Fully convert to one and a half meter economy

At Vezet, some 800 permanent employees and 500 temporary workers ensure that all Albert Heijn stores are filled with pre-packed sliced fruit and vegetables and meal salads.

Vezet in times of corona

Marcel Jacobs, director of Vezet Warmenhuizen: "Every day here it is a challenge to process all the daily fresh products. Every morning there are about forty trucks and tractors on the doorstep. In times of corona, there are additional challenges. All our people are very much needed. Our work has been labeled as crucial, employees feel the same way".

"Fortunately, the fresh produce from the region kept going well. But fruit and vegetables from Italy and Spain, for example, became a lot more difficult due to border controls and drivers who were not welcome, as well as agricultural workers returning to their own countries. In addition, we quickly had to implement around sixty measures at the office and on the production lines. Line configurations were relocated, Plexiglas screens hung up, traffic flows and break times adjusted. And the speed of machines has been reduced - after all, we're through the one-and-a-half-metre rule with fewer people. Everything has now been set up in such a way that we will be able to maintain this one and a half meter economy for the next six months!

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