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| 1837 |
Formation of the first sugar company of the
later Südzucker |
| 1926 |
First merger: Süddeutsche Zucker-AG,
Mannheim |
| 1951 |
Formation of Zuckerfabrik Franken GmbH |
1956
to 1971 |
Building of new sugar factories (Rain, Plattling,
Offenau, Zeil) |
| 1988 |
Second merger: Südzucker AG Mannheim/Ochsenfurt |
| 1989 |
Investment in AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG, Vienna |
| 1989 |
Investment in Raffinerie Tirlemontoise S.A.,
Brussels |
| 1991 |
Formation of Südzucker GmbH, Zeitz |
| 1995 |
Formation of Schöller Holding GmbH &
Co. KG,
Nuremberg |
| 1996 |
Acquisition of majority interest in Freiberger,
Berlin |
| 1996 |
Beginning investments in Poland |
| 1998 |
Acquisition of outstanding minority interest
in Freiberger |
| 1998 |
Investments in Moldova |
| 2000 |
Special products reach turnover of more than
0.5 billion € |
| 2001 |
75 years of Südzucker |
| 2001 |
Acquisition of Saint Louis Sucre S.A., Paris |
| 2001 |
Sale of Schöller Holding |
| 2003 |
Acquisition of 14 Silesian sugar factories,
SSC |
| 2003 |
Acquisition of the British Stateside Group
(chilled pizza) |
| 2003 |
Beginning investment in fruit additives/fruit
juice concentrates division by AGRANA |
| 2004 |
Start of construction of the bioethanol plant
in Zeitz |
| 2004 |
Worldwide expansion of fruit division |
| 2005 |
Start of bioethanol production in Zeitz |
| 2006 |
BENEO-Orafti factory in Chile comes on stream |
| 2006 |
IPO for the Südzucker subsidiary CropEnergies
(bioethanol) |
| 2006 |
European-wide expansion of the bioethanol
division |
| 2006 |
First joint venture with a leading apple-juice
concentrate producer in China |
| 2007 |
Production start for the fruit preparations
factory in Brazil |
| 2007 |
BENEO Group founded: Orafti, Palatinit and
Remy functional food activities merged |
| 2008 |
Bioethanol facility plant expansions in Zeitz
started up |
| 2008 |
Südzucker partners with Mauritius (400,000
tonnes of sugar) |
