Apetito

The apetito AG is a German food manufacturers. The company is headquartered in Rheine achieved in 2012 a turnover of € 733 million and employs 8,902 people worldwide.

The company was founded in 1958 by Karl Gunbad as Apetito ready meal. Were prepared frozen meals complete in aluminum trays. 1969 leads a apetito the hitherto unknown in Germany catering. Today apetito is one of the market leaders for ready meals in Europe and is also selling on the Internet operates.

More than 1.3 million people consume daily food of the company - making it one the family business with headquarters in the Westphalian town of Rheine for many years been the market leader and pioneering innovator in the catering and retail market. Fresh frozen and chilled menus and menu components as well as extensive catering concepts are the central components of the production and services of apetito group. The group also has the apetito AG subsidiaries in Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France and Canada and its sister company apetito catering.

Apetito offers day care centers, schools, businesses, hospitals, seniors' facilities and meals on wheels - menu catering services specific solutions in the form of frozen products and systems. In addition, apetito has established itself in the food retail sector as a producer for frozen meals. The company is represented by the brands apetito, MinusL and Costa in the freezers of the German retail trade.

Since late 2007, the manufacturer part for frozen fish and seafood specialties Costa seafood GmbH & Co. KG, Emden Constantia to Apetito group. The company was founded in 1968 under the name Copa bath. While in the early years, the import of food specialties from the Mediterranean was the main business, company specialized in over the years increasingly to the production of frozen seafood. The company from 1990 to 2007 belonged to the Oetker Group. In 1997 the name was changed from Copa beach to Costa seafood.

In autumn 2011 apetito had first participated in a benchmark study by the Institute " Great Place to Work ". Right away, the company achieved the 18th place in the best employers in Germany in category "Companies with 501-2000 employees ' ranking. At the same time apetito best newcomer in this category.

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