KUK – ADDING VALUE - Company

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Web Name: KUK – ADDING VALUE - Company

WebSite: http://kuk.com

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Adding value – through strategic specialization.We focus on specialty food and pharma ingredients and have been dedicated to identifying new, innovative applications for these since 1945. It’s a strategy that’s paid off. Headquartered in Ried im Innkreis, Austria, and with 19 subsidiaries, KUK is now one of Central and Eastern Europe’s most well-known providers in these sectors. Our aim is to act as a link between internationally renowned suppliers of select ingredients, and food and pharma manufacturers which adhere to the highest standards of quality. On site, in the local language, and supported by a team of solution experts. Adding value – with our unconventional approach.KUK: three letters with a single goal. To be the link that adds value. Between ingredients experts, product developers and demanding end consumers. Whoever we target, we always keep the bigger picture in mind. We ask questions. We do our research. And we tailor our expertise to our customers’ exact needs – until we've found the perfect recipe. The more unique the task, the more innovative our approach – both unconventionally flexible and exceptionally future-oriented. Adding value - with our pioneering vision Listening, to hear what the market needs. Already there, when others are just starting out. The founders of KUK, Krist, Ulrich and Kössl, enlivened the post-war market with artificial honey, which met with enthusiastic acceptance. With the start of pectin production, the company laid the foundation for further successes. More A new visionary joins the team: Herbert Karsch leads the growth of the pectin business and sees the potential of distribution business – shifting the company’s focus from production to distribution at a strategically critical moment. The firm begins applying its expertise to trading ingredients for the food industry. Anton Kirchtag arrives on the scene. Over the next few years, he responds to the opening up of Eastern Europe by internationalizing the business – and is one step ahead of the emerging trend for large-scale distribution networks. Under his leadership, KUK stops thinking in terms of countries and starts thinking in terms of regions – that’s KUKalization. With 25 respected representationes, KUK is now one of Austria’s leading distributors. In 1993, the company enters the Hungarian market and establishes itself as an interregional company trading beyond Austria’s borders. Then, in 1994, it opens its first subsidiary: KUK-Bohemia in Prague. This is the starting point for rolling out lean, expert teams throughout the Eastern European market. Anton Kirchtag is among the first people to identify the new trend for “functional food”, and once again becomes a pioneer. He expands the company’s portfolio to include nutraceutical and pharmaceutical ingredients – an area in which KUK is now a leading distributor. By 2001, the company has subsidiaries in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia and Slovakia. By this point, KUK has a foothold in the four largest CEE markets – Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Russia – as well as Kazakhstan. Katrin Kirchtag joins the company in 2010 and leads KUK into the digital age, securing its future in Europe. KUK opens subsidiaries in Albania and Macedonia, plus test kitchens at all KUK locations. KUK reaches another milestone: new Application Centers in Győr, Hungary, and Kiev, Ukraine, allow the company to build on its existing expertise in specially equipped labs, and improve its services for customers and suppliers. New state-of-the-art equipment allows the firm to simulate more complex, technically challenging production processes and develop solutions that are an exact fit for customers’ needs. Research, innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit are key elements of the company’s vision. Adding value – through contacts you can count on.Our employees are the face of our company. And each and every one is 100% committed to using our flat, flexible hierarchies for your benefit – wherever you’re based, and in your local language. This is why cultural diversity is such an integral part of our corporate culture. It sparks creativity, encourages individuals to take the initiative, and opens our eyes to specific local needs, which in turn provide inspiration for innovative new products for other markets. What makes a KUKie stand out? Their capacity to think outside the box. An inability to turn down a challenge. And a readiness to take complete responsibility. Adding value – with a workplace like no other.New markets, new opportunities … Not just for growing companies, but for new faces too. Perhaps you’d like to benefit too? Tell us why you’d like to join the KUK team – whether it’s in our back office, working closely with customers and suppliers, or as a food technician in their labs. Inspire us with your personal story and show us how passionate you are about creating innovative solutions. Make us want to find out more! Send your application to jobs@kuk.com. Adding value – through comprehensive support and advice.Highly developed and demanding sectors such as the food and pharma industries rely heavily on product developers who are faced with enormous challenges. End products are becoming more complex. And product cycles are getting shorter. For developers, this means responding in a better way, faster. So the call for partners who can support them is getting louder. We’ve heard this call – and we’ve responded. Our comprehensive, one-stop consulting service gets to the bottom of companies’ needs and supports them through the entire process. It’s an added benefit that our long-standing customers know and appreciate. Adding value – as your local outsourcing partner.New markets are opening up all over the world. This means the doors of many renowned companies are now open to first-class suppliers. These companies don’t just expect high-quality ingredients – they want exceptional on-site support too. For ingredients manufacturers with a diverse range of products, this represents both an opportunity and a challenge. What you need is a flexible, expert sales force that can deliver this support locally, working closely with you. And this is precisely how KUK sees its role as an outsourcing partner in Central and Eastern Europe. As the link between manufacturers and customers, our 80+ food technologists feel at home on both sides – in the research labs of our suppliers and the development labs of our customers. The value we add? A smooth transfer of knowledge between the two, allowing the very latest findings to be incorporated into the development of one-of-a-kind products. It’s just another reason why suppliers trust us to expand their business in the east, using our extensive sales network. Because our many years of customer relationship management mean that doors really do stand wide open for us. Adding value – with our innovative test kitchens.We get to know our suppliers’ high-quality ingredients in their own labs. But it’s in our test kitchens that our 80+ food technologists expand their knowledge, trial new recipes, and produce small-batch samples. It’s a service our customers embrace – because it means they can be certain of the excellent quality of the products before production starts. This model has already been rolled out in 19 countries, with the test lab and sample production adding yet more value for our suppliers and customers. Adding value – through highly specialized suppliers. Our suppliers are a key enabler of our ability to add value. In compliance with rigorous safety and quality standards, they develop new ingredients in their labs that in turn allow us to create high-quality, innovative products in collaboration with our customers.When a supplier decides to task us with their commercial representation in Eastern Europe, they enjoy even more added value: access to more than 10,000 customers in Central and Eastern Europe. But such a decision is not taken lightly. It only follows close consultation with our food specialists in the supplier’s lab. The following suppliers now enjoy the peace of mind that comes from knowing their high-quality ingredients are in good hands. They benefit from our established networks in the east, spanning multiple countries, with all the distribution and logistics handled by KUK. More Adding value – with select food ingredients.With a focus on specialty food ingredients, we offer a broad portfolio of high-quality products – plus more than 80 food technologists to serve up expert advice. MoreStarchesmodified functional native starches, emulsifying and fat mimetic starchesHydrocolloidescarrageenes, alginates, xanthan gum, locust bean gum, guar gum, pectines, gelatine, agar agars, gum arabic, cellulose gum, MCC and its functional blendsMilk derived ingredientscaseinates, whey based ingredients, toppings, coffee creamers, coffee foamers, butter-fractionsDairy cultures and mediamilk and cheese cultures, rennets and mediaCocoa Chocolate productscocoa powder, -mass and -butter, industrial chocolates, coatings and filings, chocolate products for decoration and inclusionsVegetable fatsfat powders and flakes, palm based fat specialties (CBE, CBS, CBR, CBI, shortenings) and other vegetable fatsColours and tastenatural colours colouring foodstuffs, caramel colours, vanillin, savoury sweet flavours, seasonings, cheese based powders, yeast and yeast extracts, tea coffee extractsEgg productscrystallised and spraydried eggwhitepowder, eggyolk- and whole eggpowderFruits and vegetablesfreeze- and airdried fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, meat and fish, fruit- and vegetable powder, fruit purees and juices, pulse flours, herbs spicesSemifinished productscereals and their mixes, cornflakes, soja nuts, -flakes, -grits, roasted bread crumbs, croutons, babyfood cereals, hydrolyzed floursSweeteners and Sugarsaspartam, acesulfam K, stevia, xylitol, lactitol, fructose, rare and pearl sugars, sucralose, icing sugar and fondant powderFunctional proteins (non-dairy)plant based - soya protein, pea protein, sunflower protein, pulse protein, animal based - porkrind powder, collagen, meat protein, plasma proteinEmulsifiersmono-diglycerides, datem, lactem, citrem, acetem, PGE, PGPR, SSL, lecithinAntioxidantstocopherols, ascorbyl palmitate, rosemary extract, green tea extractOthersbreadcrumbs for meat coating, (instant) rice rice flours, liquid and dried malt extracts flours, phosphates, enzymes, potassium sorbate, marzipan, glazing, polishing, varnishing and release agents for the sweet goods, betaine Adding value – with select nutra- and pharmaceuticals.With a focus on specialty nutraceutical and pharmaceutical ingredients, we offer a broad portfolio of high-quality products – plus more than 80 technologists to serve up expert advice. MoreExcipients (solid)lactose for granulation, lactose for direct compression, MCC, film coating for tablets, disintegrants, pharmaceutical starches, pharmaceutical gelatines, xanthan, xylitolExcipients (liquid)polysorbates, ethoxylated castor oil, macrogolstearate, sorbitan ester, macrogol lauryl ether, vaccine adjuvantsLubricantsstearic acid, magnesium stearate, glycerol dibehenateDietary fibresinulin, oligo-fructose, soluble apple fibre, cellulose fibre, liquid oligofructoseProbioticsprobiotic cultures, probiotic yeastsJoint healthglucosamine, chondroitin, native collagen type II, hyaluronic acidCardiovascular healthomega-3 fatty acids in oil and powderVitamins and mineralsvitamin-mineral mixtures, calcium carbonates, B-vitamins and minerals from yeast, vitamin K2Sports nutritionL-carnitine, conjugated linoleic acid, protein hydrolysates, WPCs, whole milk proteinImmun ingredientsarabinogalactan, lactoferrin, colostrumBioactive ingredientsplant extracts, pine nut oil, lecithin, MCT, antioxidantsTopical ingredientshyaluronic acid, emulsifiers, thickeners, betain Adding value – with a responsive team.Have we sparked your interest? Do you have a question and want a quick answer? Simply get in touch with your local KUK office or feel free to contact our headquarters. The value we add? We always reply within 24 hours. And when one of our associates contacts you, you can take them at their word. I have read the privacy policy and accept its terms and conditions. Privacy policy must be accepted We offer the flexibility of a small firm and the reliability of an established company. That’s how we’ve successfully built up a presence in 26 countries. Working with KUK means talking with a real person who understands your business. We provide on-site support, are available within a short period of time –with the dedication and ambition to solve each and every problem. No issue is too small to be resolved in an innovative way. The value we add? Proximity to you and extensive consultation upfront.SCOPE OF THE POLICYKUK-Handels GmbH and its affiliates (“KUK” or “we”) is an international distributor of food pharma ingredients providing technical consulting, distribution and sales services to food pharma manufacturers as well as distribution outsourcing services to ingredients producers (“services”).We value your trust and respect your privacy, which is why we want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information. This privacy policy outlines our general policy and practices for protecting personal information that we collect through our website at www.kuk.com and other websites (“sites”) that we operate. It furthermore describes the types of information we gather through our sites and in connection with our services, how we use that information, and the choices individuals may exercise regarding our use of, and their ability to correct, that information.TYPE OF PERSONAL DATA WE PROCESSPersonal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual.Personal data which we process includes:name / identifying data (first / last name, academic title / occupation, birth date, gender, ….)contact data (email address, postal address, telephone numbers, …)marketing and communications data including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and correspondence necessary to provide requested services to you (including pre-contractual legal relationships)transaction data including details about payments to and from you / the organisation you are representing and other details of products and services you / the organisation you are representing has purchased from or supplied to KUKfinancial information including creditworthiness data about the organisation you are representingtechnical and usage data including data about your use of our sites (e. g. date, time and location of access to our sites, clicked pages/links of us or entries and comparable data)We collect personal data when you participate in services we provide, for example when:you send us a request for a product or serviceyou order a product or servicewe conduct market research, meet you at a trade show or when you register for one of our eventsyou participate in a survey or other promotionyou follow us on our social media channels or share your social media profile with usAdditionally, we may process personal data that we have lawfully collected, received or acquired from publicly accessible sources (such as, for example, commercial registers and association registers, civil registers, the press, Internet and other media) if such is necessary and we are allowed to process this data in accordance with statutory provisions.We process the data because it is necessary for: the contractual relationship with you, or the organisation which you represent (or in order to take steps, prior to entering into that contract); and the activities performed by you/your organisation.We need to collect personal data in order to provide requested services and products to you. If you do not want to provide us with your personal data, you are free not do to so. However, this may prevent you from using our sites and services, or it may prevent us from carrying out a contractual relationship with you or the organisation you represent. If you disclose any personal data relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.We ask that you not send and disclose to KUK any sensitive personal information (for example, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership) as we do not process and collect such data.We do not intend to collect information from persons under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any information to us.FOR WHICH PURPOSE DO WE USE PERSONAL DATAWe and our service providers use personal data for our business purposes, which includes:fulfill your and our purchases and respond to your requests and inquiries (based on our contractual relationship or to comply with legal obligations, including pre-contractual relationships)process your payments, have your order delivered to you, communicate with you regarding your purchase / sales and provide you with related customer service.send you important information regarding changes to KUK terms, conditions and policies and/or other administrative information.tailoring our offers to your needs and allow you to sign up for KUK-Academies, customer seminars or other events (based on our contractual relationship or with your consent)send marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you, including information about trade shows and KUK eventsallow you to register and participate at KUK-Academies, customer seminar or other KUK eventspursue business purposes (based on our contractual relationship with you, to comply with a legal obligation or because we have a legitimate interest)improving our services to youdeveloping marketing tools and eventsadminister and update our sites and online services (e.g. security measures)ensuring security of our IT-systems and facilitiesensure corporate management (e.g. reporting, risk management, cost accounting)follow legal regulations processesto comply with applicable law legal processes, including laws outside your country of residenceto respond to requests from public and government authorities including those outside your country of residenceto protect KUK rights, privacy, safety or property, you or othersto allow KUK to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.We do not use profiling or make any decisions based solely on the automated processing of your personal information.HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATAWe will retain your personal data for as long as required for the purpose described in this privacy policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.To determine the retention periods, we use various criteria, including:length of time we provide requested services to you (including pre-contractual legal relationships and execution of contracts)purpose for which we process your personal dataamount, nature and sensitivity of the personal datapotential risk of harm from unauthorized used or disclosure of your personal dataretention and documentation obligations of applicable local lawsHOW DO WE SECURE YOUR PERSONAL DATAThe security of your personal data is important to us. Therefore, we use reasonable technical (e.g. network firewalls, harddrive encryption, authentication mechanisms) and organizational measures (e.g. confidentiality agreements, training, procedures that limit access to and use of data) to protect the information we process. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or data storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you suspect or have reason to believe that your interaction with KUK is no longer secure, immediately notify us under data.protection@kuk.com .DISCLOSURE AND DATA TRANSFERWithin KUK, your personal data is disclosed and processed by those KUK-companies that need this personal data for the purposes described in this privacy policy, in order to fulfil our contractual and statutory obligations or that require such data to process and implement our legitimate interest.We may disclose information we collect to the following third parties in the following ways:to our service providers and suppliers, who collect or use or process such information for us or on our behalf (such as our ingredient suppliers, database hosting companies, support and maintenance of IT applications, courier services, fulfillment/warehouse/logistics companies, advertising agencies and other similar entities that help us to operate the sites and/or provide functionality, content and services and/or products);to respond to court orders or other judicial processes, or to provide information as requested by law enforcement agencies, a regulator, other government authorities, or otherwise as required by law or where the forwarding of data is in the public interest;to protect KUK rights, privacy, safety or property, you or others;to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of KUK business, assets or stock including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings;as otherwise, with your permission or as permitted by law.Because of the international nature of the services, personal data may, subject to applicable law, be transferred internationally throughout KUK for the purposes described above. This may mean that personal information may be transferred to countries which do not have laws or regulations that protect personal information to the same extent as in the European Union. We use reasonable measures to limit the disclosure of the data you provide to us only to certain employees within KUK and our affiliates and to third party providers. We will require that external data processors process the data only for the purposes identified in this privacy policy.If we process your data in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or Switzerland, we comply with applicable laws, especially the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If it is necessary to transfer data to a recipient in a third country for which no adequacy decision by the Commission according to art 45 GDPR exists, we use one or more of the following mechanisms to provide an adequate level of data protection:EU-Standard-Contractual-Clauses with the data recipient outside the EEA according to art 46 par 2 lit c), d) GDPR, orbinding corporate rules according to art 47, art 46 par 2 lit b) GDPR existing within KUK, orcodes of conduct existing within KUK together with binding and enforceable commitments in the third country to apply the appropriate safeguards, including as regards data subjects' rights (art 46 par 2 lit e), art 40), orKUK passed through an approved certification mechanism according to art 46 par 2 lit f), art 42 GDPR together with binding and enforceable commitments in the third country to apply the appropriate safeguards, including as regards data subjects' rights, orby the data protection authority authorized contractual clauses between the KUK and the data recipient in the third country (art 46 par 3 lit a) GPDR), orderogation for specific situations according to art 49 par 1 GDPR, orderogation for particular case according to art 49 par 1 subpar 2 GDPR.COOKIESOur sites are using a web analytics application called "Matomo". "Matomo" uses cookies to identify the usage of our sites, helping us to further improve your user experience.A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Such data includes browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, operating system, country from which the website is accessed as well as date and time stamps. During this data transfer, your IP-address is anonymized, making it impossible for us to identify you, your computer or your mobile device. If you do not consent to the use of cookies, please be sure to block or disable them using your browser settings, with the drawback that certain features of our websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMSBy following, commenting on or sharing information via our social media channels (e.g. LinkedIn), we may receive information from your social network provider (depending on your social media settings) such as contact details, interests and contacts. For more information on the personal data that we receive from your social network provider and how to change your settings, please check the website and privacy policy of your social network provider (e.g. for LinkedIn see https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy ).HYPERTEXT LINKSThis privacy policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site to which our sites may contain a link. The inclusion of a link on our sites does not imply endorsement of the linked site by KUK. We are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure or security policies or practices of any social media platform provider or operating system provider, including with respect to any personal data you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with such sites / services. If we become aware of a specific infringement of the law concerning the linked external website, we will immediately remove the link in question. Any liability concerning this matter can only be assumed from the point in time at which the infringement becomes known to us.YOUR DATA PRIVACY RIGHTSYou have the rightto obtain confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning your person is being processed, further information about the nature of the data processing and copies of the data (art 15 GDPR),to obtain rectification of incorrect or incomplete data (art 16 GDPR),to obtain erasure of data concerning your person (art 17 GDPR),to obtain restriction of processing (art 18 GDPR),to receive the personal data concerning your person in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to transmit those data to another controller (art 20 GDPR) andto object.If you would like to request a copy of your personal data or exercise any of your other rights, please contact us using the contact details listed at the end of this privacy policy. Please note, that for your protection, we need to verify your identity before responding to your request.Where we have obtained your consent for the processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal. In case we are processing your data based on a legitimate interest, you have the right to lodge an objection against the processing anytime. Please note that we will lawfully obtain the processing of your data until it has been determined whether the legitimate reasons outweigh your grounds.Within the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority for your country or region, or where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection law occurs.A list of data protection authorities is available on the European Commission website.CHANGES TO THE POLICYKUK reserves the right to amend or modify this privacy policy from time to time. View the “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this page to see when this privacy policy was last revised. Any changes to this privacy policy will become effective when we post the revised privacy policy. Your use of the sites following these changes means that you accept the revised privacy policy.CONTACTING USYour personal data collected by KUK is either controlled by KUK-Handels GmbH or one of its affiliates. If you have any questions about this privacy statement you can either contact your responsible KUK-Office or you can contact our Headquarter under:KUK-Handels GmbH Auleiten 4 4910 Ried im Innkreis phone: +43 7752 85805 e-mail: data.protection@kuk.comIn case you contact our Headquarter, we might forward your request to the respective, responsible KUK-Office. We use cookies to give you the best online experience. By using our website you agree to our use of cookies in accordance with our cookie policy. More

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