Competence in taste

Good taste, high quality and a fine nose for trends are the main aspects of our success. With nearly 400 employees and numerous foreign representations, we are one of the leading spice-specialists in Europe. This is our pretension, that we always challenge with all our knowledge and ability, actual technic and intensive consulting-services. High quality and production safety is a self-understanding for us. We are certificated by IFS higher level, BRC and fulfil the requirements of Bio Norm (EG) Nr. 834/2007.

AVO is your competent partner in processing and developing meat specialities, sausages, fish, seafood, delicacy, ready-to-eat meals, bakery and dairy products. Also for the manufactures of pastry, potato- and vegetable-specialities, soups and sauces we can offer a multitude of excellent flavourings and additives.

Our customers are well-known national and international food companies starting from traditional butchers, food industry, supermarket chains, wholesalers and caterers. With our trendy products and the acceptance of our customer services, we cover the high expectations of a strong expanding convenience-market.

Technology themes as binding, emulsifiers, optimum of taste, fresh-keeping for different products is the main subject for us, such as the support of professional production and presentation of products in snack-bar, delicatessen counter and partyservice. In our different seminars you get fit and in shape for the future.



With more than 4.000 products we guarantee standardized and individual taste- and unique-solutions. We offer a complete range of

As early as almost 150 years ago did visionary AVO founder and name lender August Vodegel furnish proof of the fact that good taste can be successfully married to good business savvy. In hindsight it seems that he knew it all along, because spice condiments and curing agents bearing his composing and developmental signature would soon enjoy such a great reputation, extending far beyond the bounds of his own butcher business, that selling those products to colleagues in the trade and dealers supplying the industry was an activity not long in waiting.

In 1921, manufacture and distribution of seasonings and functional ingredients was assigned to the then founded new company August Vodegel Osnabrück, a name which rapidly converted to AVO as a more readily recognized and more easily remembered company brand. After the erstwhile founder´s death, the senior partner August Beisse took over the helm, holding the company, all adverse conditions of those times notwithstanding, on a steady course to continued success - a course which, in fact, has been faithfully followed into this day and age.