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What a year 2024 was! The food industry was bursting with innovations, ambitious projects, and striking trends. From sustainable production facilities to groundbreaking technologies – these were the stories that caught y..

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Maarten Elsinga: new CEO Zwanenberg

17 October 2018

Maarten Elsinga will join Zwanenberg Food Group in Almelo on 1 January 2019 as Chief Executive Officer of Zwanenberg Nederland. He will also be a board member of Zwanenberg Holding. Jeannette van den Ingh and Coert Be...

Food and online sales are growing rapidly

17 October 2018

According to Statistics Netherlands, retail turnover in August 2018 was 3.4 percent higher than in August 2017. The sales volume grew by 3.2 percent. Both the food sector and the non-food sector achieved higher turnover....

Food production cause of natural loss

17 October 2018

91 percent of Dutch people do not know that food production is the biggest cause of nature loss worldwide. This is the conclusion of a study published by the World Wildlife Fund on World Food Day (16 October). This aware...

Group of Butchers acquires Hartmann

17 October 2018

Group of Butchers, the Dutch supplier of high-quality meat and mince-based products in which Equistone Partners Europe acquired a majority stake in January 2017, announced the acquisition of Hartmann GmbH, a leading fami...

Robots and reducing food waste

17 October 2018

Robotisation can reduce food waste. Robots can compensate for labour shortages in the food sector. Despite challenges, the food industry is ready for robots. Big data and artificial intelligence pave the way for robot...

Dutch veal to China

16 October 2018

The VanDrie Group's subsidiary organisation, Ekro, was the first European veal abattoir to receive approval to export veal products to China. This is a breakthrough in the 17-year negotiation process on the export of Dut...

TiFN delivers 200 PhD’s in food sector

16 October 2018

12 oktober 2018 slaagde TiFN haar 200ste promovendus kandidaad. Mariya Tarazanova is, net als al deze jonge innovatoren, opgeleid om de kloof tussen wetenschap en industrie te overbruggen. Het proefschrift dat Mariya Tar...

Statement Bord Bia on report Wakker Dier

16 October 2018

Animal welfare is one of the four key elements of the Irish quality system SBLAS for beef and lamb, alongside food safety, environmental protection and traceability. "Wakker Dier's suggestion that animal welfare is not i...

Launch of the FNLI Award

16 October 2018

The FNLI has launched a new prize at its annual meeting: the FNLI Award. The Front Runner Prize of the food industry! This prize will be awarded for the first time in 2019. The FNLI Award rewards the best initiative or p...

Empack and Logistics & Distribution

15 October 2018

1 big event, 2 halls. On 3 & 4 October Brussels Expo was the place to be for the packaging sector but also for the logistics and distribution sector. The combination between Empack and Logistics & Distribution wa...

Vendrig in a 'fresh coating'

15 October 2018

Vendrig makes a fresh start. With a new corporate identity, slogan, website and a new logo, the family business from IJsselstein wants to communicate more clearly to the public what it stands for. Vendrig provides wor...

VIRTO Group acquires Oerlemans

12 October 2018

Virto Group, the leading Spanish producer and distributor of frozen vegetables, has acquired Oerlemans Foods Group. Oerlemans is a producer and supplier of fresh frozen fruit and vegetables based in Waalwijk, the Netherl...

A one sided view of the meat sector

12 October 2018

The Central Organisation for the Meat Sector (COV) regrets the way in which Investico's investigative journalists portray working in the Dutch meat sector in De Groene Amsterdammer. It's portrayed rather one-sidedly and ...

Marketing report for the butcher industry 2018

12 October 2018

Marktdata.nl has conducted an extensive survey among butchers in the Netherlands. The research results have been published in the Marketing Report for the butcher industry 2018, published 12 October 2018. The Marke...

‘FACT opens its doors’

12 October 2018

In cooperation with Provinsje Fryslân, the business sector and Nordwin College, Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences has invested €4 million to realise a Food Application Centre for Technology (FACT) at its...