Ferrero SpA vs GEA Group

Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.

GEA Group is the older of the two, founded in 1881 — 65 years before Ferrero SpA.

Founded: 1946; 1881
Status: Active; Active
Headquarters: Alba, Italy; Düsseldorf, Germany
Industry: food industry; food industry
Founders: Pietro Ferrero; William Ralph Merton, Zachary Hochschild, Leo Ellinger, Carl Hamburger
Employees: 48,697; Not recorded
Legal form: società per azioni; Aktiengesellschaft
Listed on: Not recorded; OTC Markets Group
Website: ferrero.com; gea.com

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Ferrero SpA and GEA Group.