A. Moksel AG - Introduction

Introduction

Rudolf-Diesel-Strasse 10
86807 Buchloe
Germany
Telephone: +49/82 41/5 03-0
Fax: +49/82 41/5 03-210
Web site: http://www.moksel.com

Public Company
Incorporated: 1948
Employees: 2,313
Sales: EUR 1.8 billion (2002)
Stock Exchanges: Munich Frankfurt Berlin Hamburg
Ticker Symbol: MOK
NAIC: 424470 Meat and Meat Product Merchant Wholesalers; 311611 Animal (Except Poultry) Slaughtering; 311612 Meat Processed From Carcasses

A. Moksel AG runs a meat production and trading concern in the heart of southern Bavaria, one of Germany's major cattle-producing areas. The company operates a large slaughterhouse and trading concern in its home town in Buchloe and oversees a network of slaughterhouses, processors, and trading companies throughout Germany that together form the Moksel Group. Founded just after World War II, the company began importing, exporting, and slaughtering meat in the earliest decades of its existence. Its business activities later grew to encompass cutting and storage of meat. In the mid-1990s, Moksel increased its activity in the area of meat processing and developed a line of convenience foods marketed under the Food Family brand name. The company is majority owned by Bestmeat Company of The Netherlands.