Article: Fifty years and counting for apetito group; founder Karl Dusterberg marks anniversary.(VEGETABLE TRENDS)(Company overview)

He got the idea when reading about frozen TV dinners in a copy of Life magazine, an American publication that had somehow found its way to Germany in 1958.

Karl Dusterberg, 41-years-old at the time, a wholesaler of fruits and vegetables at Rheine, asked himself: why not process the food items he was selling? And so, in April of 1958, he founded apetito AG, today Germany's leading caterer to the foodservice sector. This is the company's golden jubilee year.

With ten fellow workers he started producing four different ready meals, frozen in aluminum trays. Dusterberg first sought to sell to private households, but soon found that his best customers were ...

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