Dextro Energy: version 1
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| 1 | 1 | # Dextro Energy <!--brand--> | |
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ## Identity <!--identity--> | |
| 4 | 4 | name: Dextro Energy | |
| 5 | 5 | disambiguation: German dextrose and sports-nutrition brand | |
| 6 | + | summary: German dextrose and sports-nutrition brand, on sale since 1935 as Dextro Energen, held by Dextro Energy GmbH & Co. KG of Krefeld since Unilever sold it in 2005. | |
| 6 | 7 | website: https://dextro-energy.com | |
| 7 | 8 | founded: 1935 | |
| 8 | 9 | <!--/identity--> | |
| 9 | 10 | ||
| 10 | 11 | ## Relations <!--relations--> | |
| 11 | − | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 12 | − | | -------- | -------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 13 | − | | owned_by | company/dextro-energy-gmbh-co-kg | global | | | | sourced | ^wikipedia | Wikipedia: the products under the brand are produced and marketed by the company. | | |
| 12 | + | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 13 | + | | -------- | -------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | |
| 14 | + | | owned_by | company/dextro-energy-gmbh-co-kg | global | 2005-03-05 | | | sourced | ^wikipedia | Wikipedia: the products under the brand are produced and marketed by the company, which has belonged to Zertus since the sale of 5 March 2005. | | |
| 15 | + | | owned_by | company/unilever | global | 2000 | 2005-03-05 | true | sourced | ^wikipedia | Unilever took in Bestfoods, the parent of Deutsche Maizena, in 2000 and sold the Dextro Energy business to Zertus on 5 March 2005; Markenlexikon agrees on the Unilever years. | | |
| 14 | 16 | <!--/relations--> | |
| 15 | 17 | ||
| 16 | 18 | ## Aliases <!--aliases--> | |
| 17 | 19 | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 18 | 20 | | -------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | | |
| 19 | 21 | | Dextro Energen | name | de | 1935 | 2002 | | |
| 20 | − | | Dextropur | search | de | | | | |
| 22 | + | | Dextropur | search | de | 1929 | | | |
| 21 | 23 | <!--/aliases--> | |
| 22 | 24 | ||
| 23 | 25 | ## References <!--references--> | |
| 24 | − | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 25 | − | | --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | -------- | | |
| 26 | − | | off-front | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/000/004/046/8709/17.jpg | Open Food Facts upload 17: front of the current pack | 2026-09-17 | Open Food Facts | pack | 2024-05-18 | 17 | Front | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | | | |
| 27 | − | | impressum | https://dextro-energy.com/pages/impressum | Dextro Energy: Impressum | 2026-09-17 | Dextro Energy GmbH & Co. KG | manufacturer | | | | | | | | |
| 28 | − | | wikipedia | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextro_Energy | Wikipedia (de): Dextro Energy | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | | | |
| 26 | + | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 27 | + | | ------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | -------- | | |
| 28 | + | | off-front | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/000/004/046/8709/17.jpg | Open Food Facts upload 17: front of the current pack | 2026-09-17 | Open Food Facts | pack | 2024-05-18 | 17 | Front | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | | | |
| 29 | + | | impressum | https://dextro-energy.com/pages/impressum | Dextro Energy: Impressum | 2026-09-21 | Dextro Energy GmbH & Co. KG | manufacturer | | | | | | | | |
| 30 | + | | wikipedia | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextro_Energy | Wikipedia (de): Dextro Energy | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | | | |
| 31 | + | | markenlexikon | https://www.brandslex.de/markenlexikon/cover/d/markenlexikon-dextro-energy | Markenlexikon: Dextro Energy | 2026-09-21 | Brandslex (Toralf Czartowski) | publication | | | | | | | | |
| 32 | + | | lto | https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/bgh-azizb317-markenschutz-ritter-sport-dextro-energy-form-quadratisch | Legal Tribune Online: BGH bestätigt Markenschutz für Ritter Sport und Dextro Energy | 2026-09-21 | Legal Tribune Online | publication | 2017-10-19 | | | | | | | |
| 29 | 33 | <!--/references--> | |
| 30 | 34 | ||
| 31 | 35 | ## About <!--about--> | |
| 32 | − | Dextro Energy is the German brand under which dextrose tablets, sports nutrition and food supplements are sold; its wordmark is the red block lettering crossed by a yellow arrow that signs the front of every pack.[^off-front] The line began in 1927 as a dextrose powder sold through pharmacies by Deutsche Maizena GmbH, reached the shops in cube form in 1935 as Dextro Energen, and was renamed Dextro Energy in 2002.[^wikipedia] The best-known article remains the cube of eight scored tablets, whose shape is registered as a three-dimensional mark.[^wikipedia] The brand is held by Dextro Energy GmbH & Co. KG of Krefeld, which runs the dextro-energy.com shop.[^impressum] | |
| 36 | + | Dextro Energy is the German brand under which dextrose tablets, sports nutrition and food supplements are sold; its wordmark is the red block lettering crossed by a yellow arrow that signs the front of every pack.[^off-front] The best-known article is the cube of eight scored glucose tablets, and the Federal Court of Justice upheld the registration of that tablet shape as a three-dimensional mark on 18 October 2017.[^lto] Around it the range runs to energy gels, bars, isotonic drinks, chews and electrolyte and salt tablets.[^wikipedia] The brand is held by Dextro Energy GmbH & Co. KG of Krefeld, which runs the dextro-energy.com shop, and has belonged to the Hamburg group Zertus since Unilever sold the business on 5 March 2005.[^impressum][^wikipedia] | |
| 37 | + | ||
| 38 | + | The line began in 1927 with a white dextrose powder sold through pharmacies and drugstores by Deutsche Maizena GmbH, later Deutsche Maizena Werke AG.[^wikipedia][^markenlexikon] Maizena was the German subsidiary of the American Corn Products Refining Company, which became CPC International in 1969 and was renamed Bestfoods in 1998, Markenlexikon giving 1997; Unilever absorbed the group in 2000.[^wikipedia][^markenlexikon] The powder was registered as Dextropur in 1929, after the medical term dextrose purum, and doctors prescribed it as a tonic; the cube form was launched in 1935 as Dextro Energen, and grocery retail followed from 1960.[^wikipedia][^markenlexikon] The pack was marketed as official competition food at the 1936 Berlin and 1972 Munich Olympic Games.[^wikipedia] The name was anglicised to Dextro Energy in 2002, and the Dextro Energy Power Drink, a mix of fruit juice, dextrose, guarana and caffeine, followed in 2003.[^wikipedia][^markenlexikon] On 5 March 2005 Unilever sold the business, around 160 people in Krefeld on an estimated turnover of up to 30 million euro, to Zertus GmbH of Hamburg, and the brand has carried the sports-nutrition range built out since.[^wikipedia] | |
| 33 | 39 | <!--/about--> |
Source of v1
# Dextro Energy <!--brand-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Dextro Energy
disambiguation: German dextrose and sports-nutrition brand
website: https://dextro-energy.com
founded: 1935
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | -------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/dextro-energy-gmbh-co-kg | global | | | | sourced | ^wikipedia | Wikipedia: the products under the brand are produced and marketed by the company. |
<!--/relations-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| -------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Dextro Energen | name | de | 1935 | 2002 |
| Dextropur | search | de | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | -------- |
| off-front | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/000/004/046/8709/17.jpg | Open Food Facts upload 17: front of the current pack | 2026-09-17 | Open Food Facts | pack | 2024-05-18 | 17 | Front | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | |
| impressum | https://dextro-energy.com/pages/impressum | Dextro Energy: Impressum | 2026-09-17 | Dextro Energy GmbH & Co. KG | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| wikipedia | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextro_Energy | Wikipedia (de): Dextro Energy | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Dextro Energy is the German brand under which dextrose tablets, sports nutrition and food supplements are sold; its wordmark is the red block lettering crossed by a yellow arrow that signs the front of every pack.[^off-front] The line began in 1927 as a dextrose powder sold through pharmacies by Deutsche Maizena GmbH, reached the shops in cube form in 1935 as Dextro Energen, and was renamed Dextro Energy in 2002.[^wikipedia] The best-known article remains the cube of eight scored tablets, whose shape is registered as a three-dimensional mark.[^wikipedia] The brand is held by Dextro Energy GmbH & Co. KG of Krefeld, which runs the dextro-energy.com shop.[^impressum]
<!--/about-->