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Introduction

Uferstrasse 7
69412 Eberbach
Germany
Telephone: +49 (0) 62 71/84-21 90
Fax: +49 (0) 62 71/84-27 18
Web site: http://www.gelita.com

Private Company
Incorporated: 1878 as F. Drescher & Co.
Employees: 2,500
Sales: $549.3 million (2004)
NAIC: 325414 Biological Product (Except Diagnostic) Manufacturing; 325998 All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product Manufacturing

Gelita AG is the world leader in the production of gelatin products. In 2004 Gelita, known until 2005 as DGF Stoess & Co. GmbH, produced some 78,000 tons of gelatin, for a broad variety of products, including foodstuffs, photography, pharmaceutical uses, and human nutrition. Gelita has factories on five continents, in the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, The Netherlands, the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and China, as well as in its native Germany. In addition to its wide-reaching business interests, Gelita is involved in a number of social and community-based projects.

1. Introduction
2. Producing Gelatin in the 19th Century
3. Overcoming Adversity in the Early 1900s
4. Economic, Political, and Personal Challenges in the 1930s
5. Destruction, Reconstruction, and New Products in the 1940s–50s
6. Expansion and Merger in the 1960s
7. Expansion and Acquisitions in the 1970s
8. Focusing on the Future in the 1980s
9. Further Expansion in the 1990s
10. A New Identity in the 2000s
11. Principal Subsidiaries
12. Principal Competitors
13. Further Reading
14. Copyright Page
15. About Page