About us
Since 2021, The Quality Group is home to the brands ESN and More Nutrition. We strive to offer our customers high-quality products that enhance their health and performance. We are pursuing this goal with great passion and have developed a unique digital direct-to-consumer & social commerce business model. Our products are developed and produced in-house with the highest quality standards.
Vision
Our vision is to help people achieve their individual goals and become the best version of themselves.
Mission
We realise this vision by developing and offering health, performance and wellness-oriented products of the highest quality. We enable our customers to live a healthier life and lifestyle through improved fitness and wellness. In doing so, we create strong communities and promote a unique lifestyle.
Values of the Quality Group
Agility
Our corporate culture is dynamic and performance-orientated, actively promoting change and innovation. Together with customers, partners and employees, we are constantly evolving. Agility, pragmatism and responsible action characterise our everyday life. We grow with challenges, react flexibly to market changes and adapt to the needs of our customers.
Agility is firmly embedded in our DNA.
Quality
Quality, enjoyment, health, performance and joie de vivre is at the heart of everything we do, and this is reflected in all our activities and products. We are convinced that these principles go hand in hand and enrich each other. With our high-quality products, we actively promote the health, performance and well-being of our customers.
We combine quality, enjoyment, health, performance and joie de vivre.
Customer proximity / excellence
We base our decisions primarily on the needs of our customers. We continuously develop innovative, science-based solutions and always strive for improvement. Open and honest communication is our principle, through which we take responsibiålity for our actions.
We put our customers at the heart of everything we do.
Passion
Our passion for excellent products and the well-being of our customers is what drives us. It is reflected in our ambition and our enthusiasm for what we do. We drive the development of new products with courage and curiosity.
Passion is the driving force behind our success.
The Quality Group operates two main brands
ESN: Founded in 2004, ESN has established itself as the German market leader in sports nutrition and the go-to-brand for high performance. ESN offers a wide range of products, such as protein powders, protein bars and supplements, to support ambitious training goals and enhance individual physical capabilities. Operating its own production site in Germany, the brand is dedicated to provide only highest-quality sports nutrition and supplements, made for athletes.
More Nutrition: Established in 2017, More Nutrition is the primary provider of health nutrition products and weight loss supplements in Germany. More Nutrition offers a wide range of low-calorie and protein-rich products as well as supplements, to enable a healthier lifestyle without sacrifice or compromise.
The Quality Group's business has been expanding swiftly. With annual sales amounting to more than EUR 680 (2023) million, The Quality Group is on a strong growth trajectory and shows healthy profitability. The Group is managed by a world-class leadership team: Since 2022, The Quality Group has been jointly owned by its founders, an experienced management team and CVC Capital Partners, one of the leading private equity investors in the world. CVC's network comprises 25 offices globally, making it one of the most geographically diverse and longest-established networks of any private equity or credit investor worldwide. CVC’s mission is to build better businesses in partnerships alongside founders and families. In the DACH region, CVC is well-known for its investments in companies like Evonik, Douglas and Breitling as well as a long-standing partner of the RAG Stiftung.
Who we are
Being a member of The Quality Group’s team means being part of a high-performance company with a diverse culture. In our fast-growing team of over 1.200 employees, we combine our passion for sports nutrition, supplements and healthy food with state-of-the-art technology, production, and logistics processes. And we do this to ensure one thing: to provide our customers with top-quality products for their healthy and fit way of living.
Our Leadership-Team
Heikki Takala has been CEO of The Quality Group since May 2024 and is therefore responsible for the overall management of the company, its continuous development and international expansion. As an experienced leader, he brings a global perspective and extensive experience in successfully building international brands and organizations and has been a member of The Quality Group's Advisory Board since 2022. Originally with P&G for 18 years in various pan-European and global leadership roles, Heikki achieved industry-leading results as CEO of Amer Sports with a portfolio of world-class sports and sports lifestyle brands such as Arc'teryx, Salomon, Wilson, Atomic and Peak Performance.
Join the Team
Would you like to join our team at The Quality Group and help revolutionize the sports nutrition and dietry nutrition industry? We are always looking for highly motivated team members who enjoy a dynamic work environment and want to make a difference. Explore exciting professional opportunities in technology, marketing, logistics, and more on our career page!
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