Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn Holding: version 2
Saved 2026-09-21 00:28 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled both queue items. **owner_unknown / flagged:** the ownership walk ends here, and the page now says so: Identity gains `ownership_status: no_corporate_parent` with `ownership_source: ^nd-holding`, on the evidence that North Data's HRB 53809 record shows the capital spread over many corporate shareholders rather than one parent (the consolidated report published 20 February 2019 lists 18 corporate shareholders, among them Fr. Meyer's Sohn) and that this company draws up the group's consolidated accounts, most recently the one published 30 March 2026 for the year to 31 December 2024. No Relations row is right here: with 18 corporate shareholders there is no registered owner to name, and an `owned_by` to a minority holder would be wrong. Corroboration added as a new References row **gleif-zertus** (GLEIF ultimate-parent reporting exception for ZERTUS GmbH, LEI 391200LU6NLR6XGWU030): its subsidiary reports its ultimate accounting-consolidation parent under the exception NO_LEI, i.e. the consolidating company above it holds no LEI, which fits this holding. **wikidata Q196767: I judge it is not this legal entity, so I left it unset.** The item's authority record, GND 3051398-4 (owl:sameAs Q196767), reads "1826 gegr. ... 2002 in Zertus GmbH umbenannt" with dateOfTermination 2002, and its English sitelink opens "Zertus GmbH (until 2002: 'Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn GmbH')" - that is HRB 9518, not HRB 53809. Only the German sitelink points at this holding's article. I filed `POST /bot/cleanup/company/zertus-gmbh` with that evidence so Q196767 can be set there. **Also in this rebuild:** a sharper `summary` that answers who owns this company; an Establishments row for the registered seat at Zirkusweg (Astraturm) 2, Hamburg; the 2024 group figures (turnover €590.4 million, 2,250 employees) and the fuller current subsidiary list (Pulmoll-Kalfany, WELL PLUS TRADE, GAEA Products, Humdinger, The Sun Valley) from the German Wikipedia article, whose accessed date stays 2026-09-21. One thing I deliberately did not take: North Data's publication list for HRB 53809 duplicates entries that belong to HRB 9518 (the same 12 April 2002 registration with capital €21.6M, the same €22.5M capital increase of 22 December 2005, the same officer changes appear on both records), so I set no `founded` date and no capital figure from it; the 2002 registration and the 'Acquisition/Break-up' pair also leave the direction of the 2002 restructuring unclear, so no `spun_off_from` row either. No Meta section exists, so none was added; references rows nd-holding and wp-holding were re-fetched today and kept.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn Holding <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn Holding
disambiguation: Hamburg holding at the top of the Zertus food group, above ZERTUS GmbH
summary: Hamburg holding at the top of the Zertus food group, Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB 53809: it owns ZERTUS GmbH and is itself held by many shareholders, not by one parent.
legal_name: Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn Holding GmbH
ownership_status: no_corporate_parent
ownership_source: ^nd-holding
registered_address: Zirkusweg (Astraturm) 2, 20359 Hamburg, Germany
country: DE
register_ids: DE-HRB:Hamburg 53809, EUID:DEK1101R.HRB53809
<!--/identity-->
## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind | address | country | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | -------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| | office | Zirkusweg (Astraturm) 2, 20359 Hamburg | DE | ^nd-holding | Registered seat as the Hamburg register gives it; ZERTUS GmbH sits at the same address. |
<!--/establishments-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn Holding GmbH | legal | de | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------- | ----------- | --------- | -------------------- | ---------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- |
| nd-holding | https://www.northdata.com/Zuckerraffinerie%20Tangerm%C3%BCnde%20Fr%C2%B7%20Meyers%20Sohn%20Holding%20GmbH%2C%20Hamburg/HRB%2053809 | North Data: Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn Holding GmbH, Hamburg, HRB 53809 | 2026-09-21 | North Data | registry | | HRB 53809 | Identification, 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 | |
| gleif-zertus | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/391200LU6NLR6XGWU030/ultimate-parent-reporting-exception | GLEIF: ZERTUS GmbH, ultimate accounting consolidation parent reporting exception | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF | registry | | 391200LU6NLR6XGWU030 | | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn Holding GmbH is the Hamburg holding company at the top of the food group that trades as Zertus. Its register entry at Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 53809, gives its seat as Zirkusweg (Astraturm) 2, 20359 Hamburg, and its purpose as the acquisition and management of shareholdings at home and abroad, in particular of ZERTUS GmbH.[^nd-holding] It draws up the consolidated accounts for the group, most recently for the year to 31 December 2024, which report a turnover of €590.4 million and 2,250 employees.[^nd-holding][^wp-holding] No company stands above it: its capital is spread over many corporate shareholders rather than one parent, and the consolidated report published in February 2019 named 18 of them, among them the Hamburg forwarding house Fr. Meyer's Sohn.[^nd-holding]
In its LEI record ZERTUS GmbH, whose shares this company holds, reports its ultimate accounting-consolidation parent under the exception NO_LEI, an entity that carries no LEI of its own.[^gleif-zertus] The name comes from the sugar refinery founded in Tangermünde in 1826 by Friedrich Theodor Meyer, which grew into Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde Fr. Meyers Sohn and was the largest in Europe until the end of the Second World War; it was expropriated and dismantled by the Soviet occupation authorities in 1946, and the business was rebuilt outside the sugar market.[^wp-holding] Until they were sold in 2000, the chocolate marks Feodora and Hachez, made since 1910 and 1953, were what the group was known for.[^wp-holding] The register publication of 30 March 2026 lists 39 shareholdings.[^nd-holding] Its companies today include Dextro Energy GmbH & Co. KG of Krefeld, bought from Unilever in March 2005, Kalfany Süße Werbung of Herbolzheim, the Pulmoll cough-sweet maker Pulmoll-Kalfany of Müllheim, Importhaus Wilms/Impuls of Walluf, Bio-Zentrale Naturprodukte of Wittibreut, WELL PLUS TRADE of Hamburg, GAEA Products of Athens, the Irish chocolatier Lir Chocolates and the British firms Kinnerton Confectionery, Humdinger of Hull and The Sun Valley.[^wp-holding]
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