzucker AG Nordzucker at a glance
Furthermore, Nordzucker produces bioethanol from upstream
Sites in Europe
sugar products (raw juice and thick juice) and molasses at fuel 21 Business activities
GmbH & Co. KG. in Klein Wanzleben.
Headquarters Nordzucker
DThe Nordzucker Group is the second largest sugar producer
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in the EU, with a market share of more than 15 per cent. In the
Group structure
reporting year Nordzucker produced around 2.9 million tonnes
The Nordzucker Group is divided into three regions: Central,
of sugar from 17.9 million tonnes of sugar beet at 13 sites in
Northern and Eastern Europe.
Head Office
sugar at three refineries. The company had an average of 3,280
Central Europe
Europe GmbH, Vienna
employees in the reporting year.
With five sugar factories and more than 1,000 staff, Nordzucker
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seven countries. Nordzucker also turns raw sugar into white
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AG accounts for the major share of business in Central Europe.
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Nordzucker Eastern Nordic Sugar, Køpenhavn
Sugar factories
Our customers include the confectionery industry as well as pro-
In addition to Nordzucker there are three other sugar producers
ducers of dairy products, jams, ice-cream and drinks. Around 20
in Germany. The factories in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt
per cent of our sugar is sold to individual consumers via r etailers.
produce around one million tonnes of quota sugar a year for in-
Nordzucker distributes most of this sugar under the product
dustrial and retail customers – primarily for the German market.
brands SweetFamily and Dansukker. In addition, Nordzucker sells
Nordzucker AG also sells other products of the sugar-making
other products from sugar production: dried pulp pellets and
process such as animal feed and molasses. Its business accounts
pressed pulp as animal feed, molasses for the yeast and a lcohol
for 41 per cent of Group revenues.
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The Central Europe region also includes fuel 21. The company
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5 Nordstemmen
6 Uelzen
7 Klein Wanzleben
8 Schladen
Northern Europe 12
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industry, and carbolime for use as fertiliser.
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Since 2011 Nordzucker has been distributing products based
has been producing and marketing bioethanol from sugar beet
on the sweetener stevia in a joint venture (NP Sweet) with its
since late 2007. fuel 21 contributes five per cent to consolidated
partner PureCircle. Stevia is a natural, zero-calorie sweetener
revenues.
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sweeteners. The aim of NP Sweet is to open up this new sales
Furthermore, Nordzucker AG is the sole partner in Norddeutsche
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Trenčianska Teplá
market by d eveloping stevia products in collaboration with
Flüssigzucker GmbH & Co. KG, which operates two liquid sugar
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Liquid sugar factory
customers.
factories, in Nordstemmen and Groß Munzel.
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and does not compete directly with sugar but with artificial
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Chełmża
Groß Munzel
Liquid sugar factory
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Nordstemmen 9
Refineries S
Corporate structure of Nordzucker Group
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Eastern Europe region
non-consolidated
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Eastern Europe
minority stake CZ
22 Dobrovice
23 České Meziříčí
Nordic Sugar A/S, Copenhagen/Denmark, 100 %
Nordzucker Eastern Europe GmbH, Vienna/Austria, 100 %
Nordic Sugar AB, Malmö/Sweden, 100 %
Nordzucker Polska S.A., Przeżmierowo/Poland, 99.87 %
Other locations
Suomen Sokeri OY, Kantvik/Finland, 100 %
Považský Cukor a.s., Trenčianska Teplá/Slovakia, 96.80 %
Klein Wanzleben
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NP Sweet,
Sucros OY, Säkylä/Finland, 80.00 %
Tereos TTD a.s., Dobrovice/Czech Republic, 35.38 %
Køpenhavn
AB Nordic Sugar Kèdainiai, Wilna/Lithuania, 70.60 %
Mátra Cukor Zrt., Hatvan/Hungary, 99.89 %
Nordzucker Ireland Ltd., Dublin/Ireland, 100 %
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fuel 21 GmbH & Co. KG, Klein Wanzleben/Germany, 100 %
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Chełmża
Sugar factories –
Norddeutsche Flüssigzucker GmbH & Co. KG, Braunschweig/Germany,
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Nordzucker AG Northern Europe region
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FIN 20 Porkkala PL
Central Europe region
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fuel 21,
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Central Europe
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