SÜDZUCKER SUGAR DIVISION – Your partner for plant-based sweetening solutions
Sugar is used in many areas from food to non-food applications and not just for sweetening. Depending on the application, it provides additional important functions: it can improve a product’s texture, color, flavor, shelf life, and other characteristics, both in food and non food products.
At the Südzucker Group’s Sugar Division, we ensure that consumers, as well as food and beverage industries, can rely on sugar beet as the best plant-based ingredient for their recipes. By becoming our business partner, you can create those sweet moments for your customers and their families.
Our premium ingredients are used not only in food products, but also in essential applications such as pharmaceuticals and fermentation. As a dedicated sugar producer, we are committed to making the world a sweeter place.
When you work with us, you can count on us to be a reliable, high-quality supplier and a champion of innovation in the field of plant-based sweetening solutions.
But who or what exactly is the Südzucker Sugar Division?
Südzucker Sugar Division
The Südzucker Sugar Division is an independent organisational unit responsible for Südzucker’s sugar business. We are a reliable sugar supplier with sugar factories throughout Europe. Our main products are sugar and sugar specialities for our industry partners and end consumers. Our co-products include animal feed, BeetKraft® and carbolime, and our portfolio is complemented by other customised services and products based on sugar beets.
In essence, the Südzucker Sugar Division is the core business of the Südzucker Group. You could say that we are the roots that got it all started. Over the years, the Südzucker Group has grown by adding new divisions and companies, but its core business remains sugar.
The Mission, Vision and Purpose of the Südzucker Sugar Division
The Sugar Division is headed by its own management team
Dr Mike Eberle – CEO Südzucker Sugar Division Südzucker AG
“As part of the Südzucker Group family, we are proud to head up the Group’s core activities rooted in a long-standing tradition across many countries, and in collaborating with employees who have repeatedly shown their ability to overcome the numerous challenges our business has encountered in recent years.
The cultivation of a pure, natural crop like the sugar beet is the foundation for producing high-quality beet sugar – a valued ingredient in numerous everyday products. For our customers, we aim to be the preferred partner for a wide range of beet-based solutions.”
Otto Brehm – CSO Südzucker Sugar Division Südzucker AG
“We’re uniquely positioned at the centre of the farm-to-fork paradigm. Our mission is to bring value to our farmers, customers, consumers and further value chain partners in everything we do. In a nutshell: identify customers’ and consumers’ needs and then develop the right solutions for them. The close-knit exchange with all parties involved allows us to find sweet-spot solutions and use our vast infrastructure to continuously improve our service to our partners and customers.”
Markus Neundörfer – CFO Südzucker Sugar Division Südzucker AG
“Growing in balance, i.e., responding and contributing to fair political and regulatory dynamics will generate opportunities for profitable growth. The Sugar Division follows Südzucker Group’s Strategy 2026+ by developing innovative, sustainable and beneficial solutions. As Business Partners, Sugar Division Finance and Controlling is fully dedicated to this. Let´s go for it together!”
Frank Kiesewetter – COO Südzucker Sugar Division Südzucker AG
“Our goal is to generate maximum value for our customers from the raw materials we source and process year-round – primarily beet sugar and co-products derived from regional sugar beets. We are firmly dedicated to ensuring occupational health and safety for our employees, continuously improving our processes, investing in further digitalization, and enhancing efficiency – including emission reduction targets. All of this is made possible by the outstanding team members at each of our locations.”
Proximity, Quality and Partnership - The Sweet Spot of Our Sugar Solutions
Sustainability – our core value for decades
As the scope of our activities covers everything from field to fork, sustainability has been a core business purpose and a key driver of our operations for decades. Environmental and social responsibility are essential elements of our business strategy and corporate culture.
As part of the integrated Südzucker Group, the Südzucker Sugar Division defined four main impact areas, on which it focuses its sustainability activities:
SUSTAINABLE FARMING
Promote local and sustainable farming by creating more transparency across the value chain.
FOSTERING BIODIVERSITY
Together with our farmers preserve biodiversity in local ecosystems. Engage on a responsible use of water.
EMISSIONS REDUCTION
CONSCIOUS CONSUMPTION
Highest quality standards
At Südzucker we are committed to the highest quality standards – for our products, our work practices, and our process/quality management. We undergo industrial certifications with well-known, established certification systems and regularly receive the highest ratings:
Südzucker – Your Partner For Plant-based Sweetening Solutions
