Company īs History


At a meeting in Oldenburg in the year 1949, the brothers Alfred and Dr. Engelhard Loesing joined together with the Dairy-Managing Director Walter Gloor and made the decision to do something independently.

From this idea a business has grown whose products have today a market share of more than 30%.

After the war Dr. Engelhard Loesing, who was responsible for industrial development and nutrition, held the office as Head of Derpartment in the city of Oldenburg. Brother Alfred managed the Strückhausen Dairy and the equally well known Walter Gloor was General Manager of the Bippen Dairy Co-operative. They all had the idea to set up something unique based on the dairy industry. It should be something that did not already exist.

Mister Engelhard Loesing knew that, with the exception of tube cream, there were, for example only large concerns which produced canned milk and as cream suppliers at the Bippen and Strückhausen Dairies, for him, glass was the only packaging material which came into question for milk and cream and the decision was made to fill 10% coffee cream into a 100g bottle.

Next, however, it was necessary to found a company whose capital was made up of DM 9,000 each from Walter Gloor and Alfred Loesing and DM 2,000 which Engelhard Loesing also brought in. For those times that was a huge amount of money.

Land was rented (it was later purchased) and a first production centre was established though the buildings were more of a steel barracks than a food production centre. That was soon to change.

After the purchase of the first machines a further idea matured in the minds of the new entrepreneurs and very soon the three venturesome businessmen produced cream speciality confectionery and the cream sweet from Oldenburg was born.

Turmhoch in Qualität - As high as a tower in quality - was the slogan as it is today.

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The first staff consisted of a Cream and Caramel Manager, but very soon it became necessary to take on further qualified employees. For months they produced caramels twenty four hours a day and the cream sales developed so strongly that demand could only be covered working with a two shift system. There were always new varieties being introduced into the market. TURM cream and TURM sweets became an established byword for quality. The production centres had to be extended and modernised rapidly and new suppliers of raw materials brought in. To that belonged among others the dairies in Wildeshausen, Kirchhatten and Großenkneten. The Passau Dairy in South Germany was pulled into the coffee cream production on a short term basis to supply the market in that region.

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At the beginning of the 1980's everything was placed on a consistent marketing strategy. Since then the turnover curve has gone up steeply. Although the share of caramel production had gone back in modest amounts, rising sales of coffee cream, cream sauces and other specialities looked good. Exports were also continuously expanded.

In 1987, to do justice to the ever increasing demand, extensions were carried out to the production and storage areas. Further investment was also made to the production plant because the machines and devices had to meet the highest technical requirements. Because the capacity of the plant in Emsstraße had been exhausted, the new plant in Westerender Weg was moved into in April 1994 after a construction period of almost one year and an investment of around DM 10 million. The decision to erect the new administration and production buildings on the land of the Molkerei Ammerland eG was mode due to the optimal circumstances of the area and through that, possible connection to the energy and product net.

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When moving to the new production place, the well-known brand name "TURM" has become the name of the company:

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The new business area was equipped with forward looking filling lines incorporating the highest technology. Due to the fantastic development of the company, further measures had to be taken to optimise the production process. These were:

1998 - Construction of a new warehouse
1999 - Traypacking machine and shrinking tunnel
2000 - Palletising machine and a machine for putting pouring caps onto the bottles (premium bottles)
2001 - Depalletising machine for empty bottles
2002 - New shelf system in order to maximise warehouse capacity
2004 - Automatical filling of the sterilisation system, commissioning of a new weight filling plant
2005 - New ERP-System for securing the traceability of goods
2006 - New storage building; additional labelling plant for self-adhesive labels; cooling tunnel for bottle cooling

Our own laboratory and quality assurance department is steadily controlling the quality of our products and quarantees therefore that all standards are kept. This aim is supported by the quality management system which is certificated on IFS.

The company has resolved to carry out a lot in the future. The sales team will be further strengthened to push activities both at home and abroad to make TURM products well-known all over the world. For detailed information on our products please click here .