Zertus GmbH: version 3
Saved 2026-09-21 00:34 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled the flag: Wikidata Q196767 is this legal entity, so Identity now carries wikidata: Q196767. Checked it rather than taking the flag's word: the item's GND authority record 3051398-4 (owl:sameAs Q196767) is the corporate body "2002 in Zertus GmbH umbenannt", and GND's succeeding record 1115270397 "Zertus GmbH", established 2002, seat Hamburg, homepage zertus.de, names 3051398-4 as its preceding body — the same rename this page already dates to the Hamburg register entry of 5 July 2002 on HRB 9518. The English sitelink en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zertus opens "Zertus GmbH (until 2002: 'Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn GmbH')"; only the German sitelink goes to the holding's article, which is the item's own conflation and the reason company/zuckerraffinerie-tangermunde-fr-meyers-sohn-holding rightly has no wikidata. Added one References row, gnd (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND 3051398-4, CC0), and one About sentence describing that record, so the identification is defensible on the page and the next reviewer does not move it to the parent. Freshness: re-fetched zertus.de/impressum (HRB 9518, VAT DE118582196, Astraturm Zirkusweg 2), zertus.de/company (the brand list About names is unchanged) and the GLEIF record (legal name ZERTUS GmbH, registeredAs HRB 9518, status ACTIVE, creationDate 1961-07-06T23:00Z, golden copy 2026-09-20) — every fact on the page still holds and founded: 1961-07-07 is confirmed. Added a Wikimedia Commons logo (ZERTUS Logo 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, uploaded as own work by User:Zertus GmbH), the page's first image. Sharpened disambiguation to separate this operating holding from the Tangermünde holding above it, and added a "Zertus" search alias beside "Zertus Group". No Meta section, so nothing to drop. Relations unchanged: owned_by the holding is correct and company/dextro-energy-gmbh-co-kg already points up here, so the walk to the top of the group is complete and nothing needed the cleanup queue.. Current is v4.
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| 1 | 1 | # Zertus GmbH <!--company--> | |
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ## Identity <!--identity--> | |
| 4 | 4 | name: Zertus GmbH | |
| 5 | 5 | disambiguation: Hamburg operating holding of the confectionery and health-food group, HRB 9518, below the Tangermünde holding | |
| 6 | 6 | summary: Hamburg food group holding, Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB 9518, owned by Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn Holding and parent of Dextro Energy, Bio Zentrale and Kinnerton. | |
| 7 | 7 | legal_name: ZERTUS GmbH | |
| 8 | 8 | registered_address: Zirkusweg (Astraturm) 2, 20359 Hamburg, Germany | |
| 9 | 9 | wikidata: Q196767 | |
| 10 | 10 | country: DE | |
| 11 | 11 | website: https://www.zertus.de | |
| 12 | 12 | register_ids: DE-HRB:Hamburg 9518, EUID:DEK1101R.HRB9518, LEI:391200LU6NLR6XGWU030, VAT:DE118582196 | |
| 13 | 13 | founded: 1961-07-07 | |
| 14 | 14 | <!--/identity--> | |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| 16 | 16 | ## Relations <!--relations--> | |
| 17 | 17 | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 18 | 18 | | -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 19 | 19 | | owned_by | company/zuckerraffinerie-tangermunde-fr-meyers-sohn-holding | | | | | sourced | ^nd-zertus | The one known shareholder in the register publications, most recently that of 30 March 2026; the holding sits at the top. | | |
| 20 | 20 | <!--/relations--> | |
| 21 | 21 | ||
| 22 | 22 | ## Establishments <!--establishments--> | |
| 23 | 23 | | mark | kind | address | country | source | note | | |
| 24 | 24 | | ---- | ------ | -------------------------------------- | ------- | --------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 25 | 25 | | | office | Zirkusweg (Astraturm) 2, 20359 Hamburg | DE | ^zertus-imprint | Registered seat and head office; the register and the LEI record agree. | | |
| 26 | 26 | <!--/establishments--> | |
| 27 | 27 | ||
| 28 | 28 | ## Aliases <!--aliases--> | |
| 29 | 29 | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 30 | 30 | | ------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ---------- | | |
| 31 | 31 | | ZERTUS GmbH | legal | de | | | | |
| 32 | 32 | | Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn GmbH | legal | de | | 2002-07-05 | | |
| 33 | 33 | | Zertus Group | search | de | | | | |
| 34 | 34 | | Zertus | search | de | | | | |
| 35 | 35 | <!--/aliases--> | |
| 36 | 36 | ||
| 37 | + | ## Images <!--images--> | |
| 38 | + | | asset | kind | source | licence | attribution | url | accessed | note | provider_entity_id | provider_image_id | source_image_url | download_url | retrieved_at | matched_barcode | match_method | match_confidence | original_width | original_height | stored_width | stored_height | upscaled | | |
| 39 | + | | ----------------- | ---- | ----------------- | ------------ | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | -------------------------- | ------------------ | ----------------- | ---------------- | ------------ | ------------ | --------------- | ------------ | ---------------- | -------------- | --------------- | ------------ | ------------- | -------- | | |
| 40 | + | | logo-db9c7190.jpg | logo | wikimedia-commons | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Zertus GmbH | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AZERTUS_Logo_2020_JPG.jpg | 2026-09-21 | The ZERTUS corporate logo. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 41 | + | <!--/images--> | |
| 42 | + | ||
| 37 | 43 | ## References <!--references--> | |
| 38 | 44 | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 39 | 45 | | -------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------- | ------------ | --------- | -------------------- | ---------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- | | |
| 40 | 46 | | zertus-imprint | https://www.zertus.de/impressum/ | ZERTUS GmbH: Impressum | 2026-09-17 | Zertus GmbH | manufacturer | | | | | | | | |
| 41 | 47 | | zertus-company | https://www.zertus.de/company/ | Zertus: Company | 2026-09-21 | Zertus GmbH | manufacturer | | | | | | | | |
| 42 | 48 | | 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 | Identification, Publications | | | | | |
| 43 | 49 | | gleif | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/391200LU6NLR6XGWU030 | GLEIF LEI record 391200LU6NLR6XGWU030: ZERTUS GmbH | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF | registry | | 391200LU6NLR6XGWU030 | | | | | | |
| 44 | 50 | | wp-zertus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zertus | Wikipedia (en): Zertus | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | | | |
| 45 | 51 | | wikipedia | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextro_Energy | Wikipedia (de): Dextro Energy | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | | | |
| 46 | 52 | | gnd | https://d-nb.info/gnd/3051398-4/about/lds.jsonld | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: GND 3051398-4, Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn | 2026-09-21 | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | registry | | 3051398-4 | | cc0 | | | | |
| 47 | 53 | <!--/references--> | |
| 48 | 54 | ||
| 49 | 55 | ## About <!--about--> | |
| 50 | 56 | Zertus GmbH is the operating holding company of a Hamburg food group, entered at Amtsgericht Hamburg as HRB 9518 and trading under the VAT number DE118582196.[^zertus-imprint] Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn Holding GmbH holds its shares and is named as its shareholder in register publications up to 30 March 2026; the legal entity itself was created on 7 July 1961.[^nd-zertus][^gleif] The group presents itself as a family-led network with roots in 1826 and works in four fields — love brands and food production, distribution, end-to-end services and global growth investments — with companies and holdings that include Dextro Energy, Bio Zentrale, Pulmoll, Mondamin, Kinnerton, Lir Chocolates, Humdinger and Importhaus Wilms.[^zertus-company] | |
| 51 | 57 | ||
| 52 | 58 | The business goes back to the sugar refinery Friedrich Theodor Meyer founded in Tangermünde in 1826; his sons took it over in 1865 as Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn, it exported to England and overseas from 1882 and made chocolates and pralines under the Feodora mark from 1910, and it was the largest refinery in Europe until the end of the Second World War, when the Soviet occupation authorities expropriated and largely dismantled it in 1946.[^wp-zertus] The company was refounded in Hamburg in 1949 and went back to making chocolate, bought the Bremen chocolate maker Hachez in 1987 and sold it again in 2000, and turned itself into a holding company during the 1980s.[^wp-zertus] The change of name from Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn GmbH to ZERTUS GmbH was entered in the Hamburg register on 5 July 2002, with a share capital then of €21.6 million, raised to €22.5 million in 2006.[^nd-zertus] The German National Library's authority record for this company, GND 3051398-4, which the Wikidata item Q196767 gives as the same corporate body, records it as founded in 1826 by Friedrich Theodor Meyer, taken over by his sons in 1865, refounded in Hamburg in 1949 and renamed Zertus GmbH in 2002.[^gnd] It bought Dextro Energy from Unilever on 5 March 2005, when the Krefeld business employed around 160 people,[^wikipedia] and in 2012 acquired the British Zetar Group, which brought Kinnerton Confectionery, Lir Chocolates and Humdinger into the group.[^wp-zertus] The register gives its corporate purpose as the production, processing and distribution of food and beverages, the trade in goods of any kind, and the acquisition and management of shareholdings at home and abroad.[^nd-zertus] | |
| 53 | 59 | <!--/about--> |
Source of v3
# Zertus GmbH <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Zertus GmbH
disambiguation: Hamburg operating holding of the confectionery and health-food group, HRB 9518, below the Tangermünde holding
summary: Hamburg food group holding, Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB 9518, owned by Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn Holding and parent of Dextro Energy, Bio Zentrale and Kinnerton.
legal_name: ZERTUS GmbH
registered_address: Zirkusweg (Astraturm) 2, 20359 Hamburg, Germany
wikidata: Q196767
country: DE
website: https://www.zertus.de
register_ids: DE-HRB:Hamburg 9518, EUID:DEK1101R.HRB9518, LEI:391200LU6NLR6XGWU030, VAT:DE118582196
founded: 1961-07-07
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/zuckerraffinerie-tangermunde-fr-meyers-sohn-holding | | | | | sourced | ^nd-zertus | The one known shareholder in the register publications, most recently that of 30 March 2026; the holding sits at the top. |
<!--/relations-->
## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind | address | country | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | -------------------------------------- | ------- | --------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| | office | Zirkusweg (Astraturm) 2, 20359 Hamburg | DE | ^zertus-imprint | Registered seat and head office; the register and the LEI record agree. |
<!--/establishments-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ---------- |
| ZERTUS GmbH | legal | de | | |
| Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn GmbH | legal | de | | 2002-07-05 |
| Zertus Group | search | de | | |
| Zertus | search | de | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| -------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------- | ------------ | --------- | -------------------- | ---------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- |
| zertus-imprint | https://www.zertus.de/impressum/ | ZERTUS GmbH: Impressum | 2026-09-17 | Zertus GmbH | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| zertus-company | https://www.zertus.de/company/ | Zertus: Company | 2026-09-21 | Zertus GmbH | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| 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 | Identification, Publications | | | |
| gleif | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/391200LU6NLR6XGWU030 | GLEIF LEI record 391200LU6NLR6XGWU030: ZERTUS GmbH | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF | registry | | 391200LU6NLR6XGWU030 | | | | |
| wp-zertus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zertus | Wikipedia (en): Zertus | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| wikipedia | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextro_Energy | Wikipedia (de): Dextro Energy | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| gnd | https://d-nb.info/gnd/3051398-4/about/lds.jsonld | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: GND 3051398-4, Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn | 2026-09-21 | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | registry | | 3051398-4 | | cc0 | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Zertus GmbH is the operating holding company of a Hamburg food group, entered at Amtsgericht Hamburg as HRB 9518 and trading under the VAT number DE118582196.[^zertus-imprint] Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn Holding GmbH holds its shares and is named as its shareholder in register publications up to 30 March 2026; the legal entity itself was created on 7 July 1961.[^nd-zertus][^gleif] The group presents itself as a family-led network with roots in 1826 and works in four fields — love brands and food production, distribution, end-to-end services and global growth investments — with companies and holdings that include Dextro Energy, Bio Zentrale, Pulmoll, Mondamin, Kinnerton, Lir Chocolates, Humdinger and Importhaus Wilms.[^zertus-company]
The business goes back to the sugar refinery Friedrich Theodor Meyer founded in Tangermünde in 1826; his sons took it over in 1865 as Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn, it exported to England and overseas from 1882 and made chocolates and pralines under the Feodora mark from 1910, and it was the largest refinery in Europe until the end of the Second World War, when the Soviet occupation authorities expropriated and largely dismantled it in 1946.[^wp-zertus] The company was refounded in Hamburg in 1949 and went back to making chocolate, bought the Bremen chocolate maker Hachez in 1987 and sold it again in 2000, and turned itself into a holding company during the 1980s.[^wp-zertus] The change of name from Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn GmbH to ZERTUS GmbH was entered in the Hamburg register on 5 July 2002, with a share capital then of €21.6 million, raised to €22.5 million in 2006.[^nd-zertus] The German National Library's authority record for this company, GND 3051398-4, which the Wikidata item Q196767 gives as the same corporate body, records it as founded in 1826 by Friedrich Theodor Meyer, taken over by his sons in 1865, refounded in Hamburg in 1949 and renamed Zertus GmbH in 2002.[^gnd] It bought Dextro Energy from Unilever on 5 March 2005, when the Krefeld business employed around 160 people,[^wikipedia] and in 2012 acquired the British Zetar Group, which brought Kinnerton Confectionery, Lir Chocolates and Humdinger into the group.[^wp-zertus] The register gives its corporate purpose as the production, processing and distribution of food and beverages, the trade in goods of any kind, and the acquisition and management of shareholdings at home and abroad.[^nd-zertus]
<!--/about-->