Ingo Müller (CEO) was dissatisfied with the 2016 reporting period: ”We clearly fell short of our most important goal – to pay competitive milk prices. There’s no way to gloss over that fact”.
As a consequence of the dramatic turn in the market in 2016, many farmers have given up dairy farming. Members leaving Deutsches Milchkontor eG will mean the loss of around 1.7 billion kilos of milk in the next two years. The DMK GROUP is planning to respond to this situation with a new concept for its sites and for milk processing. This concept will involve stopping production at three sites: Rimbeck/North Rhine-Westphalia, Bad Bibra/Saxony-Anhalt and Bergen on the island of Rügen. There are also plans to discontinue slicing and packaging at an additional site, Nordhackstedt/Schleswig-Holstein.