Company history

Run by the family for more than 120 years

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2017 2017
2014 2014
2013 2013
2012 2012
2010 2010
2009 2009
2007 2007
2002 2002
1995 1995
1987 1987
1983 1983
1983 1983
1968 1968
1922 1922
1897 1897

2017

Uwe Krefeldt joins the company as managing director of RARI Food International.

2014

Relaunch of the company’s own brand LASCHORI with a modern, contemporary corporate identity.

2013

RARI is back – reload and change of name back to Rari Food International GmbH.

2012

Thorsten Rachow’s family buys back the entire shares in Vestey Foods Germany GmbH.

2010

Thorsten Rachow’s son, Kevin Rachow (born 1 May 1991), begins vocational training as wholesale and import/export trader. He is now responsible for poultry imports at RARI.

2009

Minority shareholder Thorsten Rachow comes back to the company as managing partner.

2007

Company name changed from RARI Food International GmbH to Vestey Foods Germany GmbH; Thorsten Rachow resigns as managing director.

2002

Thorsten Rachow sells off major shares in the company to the London-based company Angliss International Ltd (later Vestey Foods Group GmbH).

1995

The Laschori brand is expanded to cover the company’s entire product groups

1987

Foundation of RARI Fleischimport, Export-Grosshandels GmbH. Over the following 15 years, establishment and expansion of an extensive range of frozen fish, seafood, game and poultry, which is imported from all over the world and sold to regional food wholesalers in Germany and Austria and later to neighbouring EU partner countries.

1983

Rollout of company’s own brand Laschori, imported lamb ham from New Zealand marketed under the company’s own brand Laschori

1983

Thorsten Rachow (born 28 April 1961) joins the company, which is reorganised as a global import company for top quality meat cuts from all over the world.

1968

Takeover of “Hugo Schewe Innereiengroßhandel”, a wholesale company at Hamburg slaughterhouse specialising in offal, by the founder’s grandson Karlheinz Max Rachow and Alfons Rischer. Company name changed to “Rachow & Rischer Innereiengroßhandel”.

1922

Relocation to Hamburg and foundation of a butcher’s business, including wholesale marketing by the founder’s son Carl-Max Rachow and his wife Emmi Rachow, née Schmidt, in the Hamburg district of Eidelstedt.

1897

A mobile home butchery is founded by Carl Rachow near Bad Doberan, Mecklenburg.

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