DMK reorganises
Deutsches Milchkontor (DMK) has started it its comprehensive organisational and business reorientation. The employees representatives agreed to the plans at after several months’ discussion.
The management teams have taken over the implementation of the scheme, and the aim is to achieve higher added value, so that after the recent dairy crisis the company can again provide value for its milk producers and pay them competitive prices (currently €0.32 per kg milk).
CEO Ingo Müller says that price fluctuations in the international milk markets are now normal for German dairies.
“With our reorganisation we are able to react to the changing needs of our customers as well as to different market situations and to direct our milk flows quickly and effectively in the event of price fluctuations. This includes cheese, butter, cottage cheese, desserts, baby food, ice cream and ingredients,” he notes.
In the future the DMK Group will be organised as a strategic holding company rather than as an operational holding company. Only two (instead of seven) managing directors, CEO Ingo Müller and Volkmar Divers, the financial officer, will decide on group-wide strategies and guidelines.
The executive board now manages six business units: trademark, brand, industry, international, baby food and ice cream. These receive extensive operational independence, with their own sales, balance sheet and profit and loss accounts.
The new executive team was named at the end of January:
- Business Unit Trade Mark: Thorsten Rodehüser
- Business Unit Brand: Matthias Rensch
- Business Unit Industry: Alexander Godow
- Business Unit International: Michael Feller
- Business Unit Baby food: Stefan Eckert
- Business Unit Ice cream: Marcus-Dominic Hauck
- Agriculture: Klaus Hein
- Supply Chain Management: Hermann Köster
- Personnel: Ines Krummacker
