Lamex acquires German fruit and veg sales company
Lamex Food Group, one of the world’s largest privately owned food trading companies, has acquired German frozen food company Horns for an undisclosed sum.
Established in 1990, Horns supplies frozen fruit and vegetables from trusted global suppliers into the German food processing sector and has worked in partnership with Lamex for the past 10 years.
The new business will be known at Lamex Horns and will be headed by Kristian Horns who has been with the Horns GmbH since 2009 and MD since 2014.
Acquisition of the Horns business will enable Lamex to expand further into the German food processing market, supplying frozen produce from its own network of first-class certified suppliers. These include the processing facilities of Alterra in Greece (yellow fruits and vegetables) and Mondi Lamex in Serbia (raspberries, blackberries and sour cherries). Lamex has significant investments in both companies.
Headquartered in the UK and recognised by The Sunday Times as a Top 100 private UK company, Lamex has 21 offices in 14 countries and has annual sales in excess of £1.17 billion. Lamex Food Group specialises trading in the core commodities of honey, fruit and vegetables, meat and poultry, juice and purees, and dairy for the global food manufacturing and foodservice industries.