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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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'Meat successors are under a magnifying glass'

21 March 2023

Sales figures seem to be stagnating and the debate about low nutritional values is boiling over. Nevertheless, the Jan Zandbergen Group, one of the largest meat suppliers in Europe, is fully committed to meat substitutes...

Too Good To Go saved 18 million meals in 5 years

21 March 2023

Too Good To Go, the world's largest marketplace for surplus food, is celebrating its fifth anniversary in the Netherlands this month. In a relatively short time, the app against food waste has saved 18 million meals here...

Opportunities and challenges of blockchain for agri-food

21 March 2023

What are the most recent developments in the realm of blockchain applications? What opportunities and challenges does the technology present to the agri-food sector in the Netherlands? And what would help blockchain appl...

Zero downtime, maximum output at Simons Halal

20 March 2023

As a food producer today, you face many challenges. How can you still achieve maximum output? Simons Halal Food chose a Repak packaging machine that increases efficiency, has minimal downtime and is easy for everyone to ...

Will ‘meat shaming’ reduce meat consumption?

20 March 2023

'Meat shaming' stickers on meat packaging can have an inhibiting effect on meat purchases. Stickers that point to animal suffering, in particular, stir up feelings of shame, this is according to a Research by Anne-Madele...

Number of dairy cows hardly declined

20 March 2023

The number of dairy cows in the Netherlands remained almost the same in 2022, at 1.57 million. The number of pigs decreased slightly in the last year, while the goat herd grew slightly in size. This is according to final...

The importance of steam quality in the food industry

16 March 2023

Different steam qualities are used in industry. Each of them have different contamination risks. Steam quality can affect the quality and safety of the final food product. Therefore, it is important to have the right typ...

Meat and dairy tax addressed once again

16 March 2023

The cabinet wants at least a 55% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2030. The report 'Sharp goals, sharp choices' describes how the cabinet wants to tackle this, among other things a possible meat and dairy tax is mentione...

New method to measure environmental impact of food

16 March 2023

Foundation Earth recently published a new method to assess the environmental impact of food and drink products. The methodology, which proposes an improved version of the European Commission’s Product Environmental Fo...

FrieslandCampina opent lactoferrine productiefaciliteit

16 March 2023

FrieslandCampina Ingredients opende op 16 maart 2023 een nieuwe lactoferrine productiefaciliteit in Veghel om te voorzien in de stijgende wereldwijde vraag naar dit ingrediënt in zowel de kinder- als volwassenvoedingsmar...

Acquisition of Gosschalk by VanDrie Group cancelled

15 March 2023

After it was announced on 30 January 2023 that the VanDrie Group had entered into a letter of intent to acquire a majority stake in Exportslachterij J. Gosschalk en Zn. B.V. in Epe, that agreement has now been dissolved....

Farmers call for extraordinary organic boost

15 March 2023

Although with all the benefits it would seem logical that consumers would buy organic en masse, this is not yet the case. This is mainly due to the price, which is sometimes up to three times higher in supermarkets compa...

New method for iron fortification of foods

15 March 2023

Iron deficiency is one of the most common nutritional problems in the world. PhD candidate at Utrecht University Neshat Moslehi has designed compounds that could potentially be used for iron fortification of foods. This ...

Albert Heijn ceases using plastic bread clips

15 March 2023

Customers are seeing more and more products in a bag with a paper clip at Albert Heijn's bread department. The familiar square, plastic bread clips are gradually being replaced by a highly recyclable, paper variant.  ...

The solution for cap inspection of Tethered Caps

14 March 2023

From July 2024, all producers of Beer & Soft Drinks will be required to modify their PET bottles so that the cap stays on the bottle after opening. With the SUP legislation, the EU aims to reduce the amount of litter...