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is decreasing, with an extreme decrease in the number of the companies under public
law. In 1993, there were 388 slaughtering companies. In respect to the overall number of
companies, however, the number of industrial slaughterhouses with more than 50.000 t
SW (slaughtering weight). The average slaughtering capacity of all companies in 1993
amounted to 11.400 t SW; that is an average slaughtering of 12.800 cattle and 83.000
pigs per company. More recent numbers from the Federal Association of dispatch slaugh-
terhouses are not available, but one can assume that the numbers for the year 2000 have
dropped slightly in comparison to 1993. The data are listed in Table 1-1.
Table 1-1: Size classes of slaughterhouses in 1993
Slaughterhouses 1993: total 388 plants
of which 50.000 t SW/a 15 plants
total 4.438.000 t SW
of which 50.000 t SW/a 25,6 %
The table shows that more than 65 % of the total slaughtering capacity is produced by
those 20 % of companies with a size of 20000 t SW/a and larger.
The geographical distribution of the single companies is shown in the following tables
and graphics. In this case, there is no subdivision according to the size of the respective
company.