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- established year : 1927
- Phone : 0049865170040
- Fax : 0049865170041199
- website : https://bergbauernmilch.de/en
- E-mail : info@molkerei-bgl.de
- Address : Hockerfeld 5-8 83451 Piding Germany
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About us :
The Berchtesgadener Land dairy was founded in 1927 by 54 farmers in the region around Bad Reichenhall as an agricultural processing cooperative, who together delivered only 700 liters of milk per day, which corresponds to a little over 250,000 liters per year. In addition to the dairy, the subsidiary Molkerei-Vertrieb Piding eG was founded in 1964. The dairy merged with the Chiemgau dair ...
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About us :
The Berchtesgadener Land dairy was founded in 1927 by 54 farmers in the region around Bad Reichenhall as an agricultural processing cooperative, who together delivered only 700 liters of milk per day, which corresponds to a little over 250,000 liters per year. In addition to the dairy, the subsidiary Molkerei-Vertrieb Piding eG was founded in 1964. The dairy merged with the Chiemgau dairy in Truchtlaching in 1976. Since then, the cooperative has been called Milchwerke Berchtesgadener Land Chiemgau eG, while the products are sold under the brand name "Berchtesgadener Land". The company's headquarters and only location that was expanded in 1990 and 1996 has been in Piding since 1986. Since 1973, the company has been the first dairy in Bavaria to process "organic milk". In 1998 ten agricultural businesses from Schleching joined the Demeter cultivation association, as the dairy agreed to purchase the milk produced in accordance with Demeter conditions with an organic surcharge. In 2006, 1,825 farms delivered their milk to the cooperative, 296 of which were organic. During the milk strike in 2008, the dairy was the first to raise the price in June to the 43 cents per liter demanded by farmers. Although the company had to cut the price back in August, it nonetheless remained at the top of the German dairies. According to Bayerischer Rundfunk, the dairy paid the highest purchase price in Germany in 2016 at 40 cents. In addition to the more than 400 organic farmers, all around 1400 conventional member farms of the cooperative have now committed to feed the cows without genetic engineering with plants from the company's milk catchment area in the traditional way. In January 2010, the dairy’s organic milk products were the first company in Germany to be certified according to the Naturland Fair guidelines. The corresponding products have since been labeled with the Naturland Fair label. When the average milk price received by producers fell from 40.22 to just 28.78 cents per liter within 18 months by August 2015, the dairy continued to pay 38 cents. As a result, around 800 farms applied for the company, which, however, only served around 1% of the total milk market. In 2016, the Piding dairy sales department was renamed Frischdienst Berchtesgadener Land Chiemgau eG. This is located on the dairy premises. He supplies bulk consumers between Inn and Salzach, Berchtesgaden and Altötting as well as in the neighboring Salzburger Land with his complete range of 1,600 products. Conversely, farmers from Austria increasingly deliver their milk to Piding because they get a higher price there 1200 m above sea level, the construction of our own power plant for electricity and steam supply began in 2015 and was to go into operation at the end of 2016. The construction costs were estimated at 14 million euros. The expansion of the administration building and a new milk dispensing hall were also under construction. Since 2017, the cooperative has been paying the affiliated companies an “animal welfare and grazing bonus”. According to the company, canteens from BMW, VW and Audi as well as Allianz insurance in Munich were acquired as new customers, and the drugstore chain dm was acquired as a new customer of the year 2015. In 2016 the cooperative received the German Sustainability Award, among the five best in the category “Germany's most sustainable medium-sized company 2016.” In autumn 2017, the cooperative was the first large dairy in Germany to include a glyphosate ban in the conditions for its milk suppliers.
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