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2025 Trend Report for the Food and Beverage Industry

2025 promises to be a transformative year for the food and beverage sector. Strengthen your business strategy and gain a lasting competitive edge with this practical guide to the industry’s most significant challenges an..

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Criteria for European Nutri-Score adapted

18 August 2022

A seven-country working group in Europe has adopted adjusted criteria for the introduction of Nutri-Score. The changes are intended to make the index proposed by France more public-friendly with 'dietary recommendations'...

Iglo: frozen food key in fight against food waste

17 August 2022

Although 75 percent of Dutch people think about wasting food when they buy fruit and vegetables, the same percentage regularly throw vegetables away because they have passed their expiry date. Iglo suggests that much of ...

Vion strengthens position eastern Germany

17 August 2022

Vion Food Group is on the highway to the new states of Germany – with tens of millions in investment and expansion of its site in Thuringia. Vion Food Group has long supported the trend towards greater regionalism among ...

Record number of company closures in food industry

16 August 2022

In the first half of this year, 310 companies in the food industry closed their doors. The number of closures has never been so high since Statistics Netherlands started measuring the number of company closures in 2007. ...

Last mile has great impact on the environment

16 August 2022

Dutch consumers expect to do more and more of their shopping online in the coming five years. This is evident from research conducted by GfK on behalf of Thuiswinkel.org. The expected online sales share has risen from 37...

Fisheries to shrink by 10 to 15 per cent until 2030

16 August 2022

The trawler fisheries is in dire straits. After two difficult coronary years, in which the fishery was hit by falling prices and turnover, high fuel costs are causing problems in many cases. About a third of fishermen ex...

UPDATE: Sustainable labour in meat sector

15 August 2022

In the summer of 2021, various talks were held with the then Ministers of LNV and SZW, trade unions and the Animal Protection Society about the position of employees in the meat sector. These talks led to an initiative b...

Plant-based meat now cheaper on average than meat

15 August 2022

Meat, dairy products, vegetables, fruit, bread, petrol… everything has become more expensive due to inflation and high raw material prices. Everything, except plant-based meat alternatives. While meat prices have incr...

KIDV compares international disposal logos

03 August 2022

The KIDV has made an initial comparison of the use of disposal logos on packaging in various European countries. KIDV published an overview of this, which makes it clear to companies which logos are used in those countri...

Nature organisations want tax on meat and dairy

02 August 2022

Nature and environmental organisations want the government to take the lead in stimulating a healthy and sustainable diet, with measures such as: restrictions on advertising for meat and dairy products, stimulating veget...

Sustainable straws turn out to be unsustainable

02 August 2022

As an alternative to plastic straws, paper straws are mostly used nowadays. These straws are often advertised as 100% biodegradable, but are these plastic alternatives really sustainable and biodegradable? Two bachelo...

73.7 percent less pork to China

01 August 2022

In the first half of 2022, China's pork imports fell by more than half (73.7 per cent) compared to the same period in 2021. The main reason for the decline is China's higher domestic pork production. Chinese pork product...

SEA Water converts salt water into drinking water

29 July 2022

In August 2022, SEA Water will launch its first product in the Netherlands. SEA Water converts local seawater into drinking water. They do this using an innovative technique powered by solar energy. This makes SEA Water ...

Research into usable side streams for insect cultivation

28 July 2022

An alliance of insect breeders, consultancies, natural capital managers and an animal feed manufacturer will be investigating low-value side streams. These raw materials can be processed into substrate: the nutrient basi...

Number of pesticides on strawberries increased

27 July 2022

In a survey of pesticides in strawberries from supermarkets 2022, the average number of substances found per sample and the average content have increased slightly compared to 2021. Despite all the sustainability program...