Stern-Wywiol Gruppe achieves 12 percent growth

The Hamburg-based Stern-Wywiol Gruppe achieved a record sales figure of 444 million EUR in 2015, resulting in 12 percent growth for the family business. 

The number of employees in Germany and abroad rose to nearly 1,000. It is planned to continue this positive development in the growing international market for food and feed ingredients with investments of 25 million EUR 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, including baked goods.
With an export share of over 80 percent, the independently operating companies supply customers in more than 100 countries in all of the continents. Fifteen foreign affiliates with a specific knowledge of their region, and in some cases research and production facilities of their own, ensure the group access to the most important markets.
In order to continue this positive development, the group will invest another 25 million EUR in enlarging research and production capacities in Germany and abroad over the next two years. New food technologists and sales staff will also be taken on for these functions in Hamburg and abroad. This, says the CEO Torsten Wywiol, will create a basis for continued growth of the group and a sales target of 470 million EUR in 2016.