Europe's largest frozen bakery manufacturer, producing 250,000+ cakes daily
Conditorei Coppenrath & Wiese is Europe's dominant frozen bakery producer, owned by Oetker Group since 2015. The company's tech stack is heavily weighted toward SAP (S/4HANA + Analytics Cloud) and Office-based tools, with active projects clustered around inventory optimization, capacity planning, and category performance — signaling a shift from pure manufacturing operations toward data-driven retail optimization. Current hiring leans sales and manufacturing, with minimal intake, suggesting operational maturity and selective growth targeting.
Notable leadership hires: Controlling Head
Conditorei Coppenrath & Wiese manufactures frozen baked goods at scale: two of every three frozen cakes sold in Germany come from their Mettingen production facility, which runs daily output of over 250,000 units. Founded in 1975 by Aloys Coppenrath and Josef Wiese as a family operation, the company now employs approximately 3,000 staff across production, logistics (via subsidiary Overnight Tiefkühl-Service GmbH in Osnabrück), and commercial functions. They serve retail customers across Germany, Europe, the US, and Australia, competing on quality through zero-preservative production and flash-freezing processes.
Frozen baked goods: cakes, tortes, and rolls produced without preservatives. Their Mettingen facility produces over 250,000 cakes daily and supplies roughly two-thirds of all frozen bakery products sold in Germany.
Oetker Group, a major food conglomerate. Coppenrath & Wiese became part of the Oetker food division in 2015 and operates as a public company headquartered in Mettingen, Germany.
SAP S/4HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud for operations and analytics; Microsoft Office and Power BI for reporting; Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop) for packaging and marketing design.