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Strasbourg employs almost 6,000 people in the food processing sector : it constitutes the leading industrial sector in the Communauté Urbaine and the region.
The brewery business is the most famous and oldest activity. It accounts for more than a third of the workforce in the French brewing industry. International groups have made considerable investments here: for instance Fischer was taken over by Heineken, the leading European brewer. We also find this marked trend towards internationalisation in the city's second food processing activity: the chocolate makers, Kraft Jacobs Suchard and CFCC-Schaal, specialised in top of the range chocolates.
High productivity and major investment, particularly in brewing and flour milling, provide the food processing sector with an economic performance higher than the national average.
The principal sectors
Brewing
Chocolate making
Malting
Flour milling
Coffee
Industrial cold meat products
References
Research
The university infrastructure in Strasbourg constitutes an asset of the first order for the food processing sector, particularly the Université Louis Pasteur and the Ecole Supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg (Strasbourg Higher School of Biotechnology) (ESBS).
The CRITT Aérial , specialised in techniques of product conservation and ionising treatments, is an essential partner to innovative companies in the food processing sector.
Investments
The Fischer brewery (Heineken group) is devoting 30.5 million euros to the modernisation of its plant and the development of its production capacity, which, with growth of 120,000 hl per year, has been increased to 1.3 million hl per year.
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