Scroll through the newsletter to read all news articles from July.

On 29 June 2022, seventeen Bavarian food manufacturers presented themselves in Bologna under the leadership of the Minister of State Ms Kaniba. Vion was one of these seventeen manufacturers. The Emilia-Romagna region and its capital Bologna lead the food manufacturing sector in Italy.  

In March this year, we reported on our pilot project as part of our People Matter Operational Leadership Programme on Vionline. Now the first group has successfully completed the year-long training programme, with an in-person celebration on 12 July 2022 in Fulda.

Starting today, Christian Henke takes up the position of Project Lead Workforce Management (WFM).

"Summer Festival of the Society for the Promotion of Labour of the Parliamentary Group for the Middle Classes (PKM)” of the CDU/CSU Bundestag Parliamentary Group may sound a bit unwieldy, but it is traditionally one of the highlights of Berlin's annual political summer. 

Sustainability is a focus topic for Vion. A big part of that is reducing our carbon footprint. There are many projects within Vion to realise this goal. To help support all production sites to reach our common carbon footprint targets, the Energy Team has been created.

It was 1997 when the Food Family brand was born in Germany, then still at A. Moksel in Buchloe, now Vion. Today, 25 years later, it is Vion's internationally most successful and best-known brand for pork and beef.

Since 1 July 2022, Tobias Rathgeber has been taking on additional duties as the Controlling Manager in our Beef Business Unit. In addition to being responsible for reporting and planning in the Business Unit, he is now in charge of the central Controlling Team for Procurement and Sales. Business Intelligence will also be integrated into the new structure led by Tobias.

Due to changes in our organisation and markets, we are making certain adjustments to the responsibilities within Pork Sales Industry.

We would like to inform you that Friedhelm Daalmann, who was responsible for sales to German customers and hams, has retired as of 1 July.

Twice a year, the top 50 managers from the various Vion Business Units come together to discuss their strategic priorities. Are we going in the right direction? Should we change tack? Or do we need a complete strategy overhaul?

On Monday of last week, Vion started to relocate the slaughter of organic pork pigs from De Groene Weg to Apeldoorn. This department was previously located in Groenlo. The reason for this decision is that Vion wants more focus at each location. This will allow Vion to better respond to growing demand from the market. 

Dear colleague,

As you all have read in the Strategy News, the projects related to Pork/Beef NL ERP implementation have been included into a programme. This programme is called UNITED.

The three hundred employees in the fresh produce departments of supermarket chain Nettorama are all employed by Vion. These specialists are in contact with the customer every day and provide tailor-made solutions. Kimberley Leijten and Bianca Kranendonk talk about what they do for Nettorama and what makes their work so pleasant.