Prünte – Quality out of tradition The Wilhelm Prünte GmbH is a family-owned business, specialised in the production of highest quality Pumpernickel and whole grain rye bread. We proudly look back on 6 generations of baking experience. Having emerged from a small bakery in the Münsterland region in Northern Germany, the company has continuously maintained the values of traditional baking. The art of bread-baking is the key guideline for all our business activities. We always strive to exceed our customers’ expectations with our quality and our service. We rigorously ensure the high quality of our products and challenge ourselves to offer exceptional service to our customers. The specialists The Prünte bakery has specialised in the production of highest quality Pumpernickel and other whole grain rye bread. This focus on our core competencies allows us to continuously ensure our leading position. This has been the basis for steady success of our business over generations. We do not rest in trying to become a little better each day. To successful cooperation Mutual trust, openness and honesty play an important role for us, because this is the only way to create the highest degree of performance and quality awareness. These company values guide us in our daily interaction in order to be a trustworthy and reliable partner for our customers, suppliers, and last but not least the consumers. Craftsmanship Although the business has grown from a small bakery to a company, manual production processes are still at the centre of our activities. Our excellent bakers again and again succeed in creating an extraordinary bread assortment, unique in taste and variety. Naturalness – authenticity – taste The best natural ingredients used by us guarantee an authentic, perfect taste and premium quality. For us, bread is a pure product of nature without any artificial additives. We exclusively use our homemade ecological sourdough and refrain from adding preservatives. Our breads are a unique combination of excellent taste and a healthy nutrition. We ensure this purity and quality with our traditional Prünte Seal on every package! Craftsmanship for 6 generations Prünte – For six generations this name stands for an unparalleled quality of whole grain rye bread based on a long bakery tradition. It started with a small craftsman bakery in the Münsterland region, founded by Georg Prünte in 1778. In the 1930s, Wilhelm Prünte started to run a bakery in Gelsenkirchen. By that time, the mining industry was flourishing in the Rhine-Ruhr region, with hungry miners asking for tasty bread – a promising market for a baker. The main focus of our medium-sized company still lies on the home region of Rhineland and Westphalia, where we serve local grocery stores as well as bakeries with an own fresh service. But not only our regional consumers appreciate the special taste of Prüntebread, but the exceptional taste and nutritional value of our Westphalian specialities is increasingly discovered outside of Germany. Freshness and shelf-life – a special challenge We do not stock our bread. Our bread is baked freshly for each customer upon placement of a purchase order. From our point of view, this is the only way to guarantee the consumer a best possible freshness. As a basic principle, we do not use any preservatives. Through means of the mild process of pasteurisation we are able to realise shelf-lives of several months. Our know-how allows us to obtain an extra long-lasting fresh keeping, so that the exceptional taste of the bread is being preserved for a particularly long time.