Who we are

We are CCI. Together with around 275 col­leagues, we aim to share as many sweet moments as pos­si­ble with our cus­to­mers and con­su­mers. We do so by deve­lo­ping sugar free, low sugar and vegan sweets, in addi­ti­on to our wide ran­ge of more tra­di­tio­nal pro­ducts. We pro­du­ce our sweets in four fac­to­ries in Germany and the Netherlands, for a broad inter­na­tio­nal cus­to­mer base.

CCI, made to share

Made to share

CCI Facts

Our mission statement

Our market  position, driven by our innovative know how and operational flexibility, makes us uniquely suited to develop private brand concepts that meet the demands of new generation sweet lovers. Especially those who are more environmentally and health conscious.
Alfred Attema, Managing Director

Our Mission

Sharing sweet moments.

We make trus­ted brands suc­cess­ful with the tas­tes and ingre­dients made for sharing sweet moments. In fact, we make gre­at sweets for gre­at brands.

Our Vision

Every day peop­le throughout Europe savour and share our sweets with each other. We are and aim to remain lea­der in the manu­fac­tu­re of low sugar and sugar free sweets. As manu­fac­tu­rer of sweets for lea­ding pri­va­te brands, we offer a broad port­fo­lio of tra­di­tio­nal sweets.

Our strategic pillars

We estab­lis­hed five stra­te­gic pil­lars that gui­de our way of working and acting, both wit­hin and out­side the company.

People & Entrepreneurship

Quality

Responsible, Safe & Sustainable

Profitable and Consistent Growth

Creating Value Through Innovation

People & Entrepreneurship

Our peop­le defi­ne our suc­cess. We look to pro­vi­de an open and safe work envi­ron­ment, wit­hin which peop­le are encou­ra­ged to share their insights and know how.
We chal­len­ge them to take actions that make the difference.

To this end, we pro­vi­de our peop­le the oppor­tu­ni­ty to grow in their per­so­nal and work life. From the work floor through to our manage­ment, we encou­ra­ge values-based and empowe­red busi­ness conduct.

Quality

Quality is all about our licen­se to ope­ra­te. And qua­li­ty is also about our respon­si­bi­li­ty towards our cli­ents’ suc­cess. We seek to deli­ver pro­duct excel­lence. Each and every day, in ever­ything we do. To assu­re qua­li­ty, we have in place the hig­hest qua­li­ty stan­dards & certifications.

Operating in a dyna­mic socie­ty and high­ly com­pe­ti­ti­ve mar­ket, we make sure we under­stand trends and are able to pre­dict them. We col­la­bo­ra­te clo­se­ly with our part­ners in the sup­ply chain to bring true added value pro­ducts, con­cepts and pack­a­ging innovations.

Responsible, Safe & Sustainable

Responsible busi­ness means that what we do is never at the expen­se of peop­le or the envi­ron­ment. We invest in peop­le, tech­no­lo­gy and R&D faci­li­ties to crea­te a safe working envi­ron­ment and make our busi­ness more sus­tainab­le. We do so in a way that balan­ces both our short and long term interests.

We look to redu­ce our envi­ron­men­tal foot­print. We belie­ve that sus­taina­bi­li­ty goes bey­ond what hap­pens wit­hin our ope­ra­ti­ons and we share our approach and suc­cess with our busi­ness part­ners and our sup­ply chain. We work in clo­se col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with sup­pliers and cli­ents to make sweets in a way that impacts the envi­ron­ment less, with ingre­dients that con­tri­bu­te to a healt­hi­er lifestyle.

Profitable and Consistent Growth

We dri­ve excel­lence in our ope­ra­ti­ons and sup­ply chain in order to boost effi­ci­en­cy and remain com­pe­ti­ti­ve. We acce­le­ra­te orga­nic, sus­tainab­le growth by inves­ting in our peop­le, in new tech­no­lo­gies and new pro­duct con­cepts. Product inno­va­tions are under­ta­ken pro actively and in clo­se col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with our part­ners. In this way, we grow our and our cli­ents’ mar­ket share and open up new and mutu­al stra­te­gic oppor­tu­nities. This inclu­des brin­ging high added value, redu­ced sugar and sugar free sweets to our clients.

Creating Value Through Innovation

Our inno­va­tions are con­su­mer and mar­ket dri­ven. We crea­te and inno­va­te in anti­ci­pa­ti­on of chan­ging trends. We are con­stant­ly on the move to crea­te appe­aling con­cepts and pro­ducts for an ever incre­a­sing num­ber of con­ve­ni­en­ce and health ori­en­ted consumers.

We aim to offer alter­na­ti­ves that con­tri­bu­te to healt­hi­er lives. We work hard to remain frontrun­ners when it comes to sugar free and vegan sweets, with the tas­te and tex­tures con­su­mers love.

Our History

1985

Company founded in Drachten

Continental Candy Industries was foun­ded in Drachten, Holland, in 1985. With the pro­duc­tion of con­fec­tion­e­ry for the food mar­ket in the Benelux coun­tries and Great Britain, a suc­cess­ful com­pa­ny was founded.

2008

Strategic redefinition

After a stra­te­gic rede­fi­ni­ti­on in 2008, whe­re we focu­sed more stron­gly on retail and pri­va­te labels. This resul­ted in a signi­fi­cant growth.

2012

New factory

This growth, resul­ting from a rele­vant port­fo­lio and our new stra­te­gic posi­tio­ning, promp­ted us to move to a new fac­to­ry with a lar­ger capa­ci­ty in 2012. This move hel­ped pave the way for a suc­cess­ful future.

2013

Takeover by TECG

In ear­ly 2013, CCI Drachten was sold to The European Candy Group (TECG), a sub­si­dia­ry of Bencis Capital Partners. TECG’s objec­ti­ve was to estab­lish the lea­ding European tra­de brand con­fec­tion­e­ry pro­du­cer. This was to be achie­ved based on a buy-and-build strategy.

2013

Takeover of Perfetti van Melle Plant

In the fol­lowing years, a seri­es of fur­ther acqui­si­ti­ons was effec­ted. The first of the­se was in September 2013, with the take­over of a for­mer Perfetti van Melle fac­to­ry in Hoorn (NL).

2014

Takeover of Kraepelien & Holm

In February 2014, we took over liquo­ri­ce fac­to­ry Kraepelien & Holm in Oosterwolde (NL). With this take­over, we expan­ded our pro­duct port­fo­lio of fruit gums and jel­lies to inclu­de liquorice.

2015

Acquisition of Mederer Plant and Sulá

In November 2015, we acqui­red a for­mer fac­to­ry of the Mederer Group in Boizenburg on the Elbe river (fruit gums and jel­lies), fol­lo­wed by the acqui­si­ti­on of Sulá GmbH (sugar-free con­fec­tion­e­ry) in December of the same year.

2018

Future-oriented portfolio

Since the acqui­si­ti­on of in total five fac­to­ries and around 550 moti­va­ted and expe­ri­en­ced col­leagues, we have had excel­lent growth results. We look for­ward to a suc­cess­ful future based on our strong posi­ti­on on the European mar­ket, a cus­to­mer base in over 30 coun­tries and backed by a future-pro­of port­fo­lio that meets cus­to­mer and con­su­mer needs.

Our strengths

Your reliable partner

Our know-how has enab­led us to beco­me an expert in pri­va­te brand con­fec­tion­e­ry and crea­te a uni­que mar­ket position.

Everything from one single source

Our ent­i­re pro­duc­tion pro­cess is imple­men­ted in-house: from busi­ness intel­li­gence, pro­duct manage­ment, reci­pe deve­lo­p­ment (R&D), pro­duc­tion effi­ci­en­cy and just-in-time deli­very to our cus­to­mers. In this way we gua­ran­tee qua­li­ty and full ser­vice throughout the process.

Broad portfolio

Benefit from our wide ran­ge of con­fec­tion­e­ry pro­ducts, which inclu­de healt­hi­er con­cepts (low sugar / sugar redu­ced / sugar free / veg­gie), as well as more tra­di­tio­nal pro­ducts (dra­gees / gum­mi­es & jel­lies / liquo­ri­ce / hard can­dy / tof­fees) that meet all con­su­mer needs.

Market and category focus

Based on intel­li­gent mar­ket rese­arch, cus­to­mer- and trend ana­ly­ses, com­bi­ned with our own rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment, we deve­lop inno­va­ti­ve reci­pes that per­fect­ly match indi­vi­du­al mar­kets, con­su­mer pre­fe­ren­ces and trends.

Food safety

Our four pro­duc­tion sites are cer­ti­fied IFS, BRC, GMP and ISO 50001: 2011. We are regu­lar­ly audi­ted accord­ing to indus­try-spe­ci­fic requi­re­ments such as SMETA.

OUR FACILITIES

Part of a strong network

We pro­du­ce our diver­se ran­ge of first-class con­fec­tion­e­ry at three loca­ti­ons in the Netherlands and one in Germany. Thanks to the com­bi­na­ti­on of the­se plants, we have a high per­for­mance net­work of modern pro­duc­tion lines. We spe­cia­li­se in various pro­duct groups and cater to your requirements.

Drachten

The plant in Drachten is the birth­place of the CCI. It is a fle­xi­ble, all-round fac­to­ry whe­re we can pro­du­ce a wide varie­ty of sweets. We are par­ti­cu­lar­ly proud of our Jelly Bean pro­duc­tion line.

  • Employees: 140
  • Area: 9.000 m²
  • Portfolio:
    • Gummies & Jellies
    • Dragees
    • Vegetarian & vegan
    • Sugar free

Hoorn

Hoorn is a pioneer in the pro­duc­tion of All Sorts liquo­ri­ce. The heart of the plant is its extru­der line, whe­re our pro­du­ce liquo´rice All Sorts in dif­fe­rent forms and recipes.

  • Employees: 25
  • Area: 8.700 m²
  • Portfolio:
    • Liquorice all­sorts

Oosterwolde

Well-known for excel­lent qua­li­ty, this plant spe­cia­li­sed in the pro­duc­tion of liquorice.

  • Employees: 45
  • Area: 10.000 m²
  • Portfolio: 
    • Liquorice
    • Vegetarian & vegan
    • Sugar free

Metelen (Sulá)

This plant, known under the name “Sulá” sin­ce 1950, is one of the most important pro­du­cers of both sugar free hard cara­mels in moul­ded qua­li­ty. As one of the big­gest sugar free hard boi­led can­dy pro­du­cers packa­ged in click­bo­xes, we pro­ve that a tas­ty sweet does not requi­re sugar.

  • Employees: 65
  • Area: ca. 10.000 m²
  • Portfolio:
    • Sugar free
    • Vegetarian & vegan
    • Vitamins
    • Hard boi­led can­dy & pastilles
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