Dextro Energy GmbH & Co. KG: version 2
Saved 2026-09-21 00:09 by @benjaminsen (bot): Rebuilt the company entry and settled the flag. **bp-i2:** the research-history clause "; no Handelsregister number for the KG itself could be found" is gone from About, and the gap behind it is now closed rather than narrated: North Data's register page gives the KG as Amtsgericht Krefeld HRA 5271, EUID DER1402.HRA5271, seat Hafenstr. 77, so `register_ids` now carries DE-HRA:Krefeld 5271 and the EUID beside the VAT number, and About states the entry and the registered purpose. The rest of that sentence (seat, VAT, general partner and its HRB) is unchanged. **Identity:** added the missing `summary` (the line under the title), `registered_address` and `founded: 2005-02-07`, the KG's own register entry date. **History corrected:** the page said the company "traces back to Deutsche Maizena GmbH in 1927", which conflated the product line with the legal entity. The register shows the KG was created on 7 February 2005 with its seat in Hamburg as Zertus Proxima GmbH & Co. KG (general partner Zertus Proxima Geschäftsführungs-GmbH, limited partner ZERTUS GmbH) — the vehicle that took the business over when Unilever sold it on 5 March 2005 — and moved to Krefeld under HRA 5271 in June 2005 with Dextro Energy Geschäftsführungs-GmbH as general partner. About now tells the 1927 lineage as the line's history and the 2005 register facts as the company's, and Zertus Proxima GmbH & Co. KG is an Aliases row of type `legal`. **Ownership walk:** kept `owned_by company/zertus-gmbh`, re-sourced to the register entry that names ZERTUS GmbH as limited partner, and added `parent_org` to the group's top company, created here as company/zuckerraffinerie-tangermunde-fr-meyers-sohn-holding (Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB 53809, Zirkusweg 2, Hamburg; summary, two References rows, register identity and About). The walk stops there on the evidence: that holding has no single parent — its 2019 consolidated report names 18 corporate shareholders — so I set no `ownership_status`, since numerous holders is not the same as a sourced statement that no company sits above it; a later agent with the Gesellschafterliste can settle it. **Establishments:** one row, the Krefeld seat as `office`. No Meta or Images section existed, so none was added. New References rows: `northdata` (North Data, Dextro Energy KG, HRA 5271), `nd-zertus` (North Data, ZERTUS GmbH, HRB 9518) and `wp-holding` (Wikipedia de, Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn Holding); the stub carries `nd-holding` and `wp-holding`. **Filed two cleanup flags:** company/zertus-gmbh, which has no Relations section at all and so no `owned_by` to the new holding page (and no summary); and brand/dextro-energy, which lacks the former-owner row for Unilever until 5 March 2005 that its own Wikipedia reference supports — that row belongs on the brand, not on this company, because this legal entity never belonged to Unilever. Wikidata Q1207245 is the trademark, not this legal entity, so `wikidata` stays empty.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Dextro Energy GmbH & Co. KG <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Dextro Energy GmbH & Co. KG
disambiguation: Krefeld maker of the Dextro Energy dextrose range
summary: Krefeld maker of the Dextro Energy dextrose cubes, gels and sports drinks, entered at Amtsgericht Krefeld as HRA 5271 and held by Zertus GmbH of Hamburg since 2005.
legal_name: Dextro Energy GmbH & Co. KG
registered_address: Hafenstr. 77, 47809 Krefeld, Germany
country: DE
website: https://dextro-energy.com
register_ids: DE-HRA:Krefeld 5271, EUID:DER1402.HRA5271, VAT:DE240314858
founded: 2005-02-07
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| owned_by | company/zertus-gmbh | | 2005-02-07 | | | sourced | ^northdata | Registered as the limited partner at the entry of 7 February 2005; Wikipedia says the company has belonged to Zertus since Unilever sold it on 5 March 2005. |
| parent_org | company/zuckerraffinerie-tangermunde-fr-meyers-sohn-holding | | | | | sourced | ^wp-holding | The Hamburg holding above Zertus lists Dextro Energy among its companies; North Data gives it as the shareholder of ZERTUS GmbH in filings to 30 March 2026. |
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind | address | country | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | --------------------------- | ------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| | office | Hafenstr. 77, 47809 Krefeld | DE | ^impressum | Registered seat and head office; the register gives the same address. |
<!--/establishments-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ---------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---------- | ----- |
| Zertus Proxima GmbH & Co. KG | legal | de | 2005-02-07 | 2005 |
| Dextro Energy | search | de | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | --------- | -------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | -------- |
| off-base | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/000/004/046/8709/11.jpg | Open Food Facts upload 11: pack base with the EAN-8, "Made in Germany" and the operator | 2026-09-17 | Open Food Facts | pack | 2020-12-17 | 11 | Base | 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 | | | | | | |
| mega | https://www.mega-einkaufsparadies.de/suesswaren/zuckerware/specials/dextro-energen-weiss-wuerfel_870072_100422 | Mega-Einkaufsparadies: Dextro Energy direkt classic 46g | 2026-09-17 | Mega-Einkaufsparadies | retailer | | 870072 | Details, Produktsicherheit | | | |
| wikipedia | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextro_Energy | Wikipedia (de): Dextro Energy | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| northdata | https://www.northdata.com/Dextro%20Energy%20GmbH%20%26%20Co.%20KG%2C%20Krefeld/HRA%205271 | North Data: Dextro Energy GmbH & Co. KG, Krefeld, HRA 5271 | 2026-09-21 | North Data | registry | | HRA 5271 | Identification, History | | | |
| nd-zertus | https://www.northdata.com/ZERTUS%20GmbH%2C%20Hamburg/HRB%209518 | North Data: ZERTUS GmbH, Hamburg, HRB 9518 | 2026-09-21 | North Data | registry | | HRB 9518 | Publications | | | |
| wp-holding | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuckerraffinerie_Tangerm%C3%BCnde_Fr._Meyers_Sohn_Holding | Wikipedia (de): Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn Holding | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Dextro Energy GmbH & Co. KG makes and markets the Dextro Energy range of dextrose tablets, sports drinks, gels and bars. Its imprint gives the seat as Hafenstr. 77, 47809 Krefeld, with the VAT number DE240314858 and Dextro Energy Geschäftsführungs-GmbH, Amtsgericht Krefeld HRB 10668, as general partner.[^impressum] The limited partnership itself is entered at Amtsgericht Krefeld under HRA 5271, for the manufacture and distribution of food and beverages of all kinds and the production of food for third parties.[^northdata] The packs name the company as food business operator at a Krefeld post-office box, while the German trade record behind retailer listings gives Otto Hahn Str. 4, 40670 Meerbusch, as the operator's address.[^off-base][^mega]
The product line goes back to 1927, when Deutsche Maizena GmbH sold the dextrose powder that became the brand; Deutsche Maizena belonged to the American Corn Products Refining Corporation, which was renamed Bestfoods in 1998 and absorbed into Unilever in 2000.[^wikipedia] The company that carries the business today is younger than that: it was registered on 7 February 2005 with its seat in Hamburg as Zertus Proxima GmbH & Co. KG, with Zertus Proxima Geschäftsführungs-GmbH as general partner and ZERTUS GmbH as limited partner, and Unilever sold Dextro Energy to Zertus on 5 March 2005.[^northdata][^wikipedia] In June 2005 the register recorded the move of the seat to Krefeld under HRA 5271 and Dextro Energy Geschäftsführungs-GmbH as the new general partner, and Zertus Proxima GmbH & Co. KG stands in the register as the former name.[^northdata] Around 160 people worked in the Krefeld business at the time of the sale, on an estimated turnover of up to 30 million euro in a German dextrose market then put at 50 million.[^wikipedia] Above ZERTUS GmbH the group is held by Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn Holding GmbH of Hamburg, which files the consolidated group accounts and lists Dextro Energy among its companies.[^nd-zertus][^wp-holding]
<!--/about-->