Private company

LSG Sky Chefs

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Aviation Service Company

LSG Group is an aviation services company that manages multiple brands, including LSG Sky Chefs and Retail inMotion. The company's world headquarters is located in Neu-Isenburg, near Frankfurt, Germany. Its North American headquarters is located in Irving, Texas, United States.2 It is part of Aurelius Group.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1966Founded1

LSG Group is an aviation services company that manages multiple brands, including LSG Sky Chefs and Retail inMotion. The company's world headquarters is located in Neu-Isenburg, near Frankfurt, Germany. Its North American headquarters is located in Irving, Texas, United States. It is a subsidiary of the Aurelius Group after being sold by former owner Lufthansa in 2023.2

Corporate structure

LSG Sky Chefs is part of a group headed by Aurelius Group. 9 entities, 5 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Aurelius Group Grünwald, Germany
    • LSG Sky Chefs Neu-Isenburg
    • Eykon Subsidiary · Cham, Switzerland
    • VAG Armaturen Subsidiary · Mannheim, Germany
    • AURELIUS Equity Opportunities AB Subsidiary · 100% · Stockholm, Sweden
    • Calachem LTD Subsidiary · 100% · Manchester, United Kingdom
    • GhOTEL Deutschland GmbH Subsidiary · Bonn, Germany
    • HY Beteiligungs GmbH Subsidiary · Grünwald, Germany
    • Silvan Subsidiary · Aarhus Municipality, Denmark

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

1942 — American Airlines creates Sky Chefs, Inc. as a wholly owned subsidiary.

1966 — Deutsche Lufthansa creates LSG Lufthansa Service GmbH as a wholly owned subsidiary.

1979 — Sky Chefs moves its headquarters from New York to Irving, Texas in conjunction with American Airlines’ move to Fort Worth.

1982 — Sky Chefs becomes a subsidiary of American Airlines' newly formed holding company AMR Corporation.

1986 — Toronto-based Onex Capital Corporation acquires Sky Chefs from AMR for $170 million (C$99 million). Sky Chefs becomes a subsidiary of Onex Food Services Inc.

1993 — LSG acquires 25 percent of Sky Chefs from Onex for $75 million. LSG and Onex Food enter a joint marketing agreement to operate under the common brand "LSG Lufthansa Service/Sky Chefs."

1995

Onex acquires Caterair International Corp. for $516 million.

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Lufthansa creates LSG Lufthansa Service Holding AG, a wholly owned subsidiary and holding company for all catering activities.

1998 — Onex acquires the airline catering operations of New York-based Ogden Corporation for $84.8 million.

1999 — LSG acquires an additional 23 percent of Sky Chefs.

2001 — LSG acquires Onex Corporation's remaining 47 percent stake in Sky Chefs for $827 million (C$1.3 billion).

2016 — LSG acquires Retail inMotion.

2018 — LSG launches Evertaste brand for packaged products.

2018 - LSG Sky Chefs co-founded the Airline Catering Association, which is based in Brussels, Belgium.

2020 - Gategroup acquired the European business of LSG Group.

2023 - The remaining international business of the LSG Group has been sold by Lufthansa to Aurelius Group.

From Wikipedia’s article on LSG Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

Former owners and parents

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Timeline

  1. 2023Acquired Acquired by Aurelius Group1
  2. 1966Founded Founded1

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