Wasgau Produktions & Handels AG

About Wasgau Produktions & Handels AG

Wasgau Produktions & Handels AG (styled WASGAU), headquartered in Pirmasens, is a food retail and wholesale company with affiliated production operations. The company operates 71 grocery markets in Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Baden-Württemberg as well as six C+C cash-and-carry wholesale markets of Wasgau C+C Großhandel GmbH, which also supplies commercial bulk customers. Meat and sausage products are manufactured at Wasgau Metzgerei GmbH, and bakery products are produced at Wasgau Bäckerei & Konditorei GmbH; both product lines are distributed through the company's own retail and wholesale channels. In addition, the parent company provides central administrative and logistics services for the group. The company was founded in Pirmasens in 1925 as a purchasing cooperative of 19 grocers; in 1989 it was converted into an AG (public limited company), and in 1994 it went public.

Site

Pirmasens

Processes

Retail (grocery markets), Wholesale (C+C cash-and-carry wholesale markets, supply of commercial bulk customers), Own production: butchery (meat and sausage products), Own production: bakery & confectionery (bakery products), Central administrative and logistics services

Founded

1925

Industries

Food retail, Food wholesale, Food production (butchery, bakery/confectionery)

1. 01

   Procurement of goods or own production (butchery, bakery & confectionery)

2. 02

   Central logistics and administration

3. 03

   Retail via around 70 WASGAU consumer markets

4. 04

   Wholesale via six C+C cash-and-carry wholesale markets and supply of commercial

Locations

Inside the production

History

1. 1925

   Founded in Pirmasens by 19 grocers as a purchasing cooperative of grocers; affiliation with Rewe. Through mergers with other regional purchasing cooperatives, Rewe Westpfalz emerged by the 1960s and later Rewe Südwest.

2. 1989

   Change of legal form from cooperative (eG) to AG and renaming to Südwestkauf AG; separation from Rewe, sourcing of goods from Markant (Switzerland) and rebranding of the company's own markets to Markant.

3. 1994

   Renaming to Markant Südwest AG and stock market listing; later renamed again to Wasgau Produktions & Handels AG.