Austria’s Norbert Marcher strikes deal for EG Südbayern slaughterhouses

Austria-based nutrient processor Norbert Marcher has bought a bulk involvement successful 2 slaughterhouses successful Germany.

Norbert Marcher has acquired a 51% holding successful EG Südbayern Schlachtbetriebs, a concern lodging the sites owned by German co-op EG Südbayern.

The deal, which marks Norbert Marcher’s introduction into Germany, comes little than 2 years aft EG Südbayern acquired the facilities outright from Dutch spouse Vion.

EG Südbayern had already owned a 49% involvement successful the slaughterhouses, which are located successful the confederate German towns of Landshut and Vilshofen.

Norbert Marcher volition instrumentality connected “sole operational and concern power of some facilities”, a associated connection read.

In the statement, Norbert Marcher, the managing spouse of the namesake, family-owned business, said: “We judge successful the aboriginal of nutrient and successful the show of Bavarian farmers. We are alert that the German nutrient manufacture is peculiarly competitory – with EG Südbayern we person recovered an perfect spouse – unneurotic we spot ourselves arsenic well-prepared for our introduction into the German market, besides arsenic a processor.”

Meat depletion successful Germany has been declining, although, according to authorities figures, it inched up past twelvemonth connected the backmost of request for poultry.

Data released past period by the Federal Information Centre for Agriculture (BZL) showed per-capita nutrient depletion stood astatine 54.9kg successful 2025, up 1.4kg connected a twelvemonth earlier.

However, by contrast, per-capita depletion was 63.8kg successful 2011.

“We deliberately chose a spouse who is intelligibly committed to the locations, afloat assumes concern responsibility, and has extended acquisition successful managing high-performing slaughtering and processing plants,” EG Südbayern CEO Erwin Hochecker said. “The purpose of the reorganisation is to sustainably fortify the competitiveness of the locations and permanently unafraid their relation wrong the determination worth chain."

The connection from the 2 companies said operations astatine the 2 sites “will proceed unchanged”.

The Norbert Marcher business, which has eleven sites crossed Austria supplies caller and processed nutrient to retail, foodservice and B2B customers.

“All existing concern relationships, proviso chains, and employment contracts volition stay successful place,” the connection added.

Earlier this month, Vion sold different nutrient installation successful Germany arsenic portion of the Dutch group’s exit from the country.

Ireland-based ABP Food Group struck a woody to bargain a slaughterhouse successful Buchloe.

The disposal followed the April merchantability of Vion’s Crailsheim and Waldkraiburg locations.

Vion began closing nutrient assets successful Germany successful 2023 and a twelvemonth aboriginal announced plans to exit the German marketplace entirely.