Nordzucker: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Nordzucker is a privately held company headquartered in Braunschweig, Germany that owns 5 consumer brands.[1]
Nordzucker is a European sugar company that makes sugar from beet and cane at 18 production sites in Europe and Australia and is run from Braunschweig, Germany. It is an unlisted stock company: Nordzucker Holding AG, which represents the beet-farmer shareholders, holds 83.8 per cent and Union-Zucker Südhannover GmbH holds 11.1 per cent, with about 5 per cent in free float. Nordzucker bought Nordic Sugar in 2009 and a majority stake in Australia's Mackay Sugar in 2019. It says its two consumer brands are SweetFamily and Dansukker, with local names in Ireland and the Baltics. Dansukker is not listed here because no document opened says where it originates.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Nordzucker AG (also Nordzucker Group)
- Type
- privately held company · see all privately held company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇩🇪 Braunschweig, Germany
- Website
- www.nordzucker.com
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Nordzucker in numbers
- Nordzucker owns 5 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is food with 5 brands.[1]
- 4 of its brands originated outside Germany.
Everything Nordzucker owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Frequently asked questions
What brands does Nordzucker own?
Nordzucker owns 5 consumer brands tracked here, including SweetFamily, Panevėžio Plus, McKinney's, Siúcra and Jelgavas Cukurs.
Is Nordzucker a German company?
Yes. Nordzucker is headquartered in Braunschweig, Germany.
Who owns Nordzucker?
Nordzucker is privately held. Nordzucker is a European sugar company that makes sugar from beet and cane at 18 production sites in Europe and Australia and is run from Braunschweig, Germany.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Sugar for consumers — Nordzucker, Official document; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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