Best quality for satisfied customers

For our professional customers from the food service, industry and trade, we are the leading specialist for non-chilled long life dairy products. From standard products such as UHT milk and powdered milk, which we export worldwide, right up to refined cream and dessert specialities. 

Due to our state-of-the-art processing and filling technology, we are in a position to manufacture basic products very efficiently at an excellent quality, and in large quantities. Furthermore, frischli offers innovative convenience products for the food service and food manufacturers.

With a great deal of technological expertise, we create tailor-made solutions Europe-wide, which are optimally adapted to the requirements of our customers. Whether it is product solutions for the perfect use in the professional kitchen, or as a customised complete service in the industrial or co-manufacturing sector.

For retail, we have our fresh range with our traditional brand Leckermäulchen. Therefore, we know how important it is, to deliver the highest quality every day, especially with dairy products.

To guarantee this, regular, strict audits are carried out in all factories, and for all areas, in accordance with the relevant quality, environmental and social standards. So, a certification in accordance with IFS is also a given for us, and for many areas we also offer Kosher and Halal qualities. Please find our original certifications listed in den main menu in the section "downloads".

Each of our 1,000 milk producers is also obliged to ensure sustainable production, and certified in accordance with the QM-Milch quality management system. So, we ensure the highest product quality, from production to use, and document this in a comprehensive sustainability concept. For a successful future together.
 

History

1901

Hermann Schäkel (1868-1925) founds the Friller dairy. This is followed by 8 further dairies from 1906 to 1915, of which the central dairy in Rehburg is taken over by H. Holtdorf who later became his son-in-law.

1904

Wilhelm Winkelmann buys the Rodewald dairy. The Hagen dairy is added later.

1969/70

Karl Schäkel integrates the dairies in Frille and Liebenau into the frischli Milchwerke Holtorf Schäkel KG Rehburg, whereby both plants are closed. Rehburg and Wietzen are the two main sites from now on. The employees from Frille and Liebenau relocate to the two plants. Karl Schäkel acts as Managing Director for the area of sales, marketing and export. From 1987, Dieter Winkelmann acts as the Managing Director in Rehburg, in the area of technology and production. The dairy in Hagen is shut down a short time later.

1973/74

aseptic packaging is introduced at frischli. The range grows in the course of the next few years, and is supplemented by milk mixture drinks, UHT whipped cream, “Creme frischli”, coffee cream, cooking cream, and “Creme Double 45%”. The company changes from a production-oriented company to a market-oriented one.

1979

Leckermäulchen appears on the East German market for the first time. Leckermäulchen is manufactured in two flavours; vanilla, and when vanilla is used up, lemon.

1990

frischli builds a new plant in Weißenfels (Saxony-Anhalt), in cooperation with the farmers in the region, and therefore expands the sales area to the new federal states.

1993

the Rodewald dairy (Winkelmann) is shut down, and the majority of employees are taken on by Rehburg.

1996

in agreement with the farmers, frischli takes on the Huber dairy in Eggenfelden (Bavaria), which specialises in coffee cream. Eggenfelden is one of the biggest coffee cream producers in Europe, even today.

2001

First aseptic bucket line for food service desserts in Europe

2001 - 2006

Takeover of the Dingolfing, Steyerberg, Thedinghausen and Gifhorn dairies

2010/11

New construction of production plant for roller-dried whole milk powder in Eggenfelden

2015

Commissioning of newly constructed milk drying plant in Rehburg

2017

Sales cooperation with the Wiesehoff dairy, the regional fresh milk brand from the Münsterland region with milk, cream, yoghurt and dessert. Supplied by about 135 selected milk producers in the region for top quality.

2018

Centralisation of industrial production at the Weißenfels plant; expansion of the industrial unit as a strategic market segment for frischli.

2019

Early in the year production starts after the expansion of cream portion production in Eggenfelden in 2018. The filling capacity was increased from about 1.8 billion cups a year to roughly 3 billion cups a year thanks to the expansion and partial replacement of systems.

2021

Re-organisation of the executive board: Hans Holtorf and Lars Schäkel leave their positions as managing directors and join the supervisory board. Markus Kraus becomes the first external managing director and is in charge of the commercial unit and sales, Timo Winkelmann continues to lead the Technology and Production unit.

2020 - 2022

The Corona pandemic strikes a severe blow to the food service market, which is strategically important for frischli, leading to losses of sales and earnings. Owing to various measures to increase resilience implemented in the 2019 strategy project, the company is able to significantly mitigate the economic consequences. Thanks to good crisis management and the committed and disciplined cooperation of the entire frischli team, major outages and outbreaks of the disease in the plants are averted. One of the measures introduced is the option of working from home (which is maintained after the pandemic).

2022 - 2023

Expansion of roller-dried whole milk production in Eggenfelden from two to four rollers to increase sales. The cooperation with industrial customers and the processing of different raw material qualities lead to a higher level of refinement.

2023

Refurbishment of the UHT milk production systems in Weißenfels and Rehburg with total investments of just over 20 million Euro. Takeover of the brand Gastro including sales in the food service segment, increasing the market significance of the Schöppingen location and allowing it to increase its utilisation rate.

2023/24

Entry into the segment of oat-based milk alternatives: Establishment of an oat-based food service range; construction of an oat-based production unit at the Rehburg plant.