The Hamburg-based Stern-Wywiol Gruppe achieved a record sales figure of 444 million EUR in 2015 – resulting in 12 percent growth for the family business.

The number of employees in Germany and abroad rose to nearly 1,000.

It is planned to continue this positive development in the growing international market for food and feed ingredients with investments of 25 million EUR in the next two years.

The Stern-Wywiol Gruppe comprises eleven independent specialist firms in Germany which develop, produce and market functional ingredients for the production of food and feed, including Hydrosol, Mühlenchemie, SternMaid, SternVitamin, Sternchemie, SternEnzym, HERZA Schokolade and Berg+Schmidt.