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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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ValuSect helps 18 SMEs with insect production

25 April 2022

The ValuSect consortium is glad to announce the attribution of €460.000 worth of services to 18 SMEs to boost their edible insect business. The selected SMEs will get help from our expert partners to develop their innova...

‘Growers adjust strategy due to high energy prices'

25 April 2022

As a result of the explosive rise in energy prices, greenhouse horticulture entrepreneurs are adjusting their cultivation strategy. Their ambition remains to achieve climate-neutral cultivation. That is why they support ...

DP&S is 'Futureproof' in every aspect

21 April 2022

Dutch Protein & Services (DP&S) is all set for the sustainable market of the future. The Dutch family business has been a reliable name in the food industry for more than 50 years, as a supplier of total solution...

North Holland supports 3 initiatives for local food

21 April 2022

The Province of Noord-Holland finds it important that more people eat food from their own region. To encourage this, the province organised a challenge that is part of the implementation agenda of Voedsel Verbindt (Food ...

Earlier and more effective communication about product improvement

21 April 2022

The House of Representatives requests the government, together with food producers, to draw up alternatives for earlier and more effective communication about product improvement, within the framework of European legisla...

Share of sustainable quality labels rises in 2021

21 April 2022

The share of products with a more sustainable label in total food sales in supermarkets continues to grow. In 2021, sales of more sustainable products grew stronger than total food sales in supermarkets, reaching the hig...

'There is little supervision of mechanically separated meat'

21 April 2022

A new opinion poll commissioned by Foodwatch shows that 72% of consumers do not know what mechanically separated meat (MSM) is. 74% of respondents do not know which products contain MSM. Foodwatch claims that the State i...

UMC Utrecht does allergy tests with novel foods

19 April 2022

UMC Utrecht will coordinate an international study that will develop methods to assess the allergic potential of so-called "novel foods" (such as insect burgers). The food allergy research project is called 'Allergenicit...

Government sets aside 60 million euros for cultured meat and dairy

19 April 2022

The Dutch government has announced that it will reserve 60 million euros for education, research and upscaling in the field of cultured meat and dairy (cellular agriculture). The aim is to further develop the Dutch cultu...

Labour shortage demands creativity from food companies

19 April 2022

Scarcity in the labour market is slowing down the growth of food companies. The shortage of people requires maximum creativity from entrepreneurs in engaging and binding staff in order to secure future growth. In additio...

Fooditive wants Novel Food permit for sweetener

15 April 2022

Fooditive, a pioneer in the development of vegetable ingredients, is preparing for a gamechanger in the industry: a Novel Food permit from the Europian Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for its sweetener. The Dutch company ha...

EC rejects proposal to promote European plant-based food

15 April 2022

The European Commission (EC) is again allocating €38.1 million to the promotion of animal products under the scheme for information provision and promotion for agricultural products. The Green Protein Alliance (GPA) subm...

Foil coding more than 100 types of candy at Matthijs

14 April 2022

Each year, the Matthijs confectionery factory in Hoogerheide produces approximately 9.5 million kilos of candy. It started with the famous Manneke Pis liquorice and has now grown into an international player with product...

Convent Capital introduces Agri Food Growth Fund

13 April 2022

Convent Capital announces the launch of its new Agri Food Growth Fund on April 12th 2022, which offers growth capital to innovative and sustainable companies in the AgriFood industry. The fund has raised more than €50 mi...

NVWA finds medicine residue in beef

13 April 2022

The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has found excessive concentrations of (prohibited) medicine residues in beef. It concerns limited excesses of anti-inflammatories, painkillers and antibiotics. ...