What Bizerba does

Bizerba is a German family-owned industrial technology company founded in 1866 in Balingen, Germany, now in its fifth generation of family ownership. The company designs, manufactures, and services precision hardware and integrated software for slicing, weighing, labeling, inspection, and payment applications across three primary vertical segments: fresh food retail (supermarkets, hypermarkets, specialty food retailers), food production and manufacturing (meat, poultry, fish processors), and industry and logistics. Its core product portfolio spans AI-enabled smart retail scales with computer vision object recognition, industrial checkweighers, precision slicing equipment, automated labeling systems (including CleanCut linerless labels), and vision inspection systems. The technology stack centers on the BRAIN2 platform alongside BRAINZ, RetailStore, GT-SoftControl, and CWS2 software products, with the Supersmart basket validation system representing an AI-powered self-checkout solution.

The company operates a global direct enterprise sales model, with manufacturing facilities in ten countries (Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Serbia, UK, China, Canada, USA) and service presence in 120 countries. Revenue is generated through three streams: one-time hardware capital sales, software licenses and subscriptions, and recurring service and spare parts revenue from the installed base of approximately 4,500-employee operations. Pricing is custom-quoted based on configuration and volume, reflecting the complexity of industrial equipment and the enterprise sales motion. Key customers include E.Leclerc (large French retail chain), Polryb (fish processing), Adros (poultry processing), and vinzenzmurr (meat and sausage retail, which piloted the anybill digital receipt integration).

Strategic priorities reflected in recent activity include the FANUC robotics partnership announced at Automatica 2025 (with the Robot-Assisted Sandwich Station product launch), the rollout of AI-powered smart scales and Supersmart validation, the Milton Keynes UK label production facility opened in 2022, and the South Africa market organization established in 2014. The company holds extensive ISO certifications (9001, 14001, 45001, 50001), EMAS environmental certification, DAkkS calibration laboratory accreditation, and permissions under multiple EU conformity assessment directives, providing regulatory credentials that serve as meaningful entry barriers in the regulated weighing and food processing equipment market.

Name

Bizerba

Legal name

Bizerba SE & Co. KG

Website

https://bizerba.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1866

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Bizerba is a fifth-generation, family-owned German industrial technology company founded in 1866 that designs and manufactures precision weighing, slicing, labeling, inspection, and AI-powered retail solutions for fresh food retailers, food processors, and logistics companies across 120 countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Weighing Equipment

NAICS

Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables (334513)

SIC

Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823)

akta.pro primary industry

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) & BI (HDAEAMAG)

Keywords

• Industrial weighing equipment
• Retail weighing scales
• Price labeling systems
• Food inspection technology
• Checkweighing machinery

Headquarters

HQ city

Joppa

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices11 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Hardware Sales: Sale of weighing, slicing, labeling, and inspection equipment including retail scales, industrial checkweighers, and food processing machinery. One-time capital purchase model typical for enterprise customers.
2. Software Licenses and Subscriptions: Software platforms including BRAIN2 and BRAINZ for managing equipment, data analytics, and retail operations. Likely includes both perpetual licenses and recurring subscription components.
3. Service and Spare Parts: After-sale service, maintenance, calibration, and spare parts supply for installed equipment base. Provides recurring service revenue from existing customer installations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Bizerba manufactures and sells industrial weighing, slicing, labeling and inspection hardware — including AI-enabled retail scales (K3, Q1, KH II Pro), industrial checkweighers, precision slicers and vision inspection systems — bundled with proprietary software platforms (BRAIN2, BRAINZ, RetailStore, GT-SoftControl, CWS2). Offerings target fresh-food retailers, food processing manufacturers, and industrial/logistics customers, with revenue derived from equipment sales plus recurring software, service and spare-parts contracts.

Product overview

Bizerba offers a comprehensive portfolio of precision hardware and integrated software solutions for slicing, processing, weighing, testing, labeling, and payment applications across retail, industry, and logistics sectors. The product portfolio centers on five core technology areas: slicing technology (precision food slicing equipment), weighing technology (retail and industrial scales including AI-enabled smart scales with object recognition), labeling systems (hardware, software, and consumables including CleanCut linerless labels), vision inspection systems (automated quality control and defect detection), and industrial weighing solutions. The software ecosystem includes the BRAIN2 platform for device management, RetailStore for Linux-based scales, GT-SoftControl for labelers/checkweighers, and CWS2 for checkweigher operations. Advanced offerings include AI-powered object recognition for fresh food retail environments and the Supersmart basket validation system. The portfolio is complemented by the MyBizerba customer portal and RefurBiz sustainability program for refurbished equipment. Production facilities are maintained in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Serbia, UK, China, Canada, and the USA.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• RefurBiz: Webshop offering used devices in original quality to extend product lifecycle and support circular economy
• MyBizerba

Products and services

• Slicing Technology Precision slicing equipment for fresh-food retail counters and food service, combining optimum fresh-food quality with economic efficiency.
• Weighing Technology (Retail Weighing Solutions) Retail weighing solutions including AI-enabled smart scales (K3, Q1, KH II Pro) with integrated computer vision for automatic recognition of produce, baked goods and prepared items, plus checkweighers and precision weighing instruments for fresh-food counters and self-service environments.
• Labeling Systems Complete labeling portfolio including hardware (labelers GLx/CWx families), labeling software (GT-SoftControl) and consumables such as CleanCut linerless labels, serving a wide array of retail and industrial applications.
• Vision Inspection Systems Inspection technologies (iS30, iS50) including metal detection, X-ray and checkweighing for food producers and manufacturers to ensure quality, traceability and regulatory compliance and automatically prevent distribution of defective products.
• Industrial Weighing Quick, accurate industrial weighing and checkweighing solutions for manufacturing and logistics applications, including CWx checkweigher product families and CWS2 checkweigher software.
• BRAIN2 Software Platform Central software platform for managing retail scales, devices and operations across retail environments, providing software-level management of weighing, slicing and labeling infrastructure.
• AI-Enabled Smart Scales with Object Recognition Intelligent weighing scales with integrated computer vision that automatically recognizes produce, baked goods and prepared items in fresh-food retail environments, eliminating manual price entry.
• Supersmart Basket Validation System AI-powered visual-recognition system for self-checkout that detects missed or double scans with over 95% accuracy at up to 120 transactions per hour per station, part of the 'Self Everything' retail strategy.
• Robot-Assisted Sandwich Station Automated robotic sandwich/snack preparation station unveiled at Automatica 2025, combining Bizerba's slicing technology with FANUC robotics, KILIVATIONS software, J. Schmalz vacuum technology and ViscoTec dosing for hygienic fresh-food preparation.

Quantifiable outcome

• Digital receipt archiving reduces manual data entry and storage costs while enabling automated compliance with fiscal requirements

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability3 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• FANUCcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Bizerba and FANUC announced a robotics partnership at Automatica 2025, combining Bizerba's food processing expertise with FANUC's robotics capabilities to develop automated solutions for food processing and packaging applications.
• anybillcoreTechnology or IntegrationBizerba collaborated with anybill to develop an API interface enabling digital archiving of receipts. This partnership allows retailers using Bizerba equipment to automatically digitize and archive transaction receipts for compliance and record-keeping purposes.
• vinzenzmurrminorOthersvinzenzmurr served as a pilot customer for the anybill digital receipt integration, testing the new API interface in a real retail environment before broader rollout.
• UK Industrial Vision AssociationminorOthersBizerba is a member of the UK Industrial Vision Association, an industry body focused on machine vision and imaging technologies relevant to Bizerba's inspection and recognition systems.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• CAS Corporation: Korean manufacturer of retail and industrial scales, weighing components, and labeling systems. Overlaps with Bizerba in retail POS scales, price-computing scales, and industrial weighing for food and logistics.
• Ishida: Japanese manufacturer of multihead weighers, checkweighers, and food packaging equipment for fresh and processed foods. Directly competes with Bizerba in checkweighing, weigh-price labeling, and food-processing inspection.
• Minebea Intec (Minebea Mitsumi): Industrial weighing and inspection technology (formerly Sartorius Intec), serving food, pharmaceutical, and logistics customers. Closely comparable to Bizerba's checkweigher, metal detection, and industrial scale portfolio.
• Fortress Technology: Specialist in metal detection and X-ray inspection equipment for food and packaging lines. Directly comparable to Bizerba's vision inspection product family (iS30, iS50) and checkweigher-integrated inspection offering.
• Anritsu: Manufactures checkweighers, metal detectors, and X-ray inspection systems for the food industry. Directly comparable to Bizerba's checkweigher and food-inspection portfolio, particularly for food production lines.
• Mettler-Toledo: Global market leader in precision industrial and retail weighing instruments, pipettes, and analytical instruments. Directly comparable to Bizerba in industrial weighing, checkweighing, and food retail scale categories, with a publicly disclosed scale an order of magnitude larger.
• Yamato Scale: Specializes in checkweighers, multihead weighers, and metal detectors for the food industry. Direct overlap with Bizerba's vision inspection, checkweighing, and food-processing weighing lines.
• Digi Group (Teraoka): Japanese manufacturer of retail scales, weigh-price labelers, and POS-integrated weighing solutions. Directly competes with Bizerba in fresh-food retail weighing and labeling across APAC, EMEA, and the Americas.

Broad incumbents

• Avery Berkel (ITW): Legacy retail scale brand now part of Illinois Tool Works (ITW), serving fresh-food retail weighing and labeling. Historically a direct competitor to Bizerba; ITW provides a much broader industrial portfolio as parent.

Emerging players

• Heat and Control: Supplies processing, weighing, and packaging equipment to food manufacturers globally. Adjacent overlap with Bizerba's food-production and checkweighing portfolio, with a stronger focus on snack and prepared-food processing.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/BizerbaUSA
• Facebookfacebook.com/bizerbaUS

Compliance16 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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