Rügenwalder Mühle

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Pfeifer & Langen Acquires Majority Stake in Rügenwalder Mühle Ahead of Future Plant-Based Growth

Rügenwalder Mühle, the German family company which famously began as an animal-based sausage producer and went on to become the German market leader for plant-based meat products, has sold a majority stake to the holding company Pfeifer & Langen IHKG, which also owns stakes in vegan companies Vbites and endori. Based in Cologne, Pfeifer & Langen IHKG is an in-family-owned food company whose historical core is the sugar manufacturer Pfeifer & Langen. Its subsidiaries include Intersnack, a manufacturer of snacks that owns the British household name KP Snacks. Pfeifer & Langen acquired a 25.1% minority stake in Heather Mills’ Vbites in 2021, allowing the company to significantly expand capacity at its factory in Peterlee, England. The multi-million pound investment was said to have created hundreds …

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Heather Mills VBites plant-based food

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Investments & Finance

Heather Mills’ VBites Plant Creates Hundreds of Jobs Amid German Food Giant Investment

Heather Mills’ VBites plant in Peterlee, UK is set to create over 320 new jobs in the area following a multimillion-pound partnership with food giant Pfeifer & Langen. The German food conglomerate has entered into a strategic partnership with the plant-based producer, purchasing 25.1% of VBites.  The new Peterlee plant will now expand production after the Pfeifer & Langen announcement. The minority stake owner specializes in large-scale food manufacturing and is the parent company of Intersnack – which has an annual turnover of €2 billion. The partnership with VBites will complement Pfeifer & Langen’s previous investment in German pea-protein brand Endori Producer of vegan meat, seafood, and dairy products, VBites has experienced impressive growth over the last year and currently exports to more than 20 …

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Pfeifer & Langen Invests in Innovation Leader AMIDORI

Amidori, leading innovator in the 100 per cent vegetarian high-protein food segment, and Pfeifer & Langen Handels-KG will be cooperating in a new partnership. The Pfeifer & Langen Handels-KG is the proprietary company of some leading enterprises within the food industry (owning Intersnack, Pfeifer & Langen Zucker and Naturkost Übelhör, among others), and has acquired a majority shareholding in the European plant proteins market’s leading innovator.

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