Germany: Bestmalz AG agrees to cooperation with two more partners

Bestmalz AG announced on July 12 that Heine Malz and Malzfabrik Langkopf have become members of the Bestmalz group of companies.

The market for brewing malt and brewing wheat has seriously changed in recent years for the malt industry, Bestmalz said. Increasing globalization and consolidation within the brewing industry has also forced the supply industry to adapt its own structures to be able to fulfill the wishes and demands of the breweries even better and with optimized logistics in the future beyond global supplying of all locations.

This is why the Palatia Malz GmbH and Malzfabrik Hoepfner GmbH & Co. KG companies founded BESTMALZ AG (www.bestmalz.com) in 2001. In addition to the entire sales activity for malt, BESTMALZ has also taken on the responsibility for the areas of quality management, logistic and technical support for the partners.

This cooperation was expanded on July 12. The Heine Malz GmbH and Malzfabrik Langkopf GmbH in Peine have joined the Bestmalz AG. Beginning January 2006, all sales activities will be performed by Bestmalz. Volker Riechers has been appointed to the management board of Bestmalz AG where he joins the current board members, Wolfgang Nusselt and Martin Goehler.

The news means that the Bestmalz group will have a malt capacity of approximately 200,000 tons and a total of five malting locations in Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wuerttemberg.

With the motto �More than simply the best malt� Bestmalz � true to its name � has gained an excellent image in recent years regionally, nationally and internationally, reflecting quality, service and reliability in the brewing industry.

Of course, this will not only be continued; activities in all areas will be intensified and increasingly expanded in the future.