Coca-Cola supplies more than 50 different types of beverages in Germany: Classic carbonated soft drinks, reduced-calorie and sugar-free drinks, juices, spritzers, iced teas, sports beverages and various mineral waters. In 2008, the German Coca-Cola organization sold around 3.5 billion liters of its soft drinks. The main brands in Germany are Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, Bonaqa, Apollinaris and Powerade. The Coca-Cola organization employs around 12,000 employees at over 80 locations in Germany. Bottling of Coca-Cola Germany’s branded products takes place at 28 plants.

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With 1,250 employees working at a total of seven locations, the Hassia group is one of the largest supplies of non-alcoholic beverages in Germany. The company supplies around 4,200 customers in the wholesale beverage, food retail and gastronomy sector. 

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Kaindl is a leading worldwide manufacturer of finished wood products and laminate floors. Since its founding more than 100 years ago the Salzburg, Austria based company has developed from a regional working sawmill to one of the top forest products companies in the world, as a result of an uncompromising commitment to quality and an ambition to be remain ahead of the competition. 

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Heineken NV subsidiary Brau Union Österreich AG has achieved an important position among leading Austrian brewing companies, holding a 50% market share. Brau Union's brands include Heineken, Gösser, Zipfer, Kaiser, Puntigamer, Reininghaus, Wieselburger, Schwechater, Edelweiss, Schlossgold and, together with the company's employees, represent its greatest asset. Brau Union views its brands as a guarantee of the entire range of quality and performance that its customers expect. The group’s breweries are located in Falkenstein/Eastern Tyrol, Göss, Puntigam and Schladming/Styria, Kaltenhausen/Salzburg, Schwechat and Wieselburg/Lower Austria and Zipf/Upper Austria.


With a 15% share of the German beer market, the Radeberger Gruppe is currently the country's market leader. The group is part of the Dr. August Oetker KG family business in Bielefeld and a strategic business arm of the Oetker Gruppe. The Radeberger Gruppe considers itself the guardian of German beer culture: The group is committed to regionality and emotionally-charged brands to cultivate the diversity of German beer, and its innovative business concept contributes to advancing the German beer and beverage market.

The Radeberger Gruppe currently operates 14 beer sites across the country. A mineral spring in Selters an der Lahn and the outgoing, popular brand Bionade from Ostheim vor der Rhön are strategic additions to the regional sites. With its unique brand portfolio Radeberger Gruppe clearly reflects this regional positioning. From smooth bitter Radeberger and dry Frisian Jever to Dortmunder Kronen Export, Sion Kölsch, Schlösser Alt, Berliner Pilsner from the capital, Ur-Krostitzer from the Leipzig area, Hessen's Römer Pils, Tucher from Franken, Stuttgarter Hofbräu and Altenmünster Brauer Bier from the Allgäu - this is German beer culture. This is the German beer market.

Since 1888, Dinkelacker beer has been produced in Stuttgart according to the principles of founder Carl Dinkelacker — with the highest standards of quality and freshness, with exquisite ingredients, with great care in production….and with love for the art of brewing. Even today the company cherishes Carl Dinkelacker’s principles and brews its beers by traditional techniques and with the same love of its craft. So that the result will remain the same in the future as it was in the past: masterly.

Of course all Dinkelacker beers correspond to the German purity law. The Company is proud that Dickelacker is the favorite beer for many connoisseurs in Germany.

Kronospan manufactures and distributes wood-based panels. Globally it is the leading manufacturer of:

    Particleboard (PB)
    Medium density fibreboard (MDF)
    Laminate flooring
    UF, MUF and MF resins for wood-based panels and are
    The number one manufacturer of oriented strand board (OSB) in Europe

Kronospan also produces speciality and decorative paper as well as other associated value added products, such as melamine-faced panels, worktops, wall panels, window sills, lacquered HDF and others. Kronospan manufactures wood-based panels at 29 sites and is represented in 25 countries. Kronospan employs over 11,000 people and the total sales are in excess of €3 billion per annum with Emerging Markets representing 55 percent of this amount.

Alpla manufactures plastic packaging solutions such as bottles, preforms, caps and tubes. The company applies technologies such as extrusion blow molding, PET stretch blow molding, injection blow molding, injection molding and tube manufacturing to produce its products. In addition, the company enables in-house production, in which bottles are produced directly at its customers' filling lines. Alpla's products are used to pack beverages, food, beauty care products, home care products, oil and lubricants. In 2010 Alpla had 12.000 employees and 134 plants in 34 countries in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the US and Asia. Alpla's headquarters are in Hard, Austria.