Zentis
German confectionery manufacturer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Zentis is a German jam and confectionery manufacturer. It supplies finished products to customers and also to companies, especially dairy product industries, for which it is the market leader in Europe.[1]
Company type | Private |
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Industry | Confectionery |
Founded | 20 June 1893; 130 years ago (1893-06-20) |
Founder | Franz Zentis |
Headquarters | , Germany |
Key people | Karl-Heinz Johnen, Hamed Hesami |
Products | fruit prepariations, sweet spreads, confectionery products |
Brands | 75% Frucht, 50% weniger Zucker (fruit spreads), Original Aachener Pflümli, Original Aachener Pflümli Zimt (plum jam), Nusspli, Belmandel (sweet creams), traditional seasonal marzipan, MyCorn cereal snack |
Revenue | (€711 million (2022)) |
Number of employees | (1,960 (2022, on average)) |
Website | zentis.de |
Fruit preparations, jams and sweet creams are produced at the production sites at the company headquarters in Aachen. Marzipan, chocolate and cereal specialties are manufactured in Eilendorf. Zentis also has manufacturing subsidiaries in Hungary, Poland, the U.S. and Russia, which produce fruit preparations for the dairy, ice cream and baked goods in particular, as well as confectionery.[2] In 2012, Zentis acquired the company Sweet Ovations LLC and with it two more production plants in the U.S.[3]
In 2019, as one of the largest fruit processing companies in Europe, the group employed an average of 2,137 employees and achieved a turnover of approximately 670 million euros,[4] of which almost three quarters were fruit preparations for the dairy industry (e. g. yoghurt, quark or drinks).[5]