ZERTUS is one of Germany's oldest companies. Our roots go back to the Zuckerraffinerie Tangermünde that was founded in 1826. The company became the largest of its kind in Europe before it was expropriated and dismantled by the Soviet Union in 1946. While rebuilding the company, management concentrated on businesses outside of the sugar industry. Focussing on the production and the marketing of food and food specialties has resulted in ZERTUS becoming once again a very healthy group of companies.




Today ZERTUS is a diversified group of specialists in the food industry which are among the most successful in their market categories.




Germany's leading marketer and distributor of national and international premium food brands and impulse products.




Clear market leader for dextrose products in Germany and other European markets.




Europe's largest manufacturer of tinned candies.




Leading producer of personalized confectionery.




Europe's largest flat and moulded wafer specialist for the ice-cream and confectionery industry.