The steady squeeze on profit margins throughout the German dairy sector is reflected in Bemhard Pointner's summing-up of the current market situation. Pointner is managing director of Berchtes-gadener Land, one of the country's smaller dairies, but still one of the most successful. The dairy processes 200 million kg milk annually. Its director points out that dairies everywhere over the past two years had faced cost rises in packaging materials, energy and logistics "going well into double percentage figures." Pointner recalls that in the 1960s, there were 3,000 German dairies.
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