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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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New voucher scheme for startups in food

08 June 2023

FoodValley NL will soon launch a new voucher scheme aimed at supporting startups in the food industry. In this new scheme, startups can receive up to €50,000 for scaling up technological pilot productions. The official p...

Belgium second largest food waster in Europe

07 June 2023

The Monitor Food Loss 2020 shows that Belgium, particularly Flanders, has wasted nearly 900,000 tons of edible food in 2020. This puts Belgium at the bottom of the European ladder, with only Cyprus doing worse. Bond Bete...

Demand for dairy remains a concern

07 June 2023

Despite the seasonal peak in European milk supply, spot prices for dairy products have remained stable or even increased slightly. However, this price rise does not seem to be in line with demand for dairy products, whic...

Major alliance for melted cheese: St. Paul, ERU and Kasi Food

07 June 2023

St Paul and Royal ERU have entered into a strategic partnership aimed at acquiring and integrating the processed cheese production of Kasi Food, currently part of Lekkerkerker Food.  The Dutch and Belgian processed ch...

Steam boilers equipped for the future

06 June 2023

There is a rising trend in the number of companies taking a critical look at their own business process to see where, in the near future or in the long term, sustainability can be achieved. This is the right time to take...

The new dimension in slicing

06 June 2023

The new powerful slicer SLX 2000, with up to four tracks, achieves exceptionally high slicing speeds, regardless of the product. Meats, cheese and their alternative protein products with a maximum length of up to 1,600 m...

Food industry less optimistic about sales growth

06 June 2023

Entrepreneurs in the food industry are less positive about expected sales growth in the second quarter of 2023 compared with the previous year. Only 16 percent of entrepreneurs now expect an increase, compared with nearl...

Competitive pressure hinders passing on costs

05 June 2023

Three out of four companies cannot (fully) pass on cost increases to customers, a recent survey shows. The expected worsening of the competitive position is the main reason for this.  The survey, conducted by CBS...

Hybrid potato: a revolution in the potato sector

05 June 2023

A pioneering development in the potato sector has the potential to increase global food security and make agriculture more sustainable. The hybrid potato is poised to revolutionize both agricultural areas in Africa and W...

Grassa and Livar collaborate on sustainable pig feed

05 June 2023

Livar, known for its Limburg monastery pigs, is partnering with Grassa, the innovative and sustainable grass processing concept. The partnership is aimed at supplying high-quality protein derived from Limburg grass to pi...

Half of Dutch people underestimate sugar intake

05 June 2023

A recent study by the Diabetes Fund shows that almost half of the Dutch (47.3%) think they consume 'only' 0 to 5 cubes of added sugars daily. In reality, this is on average 14 sugar cubes, which means we unknowingly inge...

Food prices continue to rise, but inflation rate declines

05 June 2023

Statistics Netherlands has released the preliminary inflation rate for May 2023. The data show that inflation has risen again in the Netherlands. The rise in the general price level could affect the purchasing power of h...

More monitoring and stricter rules slaughterhouses

02 June 2023

Once again, abuses have come to light in slaughterhouses. LNV minister Adema stressed that every incident where animal welfare is at stake is one too many. Therefore, the minister wants to strengthen supervision, ban ele...

From plastic free to future-proof plastics

02 June 2023

The increasing demand for plastics requires structural change. To make that happen, TNO, in collaboration with Fraunhofer UMSICHT, presents a white paper with four strategic approaches for a circular economy. In addition...

Sales of pesticides reduced in 2021

02 June 2023

Figures from CBS show that sales of pesticides in the Netherlands fell in 2021. A total of 9.4 million kilograms of active ingredient were sold, a 5 per cent drop from the previous year. Sales of fungicides in particular...