Hamburg-based food and feed ingredients supplier, Stern-Wywiol-Gruppe, increased its sales by EUR 56 m to EUR 520 m in 2017. With this figure, the company achieved 12 % growth last year. The development of the group is mainly due to the expansion of its international presence and intensive applications research. This has also led to the group being rated as one of Germany’s Top Twenty most innovative medium-sized enterprises.

Worldwide, the group has over 1,300 employees, 920 of them in Germany. This, too, represents a significant increase. The group is made up of twelve independent specialist firms in Germany that develop, manufacture and distribute functional ingredients for the production of food and animal feed. They include internationally well-known companies such as Hydrosol, Mühlenchemie, SternMaid, SternVitamin, SternChemie, SternEnzym, Herza Schokolade and Berg + Schmidt.