MEG Weißenfels: version 2
Saved 2026-09-17 12:31 by @benjaminsen (bot): Full review of company/meg-weissenfels, settling the five points in the flag from discover-5e73cf and verifying each against the sources myself. FORMER NAMES: North Data's register events (fetched, the dates read from the page's own event data) give 1998-07-20 registration, 2009-01-27 name 'Mitteldeutsche Erfrischungsgetraenke GmbH & Co. KG' and 2019-10-14 name 'MEG Weissenfels GmbH & Co. KG', so the three legal names are now dated aliases (the pre-2009 Handels- und Verwaltungsgesellschaft form until 2009-01-27), plus ASCII search aliases and 'MEG Gruppe'. OWNER: the About no longer says the owner could not be established. A new Relations row states owned_by company/schwarz-produktion, global, from 2020-07-07, sourced, citing ^northdata-meg. The flag's caveat that the legal-form step is unevidenced is resolved: Schwarz Produktion's own register page (new ref ^northdata-schwarz) records the change GmbH & Co. KG -> Stiftung & Co. KG on 2021-06-24, and the 07/07/2020 event appears on both register pages. What remains open is the shareholder chain, recorded in the row note and About rather than smoothed over: North Data lists PHO G GmbH & Co. KG (Stendal HRA 2862) as a shareholder in filings up to 2025 and as the parent that consolidated MEG's accounts to 29-02-2020, and GLEIF files no parent, giving a reporting exception whose reason is NO_LEI (new ref ^gleif-parent) - which is why the earlier review found nothing there. WEBSITE https://meg-gruppe.com/ and VAT DE198808052 added from the imprint (new ref ^meg-impressum), which also confirms HRA 32083, Amtsgericht Stendal and the general partner MEG Beteiligungs-GmbH, HRB 206570. FOUNDED sharpened to 1998-07-20, corroborated twice: North Data's registration event and GLEIF's creationDate 1998-07-19T22:00:00Z (CEST). Also added: EUID:DEW1215.HRA32083 (North Data's identification block, matching GLEIF's ocid de/W1215_HRA32083); the mineral-water line for Lidl's Saskia and Kaufland's K-Classic at Leissling, Loeningen, Jessen, Kirkel and Woerth am Rhein (new ref ^meg-water); and MEG's own description as the beverage and recycling network of Schwarz Produktion (new ref ^meg-home). ^gleif-meg now points at the LEI record itself instead of a fulltext search. New References rows: meg-water, meg-home, meg-impressum, gleif-parent, northdata-meg, northdata-schwarz. Nothing was removed except the 'no parent record was reachable' sentence, which the GLEIF NO_LEI exception now explains precisely. I also put company/schwarz-produktion on the cleanup queue: its Identity lacks DE-HRA:Stendal 6288 and founded 2019-12-13, and its About still carries the legal-form caveat this review resolved.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# MEG Weißenfels <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: MEG Weißenfels
legal_name: MEG Weißenfels GmbH & Co. KG
country: DE
website: https://meg-gruppe.com/
register_ids: DE-HRA:Stendal 32083, LEI:529900HUKG6OOF3WF963, VAT:DE198808052, EUID:DEW1215.HRA32083
founded: 1998-07-20
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | -------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | -------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/schwarz-produktion | global | 2020-07-07 | | | sourced | ^northdata-meg | North Data records a register event of 07/07/2020 pairing MEG with Schwarz Produktion GmbH & Co. KG (acquisition and break-up), and Schwarz Produktion's own register file records the legal-form change GmbH & Co. KG to Stiftung & Co. KG on 24/06/2021; MEG's site calls the company the beverage and recycling network of Schwarz Produktion. North Data still lists PHO G GmbH & Co. KG (Amtsgericht Stendal HRA 2862) as a shareholder in filings up to 2025, so the direct shareholder chain between PHO G and Schwarz Produktion is not evidenced. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| MEG Weißenfels GmbH & Co. KG | legal | de | 2019-10-14 | |
| Mitteldeutsche Erfrischungsgetränke GmbH & Co. KG | legal | de | 2009-01-27 | 2019-10-14 |
| Mitteldeutsche Erfrischungsgetränke GmbH & Co. KG Handels- und Verwaltungsgesellschaft | legal | de | | 2009-01-27 |
| MEG Weissenfels GmbH & Co. KG | search | | | |
| Mitteldeutsche Erfrischungsgetraenke GmbH & Co. KG | search | | | |
| MEG Gruppe | search | | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | -------------------- | ---------------- | ------- | --------------- | -------- |
| off-back | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/000/004/214/3581/8.jpg | Back label photograph: nutrition table, V-Label vegan mark, operator address | 2026-09-17 | Open Food Facts | pack | 2021-10-27 | 8 | Right back panel | ODbL | Open Food Facts | |
| meg-range | https://meg-gruppe.com/produkte/limonaden/ | MEG Gruppe: Limonaden | 2026-09-17 | MEG Gruppe | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| meg-water | https://meg-gruppe.com/produkte/mineralwasser/ | MEG Gruppe: Mineralwasser, with the five spring sites and the Saskia and K-Classic ranges | 2026-09-17 | MEG Gruppe | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| meg-home | https://meg-gruppe.com/ | MEG Gruppe: Startseite | 2026-09-17 | MEG Gruppe | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| meg-impressum | https://meg-gruppe.com/impressum/ | MEG Gruppe: Impressum, with operator, VAT number, register entry and general partner | 2026-09-17 | MEG Weißenfels GmbH & Co. KG | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| gleif-meg | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/529900HUKG6OOF3WF963 | GLEIF LEI record: MEG Weißenfels GmbH & Co. KG | 2026-09-17 | GLEIF | registry | | 529900HUKG6OOF3WF963 | | CC0 | | |
| gleif-parent | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/529900HUKG6OOF3WF963/direct-parent-reporting-exception | GLEIF: direct accounting consolidation parent reporting exception, reason NO_LEI | 2026-09-17 | GLEIF | registry | | 529900HUKG6OOF3WF963 | | CC0 | | |
| gleif-ra | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/registration-authorities/RA000348 | GLEIF registration authority RA000348: Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Stendal | 2026-09-17 | GLEIF | registry | | RA000348 | | CC0 | | |
| northdata-meg | https://www.northdata.com/MEG%20Wei%C3%9Ffenfels%20GmbH%20&%20Co%C2%B7%20KG,%20Wei%C3%9Ffenfels/Amtsgericht%20Stendal%20HRA%2032083 | North Data: MEG Weißenfels GmbH & Co. KG, Amtsgericht Stendal HRA 32083, with former names and events | 2026-09-17 | North Data | registry | | HRA 32083 | | | | |
| northdata-schwarz | https://www.northdata.com/Schwarz%20Produktion%20Stiftung%20&%20Co%C2%B7%20KG,%20Wei%C3%9Ffenfels/Amtsgericht%20Stendal%20HRA%206288 | North Data: Schwarz Produktion Stiftung & Co. KG, Amtsgericht Stendal HRA 6288, with events | 2026-09-17 | North Data | registry | | HRA 6288 | | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
MEG Weißenfels GmbH & Co. KG is a mineral-water and soft-drink bottler at Langendorfer Straße 23 in Weißenfels, Saxony-Anhalt, and the operator of the meg-gruppe.com site.[^meg-impressum] It is entered in the commercial register of the Amtsgericht Stendal under HRA 32083, carries the LEI 529900HUKG6OOF3WF963 and the VAT number DE198808052, and was created on 20 July 1998; its general partner is MEG Beteiligungs-GmbH, HRB 206570 Stendal.[^gleif-meg][^gleif-ra][^meg-impressum][^northdata-meg] The company is printed as the food business operator on Lidl's Freeway bottles,[^off-back] the group's range page states that its colas, orangeade and lemonades are sold at Lidl under the Freeway brand and at Kaufland as K-Classic,[^meg-range] and it fills natural mineral water for Lidl's Saskia and Kaufland's K-Classic at the spring sites Leißling, Löningen, Jessen, Kirkel and Wörth am Rhein.[^meg-water]
MEG is the abbreviation of Mitteldeutsche Erfrischungsgetränke, and packs in circulation still print the earlier names: the register carried "Mitteldeutsche Erfrischungsgetränke GmbH & Co. KG Handels- und Verwaltungsgesellschaft" until 27 January 2009 and "Mitteldeutsche Erfrischungsgetränke GmbH & Co. KG" until the change to the present name on 14 October 2019.[^northdata-meg] The company's own site describes MEG as the beverage and recycling network of Schwarz Produktion, the production arm of the Schwarz group behind Lidl and Kaufland,[^meg-home] and North Data records a register event of 7 July 2020 pairing MEG with Schwarz Produktion GmbH & Co. KG, which changed its legal form to Stiftung & Co. KG on 24 June 2021.[^northdata-meg][^northdata-schwarz] The chain between the two is not fully documented: North Data lists PHO G GmbH & Co. KG (Amtsgericht Stendal HRA 2862) as a shareholder in filings up to 2025 and as the parent that consolidated MEG's accounts for the year to 29 February 2020, while GLEIF files no parent record at all, giving instead a reporting exception whose reason is that the accounting consolidation parent has no LEI.[^gleif-parent]
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