Lichtenauer Mineralquellen GmbH

Three successful brands between tradition and modernity - between cult and innovation: Lichtenauer, Margon and Vita Cola.

In Lichtenau, Saxony, three strong brands come together to form a competence center for non-alcoholic beverages, which has successfully defended its leading position in the East German fountain industry again this year. Under the umbrella of Lichtenauer Mineralquellen GmbH, which was founded in 1990 as an East German subsidiary of the Hassia Group from Hesse, three strong brands are combined to form a successful concept: Lichtenau not only bottles the Lichtenauer house brand, but has also marketed the traditional Saxon brand Margon and the East German cult drink Vita Cola since 2005.

The product range of Lichtenauer Mineralquellen GmbH comprises 72 different types of beverage in 168 branded articles. In many product groups, the brands occupy top positions in the new federal states. Three high-performance lines - returnable glass (capacity 36,000 fillings per hour), returnable PET mineral water and sweet (capacity 32,000 fillings per hour) and PET non-returnable/PET cycle (capacity 10,000 fillings per hour) - fill a total of around one million liters of mineral water and other non-alcoholic beverages every day. Each year, around 166 million liters are supplied to beverage wholesalers, food retailers, discounters and restaurants.

Lichtenauer Mineralquellen employs 207 people, including 11 trainees.