The Jokey Group
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Since 1968, Jokey has stood for outstanding expertise in plastic injection moulding. As a family-owned company based in Wipperfürth, Germany, we are one of the world’s largest manufacturers, innovators and technology leaders in the field of rigid plastic packaging and have been a pioneer in sustainable packaging for more than 30 years. Proximity to our customers, innovative strength and dynamic growth have transformed the small family business into an international company in the plastics processing industry with two business areas.

The Jokey Group’s main plants are in Wipperfürth and Gummersbach. The other subsidiaries are each assigned to Jokey SE or Jokey Gummersbach SE – a result of the product range and the respective sales markets. The legal form of the subsidiaries is the local version of a GmbH or an AG. The Jokey shareholders attach great importance to a solid financial policy and a healthy equity ratio. There are external minority interests in some subsidiaries. This applies, for example, to the plants in Algeria, Belarus, Russia and Turkey. This enables Jokey to continue to benefit from their existing technical expertise, market knowledge and customer contacts.

Jokey Packaging

Jokey manufactures rigid plastic packaging for food and non-food products. These include food, animal feed, medical products, building materials and construction chemicals. The product range includes buckets in round, oval or rectangular formats, as well as boxes and trays. In addition to our standard range, we also develop individual packaging solutions together with our customers and offer a comprehensive design service. A range of accessories, such as lid pourers or pump stoppers, is just as much a part of our offering as plastic closures for bottles, tubes and flexible packaging. In 2023, we also want to launch new reusable products for the to-go sector. Packaging accounts for more than 90 per cent of our business activities and we operate in European, North African and North American markets.

Jokey Bathroom

This division includes our bathroom range, which offers a wide selection of Jokey-brand mirror cabinets and Imagolux and KristallForm-brand mirrors. Jokey mirror cabinets are made of plastic, wood and aluminium. Like our extensive mirror range, they are available in many modern designs and offer well-thought-out functionality. All of our bathroom products are developed, designed, manufactured and pre-assembled at Jokey Sohland. They can be found in almost every major German DIY store and are also sold through online shops. Since 2022, we have also developed a sustainability programme for this business unit: the Jokey Eco Concept Bathroom. It comprises seven guiding principles and is based on the Jokey Eco Concept 4.0.

Jokey Eco Concept

The Jokey Group is majority-owned by the founding Kemmerich family. The main companies are Jokey SE, based in Wipperfürth, and Jokey Gummersbach SE, based in Gummersbach. Both have the legal form of a European Company (SE). The shares of the two stock corporations are not publicly traded on a stock exchange and are wholly owned by the founding Kemmerich family and their descendants.

The Jokey SE management team consists of four members. The highest management and supervisory body of the Jokey Group is the three-member SE Board of Directors, which is made up of two members of the owner families from the second and third generations as well as an external expert (as of 2021).

As a monistic SE, the SE Supervisory Board is the supreme body of Jokey SE and Jokey Gummersbach SE. It is the link between the managing directors and the shareholders and has a strategic control function. The Supervisory Board sees itself as representing the interests of the owner families.

Composition of the Supervisory Board

Ralf Kemmerich has been Chairman of the Jokey Board of Directors since May 2022. Anja Kemmerich has been Deputy Chairwoman of the Board of Directors since May 2022. Both represent the founding family in the third generation. Herbert Kemmerich, founding shareholder, CEO of the Jokey Group until the end of 2018 and Chairman of the Board of Directors until 2022, continues to be a member of this body. Dr Peter Kohler is an external member of the Board of Directors, contributing his many years of international experience gained in various management positions, including at the Weidmüller Group.

This means that since 2022, three members of Jokey SE’s Board of Directors have been members of the Kemmerich family of shareholders. They now contribute their many years of experience gained in their work within Jokey’s management to the further development of the Group’s strategic orientation. The main areas of focus are also distributed according to the different professional profiles: Ralf Kemmerich, a plastics engineer and business economist, focuses on technology. Anja Kemmerich focuses on finance. Herbert Kemmerich, due to his experience as a founding member and long-standing CEO, covers the main areas of customer contact, products and personnel. Peter Köhler, through his role as CEO of Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG, he also has many years of experience in the areas of management, family businesses and international markets. His focus on the Jokey Board of Directors is on the topics of strategy, digitalisation and compliance. In addition, he plays the important role of sparring partner and mediator between the shareholders. Peter Köhler is a member of various supervisory boards, and there are no conflicts of interest in this regard.

The members of the Supervisory Board are elected at the respective Annual General Meeting. The term of office is three years. Re-election is possible. When nominating candidates, criteria such as many years of market expertise, professional skills, expert knowledge and management experience in family-owned companies are taken into account.

The members of the Administrative Board work and decide independently, based on the Jokey Code of Conduct and the defined Jokey values. When composing the highest management body at Jokey, particular emphasis was placed on skills in the areas of strategy, technology, digitalisation and leadership.

The members of the SE Administrative Board do not hold leading positions in committees or associations. This is assumed by Jokey’s managing directors in the area of operational business.

The Jokey administrative board determines the operational and strategic orientation of the group. Among other things, this includes investment and budget planning as well as compliance with a wide range of guidelines. At the quarterly administrative board meeting, the managing directors inform the board about all projects and developments and provide their assessment and recommendations on the respective processes. The administrative board then makes the necessary decisions. The Board of Directors is supported by Jokey’s managing directors and the Jokey controlling department in reviewing the due diligence and other processes, and they also provide advice on risk management. Relevant stakeholders are involved in all important processes. Depending on the matter at hand, a bilateral exchange may take place between stakeholders and the Board of Directors.

The Board of Directors also determines the number of managing directors and appoints them in accordance with legal requirements. The managing directors are obliged to follow the instructions of the board of directors. In particular, they must observe the rules of procedure and may only carry out the transactions specified in the rules of procedure, the articles of association or a separate resolution of the board of directors as requiring approval with the approval of the board of directors. The board of directors is also responsible for concluding the employment contracts with the managing directors.