FELIX Austria GmbH

About FELIX Austria

FELIX Austria is an Austrian food manufacturer headquartered in Mattersburg in Burgenland. The company produces a broad range of delicatessen products, including more than ten ketchup varieties, sauces, mayonnaise, sugo & pesto, ready meals, soups and pickled cucumbers. Since 1962, when the first FELIX ketchup was bottled, the products have stood for Austrian taste. Production takes place at the Mattersburg site to high quality standards: without preservatives, flavour enhancers and colourings, partly gluten- and lactose-free. The company relies on regional sourcing – the meat in sugos, ready meals and soups is 100 % Austrian, and the cucumbers are processed fresh from harvest from Austrian cucumber fields. With innovations such as the first ketchup without added sugar, organic ketchup varieties, the patented freshness closure with ring technology and mayonnaise in a tube made of 100 % recycled aluminium, FELIX continuously develops its products. The company is also committed to sustainability areas such as nutrition, food safety, responsible sourcing and environmental protection.

Site

Mattersburg, Austria

Processes

Product development/innovations (e.g. ketchup without added sugar, patented freshness closures), Brand partnerships (Austrian Federal Fire Brigade Association)

Materials

Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Meat from Austria, Rapeseed oil (Austria), Free-range eggs

Certificates

Food safety & hygiene standards, Traceability of raw materials, ISO 9001 certified

Founded

1962

Industries

Food/FMCG (ketchup, sauces, mayonnaise, sugo & pesto, ready meals,, Retail/Food retail

1. 01

   Product development & recipe creation

2. 02

   Sourcing of regional raw materials (tomatoes, cucumbers, meat from Austria)

3. 03

   Production in Mattersburg

4. 04

   Bottling (glass, plastic bottle, tube)

5. 05

   Quality control & food safety

6. 06

   Distribution to the Austrian food retail trade

Products & Ingredients

Locations

Mattersburg

AT

Production (manufacture of ketchup, sauces, sugos, cucumbers etc.)

Materials

Tomatoes, cucumbers, meat (AT), rapeseed oil, spices

Product Categories

Inside the production

Food Quality & Safety

FELIX ensures high hygiene standards and product safety, works without preservatives and flavour enhancers and makes raw materials traceable. Quality assurance follows the United Nations sustainability goals in the areas of nutrition, food safety, sourcing and environment.

Company History

1. 1962

   Bottling of the first FELIX ketchup in Mattersburg; company name derived from founder Herbert Felix

2. 1967

   FELIX baby food added to the range

3. 1969

   Innovative presentation in the supermarket

4. 1982

   FELIX ketchup for the first time in a plastic bottle

5. 1992

   Austrian Marketing Award for the slogan "Sie müssen nicht FELIX heißen, um FELIX zu lieben!" ("You don't have to be called FELIX to love FELIX!")

6. 1998

   FELIX ketchup without preservatives

7. 2003

   Yellow tomato ketchup

8. 2006

   First ketchup without added sugar

9. 2007

   Launch of FELIX Pur organic ketchup

10. 2011

    Introduction of the Höllenfeuer product series

11. 2013

    Launch of Pur organic ketchup in elegant packaging

12. 2014

    Patented FELIX freshness closure with ring technology; organic ketchup with less sugar and salt

13. 2015

    Long-term partnership with the Austrian Federal Fire Brigade Association

14. 2018

    60 years of FELIX products; Thomas Morgenstern becomes brand ambassador

15. 2019

    First sugo without added sugar

16. 2020

    100 % meat from Austria in sugos, ready meals & soups; fire brigade youth funding pot

17. 2021

    FELIX ketchup in the glass bottle returns to the market.