HassiaGruppe is moving its Rapp’s Kelterei brand’s juice production to its parent company’s German spring water site in Bad Vilbel.
The business is moving its juice production from its manufacturing site in Karben, around 10km north of Bad Vilbel. Production and bottling of the Rapp’s Kelterei juice brand has taken place in Karben since 1996.
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HassiaGruppe’s parent company, Hassia Mineralquellen, is headquartered and produces its namesake bottled water brand in Bad Vilbel.
“By outsourcing the production and logistics areas to the parent company Hassia Mineralquellen, important synergies can be realised, processes optimised and plant utilisation significantly increased,” HassiaGruppe managing partner Dirk Hinkel said in a statement.
“This makes it possible to economically represent important future investments in new, efficient and resource-saving filling technologies.”
Hinkel added: “The economically challenging conditions of recent years and in the future require that we regularly review all processes within our company and reorganise them if necessary.”
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By GlobalDataHassiaGruppe said it is also relocating the marketing and sales teams of its subsidiary Rapp’s Kelterei to the Bad Vilbel site.
Both the production and sales teams are expected to have transitioned to Bad Vilbel by the second half of 2025.
“The works council of Rapp’s Kelterei was closely involved in the considerations for the restructuring of the company,” a spokesperson for HassiaGruppe said.
“In constructive discussions, all questions relating to the planned operational changes were resolved and a social plan was agreed, whereby the vast majority of jobs at the subsidiary Rapp’s were retained within the HassiaGruppe,” they added.
HassiaGruppe has also announced that its Höhl winery located in the town of Hochstadt, Germany, would be “modernised” as a site for the additional production of apple wine.
The group’s parent company, the privately owned Hassia Mineralquellen, was founded in Germany in 1864. Its subsidiaries include Lichtenauer, Bionade, Glashäger, Rapp’s Kelterei and Thüringer Waldquell.
