Landbell
{{Short description|German waste take-back service provider}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Landbell AG für Rückhol-Systeme
| logo = Landbell Group Logo.png
| type = Private
| industry = Waste, Environ Service, Equipment
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| founded = {{Start date and age|1995}} in Mainz, Germany
| founder = Frank Binder
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| hq_location_city = Mainz
| hq_location_country = Germany
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| key_people = Jan Patrick Schulz (CEO)
Karen Rieck (CFO)
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| owner = Frank Binder
| num_employees = 480
| num_employees_year = 2025{{cite web |url=https://landbell-group.com/about-us/ |title=Want to learn more about Landbell Group? |author= |date=May 2019 |website=landbell-group.com |access-date=February 19, 2020}}
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Landbell AG für Rückhol-Systeme – or Landbell Group - is a service provider that carries out take-back and recycling obligations for companies.{{cite news|url=https://www.bvse.de/sachverstand-bvse-recycling/themen-ereignisse/4807-landbell-group-staerkt-seine-unternehmensfuehrung-fuer-internationale-positionierung.html|title=bvse - Landbell Group stärkt seine Unternehmensführung für internationale Positionierung|access-date=February 19, 2020|language=de|trans-title=Landbell Group strengthens its corporate management for international positioning}} It supports companies in meeting their extended producer responsibility (EPR) obligations and other product and packaging related requirements.{{cite news|url=https://www.edie.net/tv/Landbell-Group-Building-closed-loop-recycling-programmes-the-challenges-and-lessons-learned/1153|title=Landbell Group: Building closed loop recycling programmes: the challenges and lessons learned|date=January 16, 2020|work=edie|access-date=February 19, 2020}} The company operates worldwide through its own network of producer responsibility organisations (PROs). Landbell Group's head office is located in Mainz.{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/7024205Z:GR|title=Landbell AG Fuer Rueckhol-Systeme|work=Bloomberg L.P.|access-date=February 19, 2020}}
History
Landbell AG was founded in September 1995 as a local waste management company in Germany. Its aim was to support companies with their obligation to take back and recycle their sales packaging. It developed its own take-back scheme in a pilot project in cooperation with the Lahn-Dill district.{{cite news|title=Machtkampf um Müll. Der Lahn-Dill-Kreis erklärt dem DSD den Kampf. Den Schlachtplan liefert die Metro|date=1998|newspaper=Der Handel|pages=20–22|language=de}}{{cite news|title=Verpackungskongreß Baden-Baden|date=1999|newspaper=BRAUWELT Nr. 28/29|language=de}}{{cite news|title=Lahn-Dill-Kreis spürt Widerstand|date=1998|newspaper=Lebensmittel Zeitung|language=de}} In August 2003, Landbell was approved as a packaging compliance scheme in the federal state of Hesse.{{cite news|title=Bewegung im Monopol. Duales System|date=2003|newspaper=Der Handel|pages=18–22, 24|language=de}} Up to this point, Duales System Deutschland GmbH (DSD) had been the only such option in Germany.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} In August 2006, Landbell was approved nationwide as a packaging compliance scheme. In 2009, the business started to support companies based abroad with their recycling obligations in Germany.
Expansion
In 2014 they merged with European Recycling Platform (ERP) and founded the Landbell Group.{{cite news|url=https://erp-recycling.org/en-at/news-and-events/2017/11/landbell-group-engineering-circular-economy/|title=Landbell Group – Engineering Circular Economy|access-date=February 19, 2020}}{{cite news|url=https://www.clearwaterinternational.com/transactions/clearwater-international-advises-landbell-group-on-acquisition-of-european-recycling-platform|title=Clearwater International advises Landbell Group on acquisition of European Recycling Platform|work=clearwaterinternational.com|access-date=February 19, 2020}} ERP had been created in 2002 by Hewlett-Packard, Electrolux, Sony and Procter & Gamble in response to the introduction of the European Union's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, and the Batteries Directive which was adopted in 2006.{{cite news|url=https://www.sewa.sk/en/german-landbell-group-becomes-a-shareholder-of-erp/|title=German Landbell Group becomes a shareholder of ERP|date=July 9, 2014|work=SEWA a.s.|access-date=February 19, 2020}} Landbell Group expanded its services to include WEEE and batteries in 15 countries.
Since 2014, Landbell Group acquired further companies, including H2 Compliance (in 2016),{{cite news|url=https://www.h2compliance.com/|title=H2 Compliance Chemical and Environmental Regulatory Compliance|date=July 28, 2003|access-date=February 19, 2020}} and holds shares in numerous other companies, including TerraCycle GmbH in the DACH region.{{cite news|last=Ragaza|first=Angelo|url=https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/energie-umwelt/circular-economy/terracycle-nie-wieder-muell/20472452.html?ticket=ST-5109437-9nVeMqNLeRhmJtMljdk5-ap3|title=Nie wieder Müll?|date=October 27, 2017|access-date=February 19, 2020|language=de|trans-title=No more trash?}}
Company structure and memberships
Jan Patrick Schulz is CEO of Landbell Group since 1 July 2007.{{cite news|title=Wechselfälle|date=February 23, 2007|newspaper=Manager Magazin|language=de}}{{cite news|url=https://www.owler.com/company/landbell-group|title=Landbell 's Competitors, Revenue, Number of Employees, Funding and Acquisitions|access-date=February 19, 2020}} Karen Rieck is CFO since 2024.{{cite news|url=https://www.northdata.de/?id=5531465429|title=Landbell AG für Rückhol-Systeme - Vorstand: Tim Scholz · Prokura: Wojciech Wiktor Swietochowski · Nicht mehr Vorstand: Udo Knopf|date=February 10, 2020|work=northdata.de|access-date=February 19, 2020|language=de}} Frank Binder is the main shareholder since the company‘s foundation.{{cite news|url=http://www.bilanz.ch/people/300-reichste/reichsten-updates/erben-merck-fluessig|title=Erben Merck: Flüssig|date=February 3, 2019|work=bilanz.ch|access-date=February 19, 2020|language=de|trans-title=Erben Merck: Liquid}} The company has been family-owned for over 20 years. Today, the group of companies is represented in many locations in over 20 countries worldwide and employs around 480 employees from 39 nations.{{cite news|url=https://pinkvoss-verlag.de/wp-content/uploads/landbell-group_image_09l01l2019.pdf|title=LANDBELL GROUP-OUR COMPANY AND VISION|date=January 29, 2019|access-date=February 19, 2020}} In 2024, the company operated 43 approved take-back schemes for batteries, packaging, textiles and WEEE in 18 countries.
In 2019, Landbell Group joined the waste and recycling alliance, Prevent.{{cite news|url=https://landbell-group.com/de/news/landbell-group-tritt-abfall-allianz-prevent-bei/|title=LANDBELL GROUP TRITT ABFALL-ALLIANZ "PREVENT" BEI|date=August 1, 2019|work=landbell-group.com|access-date=February 19, 2020|language=de|trans-title=LANDBELL GROUP JOINS WASTE ALLIANCE "PREVENT}} The alliance was established by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development to promote the expansion of a functioning waste and recycling management system in emerging and developing countries.{{cite news|url=https://prevent-waste.net/en/official-launching-event/|title=Official launching event|date=May 9, 2019|work=prevent-waste.net|access-date=February 19, 2020}}{{cite news|url=https://www.plasteurope.com/news/PLASTICS_AND_ENVIRONMENT_t242480/|title=PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT|date=May 21, 2019|work=Plasteurope.com|access-date=February 19, 2020}}
As an international company, Landbell Group offers solutions{{buzzword inline|date=November 2020}} for producers and retailers to help them comply with their obligations under global environment
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Category:Holding companies of Germany
Category:Companies established in 1995