[2] Eckes AG is based in Nieder-Olm in the Rhine-Hesse region and was once actively involved in beverage production, now serves as the group's financial holding company.

Founded as a family-owned enterprise in 1857, Eckes AG has since sold off its German and international spirits business and focused exclusively on the production and sale of fruit beverages through the Eckes-Granini Group.

Following the acquisition of the international brand Granini in 1994, Eckes-Granini GmbH & Co. KG was established as an independent producer and distributor of juices and fruit beverages.

In addition to Eckes-Granini Deutschland GmbH in Nieder-Olm, the group now has subsidiaries in France, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Lithuania and Switzerland, and also maintains sales partnerships in many other European and non-European countries.

The history of the Eckes-Granini Group began in Nieder-Olm in the Rhineland-Palatinate, where the haulier and farmer Peter Eckes (1804-1873) founded a distillery for wine by-products in 1857.

The hohes C brand was entered in the Trademark Register in November 1957, and introduced to the market as the first ready-to-drink orange juice in bottles[4] in 1958.

After the reunification of Germany, Eckes acquired the traditional Nordhäuser distillery (Nordbrand Nordhausen) and relocated part of its spirits production facility.

[9] The group purchased the Austrian fruit juice producer Pago from Brau Union Österreich AG in 2012 and Rynkeby Food A/S of Denmark in 2016.