The Škoda Works was one of the largest European industrial conglomerates of the 20th century, founded by Czech engineer Emil Škoda in 1859 in Plzeň, then in the Kingdom of Bohemia, Austrian Empire. It is the predecessor of today's Škoda Auto, Doosan Škoda Power and Škoda Transportation companies.
Cascades is a Canadian company that produces, converts, and markets packaging and tissue products composed mainly of recycled fibres. Cascades employs more than 11,700 people in more than 85 operating units in North America. It was founded in 1964.
EDAG Engineering Group AG is an international corporate group active in the Engineering services sector. Since 2015, it has been based in Arbon, Canton Thurgau, Switzerland. The EDAG Group is one of the world's largest independent development partners to the automotive industry and aviation industry.
Barilla G. e R. Fratelli S.p.A. is an Italian multinational food company. It is the world's largest pasta producer.
Vorwerk & Co. KG, trading as Vorwerk, is an international diversified corporate group headquartered in Wuppertal, Germany. Vorwerk was founded in 1883.
The Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) is the pan-European association representing the forest fibre and paper industry.
Borealis AG is an Austrian chemical company which is the world's eighth largest producer of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP). It is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
Südzucker AG is a German company, the largest sugar producer in the world, with an annual production of around 4.8 million tonnes.
KEBA AG is an international developer and manufacturer of automation solutions for the industrial, banking, services and energy automation areas. The Austrian company was founded in 1968 and is privately owned. The company has annual sales revenues averaging €315,4 million, of which over 90% are obtained in export markets.
The Eckes-Granini Group GmbH is the largest corporate group specialized in the production of fruit juice in Europe. Eckes AG, which is based in Nieder-Olm in the Rhine-Hesse region and was once actively involved in beverage production, now serves as the group's financial holding company. Founded as a family-owned enterprise in 1857, Eckes AG has since sold off its German and international spirits business and focused exclusively on the production and sale of fruit beverages through the Eckes-Granini Group. Following the acquisition of the international premium brand Granini in 1994, Eckes-Granini GmbH & Co. KG was established as an independent producer and distributor of juices and fruit beverages.
Aurubis AG is listed on the stock exchange and is the largest copper producer in Europe and the largest copper recycler worldwide. Its headquarters is in Hamburg, Germany. After the acquisition of the Belgian copper producer Cumerio by Norddeutsche Affinerie AG on 18 February 2008, the company re-branded itself as Aurubis as of 1 April 2009.
The pewag group is an internationally operating group of companies. Its track record goes back to the year 1479.
Prosper De Mulder Group, commonly known as PDM Group, was a British group of companies that operated in a number of fields associated with the food chain. It was acquired by the German-based SARIA Group and the name was changed to SARIA in 2014. The company provided services to the agricultural and food sectors, as a producer of green forms of energy, and as a manufacturer of products for human consumption, pet food, aquaculture, oleochemistry and agriculture.
Nordzucker AG, headquartered in Braunschweig, Germany, is Europe’s second largest sugar manufacturer. The production of sugar, liquid sugars and other specialities for the application in the nutrition, beverage and sweets industry as well as other sugar specialities like refined sugar, icing sugar, lump sugar, preserving sugar, tea sugars, organic sugar and flavoured sugars for consumers are the core business of the company. In addition to that, Nordzucker produces animal feed and bioethanol from sugar beet. In the 2020/2021 financial year, the company produced 2.7 million tons of sugar from sugar beet and 0.7 million tons of sugar from sugar cane. Sales added up to EUR 1.67 billion and net income came to EUR 66 million.
Fr. Sauter AG is a Swiss-based Corporate group, internationally active in building automation and system integration, with headquarters in Basel. It operates from its head office under the name of Fr. Sauter AG. The group employs around 2300 people and generated sales of € 401 million.
XERVON GmbH is a multinational company specialized in providing technical services for building and maintaining industrial facilities as well as for a wide range of construction projects with headquarters in Cologne, Germany.
Leipnik-Lundenburger Invest Beteiligungs AG (LLI) is a holding company located in Vienna, Austria and primarily owned by Raiffeisen-Holding Niederösterreich-Wien reg.Gen.mbH as well as by Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich. Further shareholders are Raiffeisen Versicherungen AG (7.98%), UNIQA Österreich Versicherungen AG (2.02%) and Rübenbauernbund für Niederösterreich und Wien reg.Gen.mbH (6.89%).
Frosta Aktiengesellschaft is a frozen food company headquartered in Bremerhaven, Bremen, Germany. The corporation owns production facilities in Germany and Poland, with sales and distribution subsidiaries in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Romania. It had 1709 employees and revenues of Euro 501 million in 2017. FRoSTA is the market leader for frozen food in Germany and one of the largest in Europe.
Remondis is German multinational company for recycling, water resource management and industrial and communal services with headquarters in Lünen. Globally, it ranks among the biggest recycling firms. Remondis operates in over 800 locations in more than 30 countries with more than 30,000 employees and an estimated revenue of 6.4 billion Euro in 2018.
BioTech Foods is a Spanish biotechnology company dedicated to the development of cultured meat from the cultivation of muscle cells previously extracted from animals.
