Stern-Wywiol reports record sales

22 Apr 2016

The Hamburg-based Stern-Wywiol Gruppe achieved a record sales figure of €444 million in 2015 – resulting in 12% growth for the family business. The number of employees in Germany and abroad rose to nearly 1,000.

The Hamburg-based Stern-Wywiol Gruppe achieved a record sales figure of €444 million in 2015 – resulting in 12% growth for the family business. The number of employees in Germany and abroad rose to nearly 1,000. The company says it is planned to continue this positive development in the growing international market for food and feed ingredients with investments of €25 million in the next two years.

The Stern-Wywiol Gruppe comprises eleven independent specialist firms in Germany which develop, produce and market functional ingredients for the production of food and feed. They include internationally well-known names like Hydrosol, Mühlenchemie, SternMaid, SternVitamin, Sternchemie, SternEnzym, HERZA Schokolade and Berg+Schmidt. Each company has specific competence in a particular field, for instance bakery or dairy products, deli foods, meat, fish, chocolate, flavourings, lecithin, enzymes or vitamins.

“This special, customer-friendly structure is the basis of our innovative power and our success”, said Torsten Wywiol, who leads the group of companies in the second generation as its CEO. “Our diversified and flexible production system and our intensive applications research enable us to develop and sell product solutions tailor-made to individual customers. That is how we were able to assert ourselves against the big corporations in the international ingredients market again last year and achieve above-average growth across all the units.”

The company has set a sales target of €470 million in 2016.