- CEO
- Niels Porksen
- Full Time Employees
- 19,853
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Packaged Foods
- Address
- Maximilianstrasse 10 Mannheim BW Germany 68165
- IPO Date
- Aug 3, 2012
- Business
- Südzucker AG is Europe's leading sugar producer that processes agricultural raw materials including sugar beets, corn, potatoes and wheat into high-quality food products, ingredients, animal feed, ethanol and other industrial goods across five segments comprising sugar, special products, CropEnergies, starch and fruit; core offerings encompass beet sugars such as white, extra white, pearl, icing, organic, brown and cane varieties, sugar specialties including fondants, liquid sugars, invert syrups, glucose-fructose syrups and sucrose-based excipients like COMPRI, functional ingredients from BENEO such as prebiotic fibers, plant-based proteins and galenIQ pharmaceutical binders, frozen foods from Freiberger including pizzas, pasta and snacks, portion packs of dry, liquid and chunky products, renewable ethanol and neutral alcohol from CropEnergies, starches and saccharification products from AGRANA, fruit preparations and juice concentrates, plus co-products like beet pulp pellets, molasses, vital wheat gluten, betaine and fertilizers. Founded in 1926 and headquartered in Mannheim, Germany, the company operates over 90 production facilities primarily in Europe through subsidiaries including Saint Louis Sucre in France, Südzucker Polska, Raffinerie Tirlemontoise in Belgium, CropEnergies and AGRANA, with global reach in fruit processing; it serves business-to-business clients in food, beverage, feed, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and energy sectors, offering customized, certified organic, Fairtrade, GMO-free and halal/kosher solutions. In recent developments, Südzucker completed a delisting tender offer for CropEnergies AG in February 2024, increasing its stake to 94.2% and delisting the shares from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange to streamline its capital structure and advance growth strategies; the company issued a EUR 700 million hybrid bond, reported stable EUR 9.7 billion revenues for fiscal 2024/25 with non-sugar segments contributing 60%, initiated cost reductions and beet acreage cuts amid sugar market challenges while expanding into bio-based chemicals, convenience foods and proteins, and entered a strategic warehousing partnership with GEODIS via Südzucker Polska in November 2025.