Distribution and fresh logistics

Landbouwraden

The agricultural attaché network (LAN) supports Dutch companies in the agricultural sector with their international ambitions. The agricultural counsellors and their teams work in the economic departments of 57 Dutch embassies and/or consulates and serve from there 77 countries.

The agricultural counsellors are available for companies and entrepreneurs from the agricultural sector in all links of the chain: from starting material (seed) (animal feed) and primary products to end products, but also the processing industry, supply, technology, services, trade and logistics. The agricultural counsellors are assisted by a team of locally hired employees, including the agricultural advisors who have an excellent local and regional network and the policy and management support staff.

Together, as agricultural teams, they can quickly provide you with the right information to do business successfully:

• finding customized market information;
• obtaining information about laws and regulations, including commodity laws, in your market;
• information on and assistance with the resolution of veterinary and phytosanitary barriers to trade;
• starting up agricultural projects and chain management.

Dutch Flower Auctions Association

The VBN (the Dutch Flower Auctions Association) is the umbrella organization for Dutch cooperative floricultural auctions. Joint activities are carried out under the VBN banner on behalf of the Dutch floricultural auctions.

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Floriworld

FloriWorld is a high-profile and alluring attraction for national and international tourists, but also for relations and administrators, scholars and students and business visitors. FloriWorld is the home base of the sector and contributes to the top of mind position of flowers and plants of consumers and stakeholders.

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Flower Council of Holland

The Flower Council of Holland is responsible for the promotion of flowers and plants to consumers in various European countries.

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Fresh Produce Centre

Fresh Produce Centre promotes the interests of companies that are active in the sale of fruit and vegetables and is also a source of knowledge and inspiration. Fresh Produce Centre represents the interests of businesses involved in the sale and marketing of fruit and vegetables and is a source of knowledge and inspiration. Its members account for over 80% of total sales of fruit and vegetables in the Netherlands, which are worth around € 15 billion (including growers’ associations).

Fresh Produce Centre has around 320 members. The members are trading companies and growers’ associations involved in the sale and marketing of fruit and vegetables. They specialise in the domestic wholesale, import, export, treatment, processing, packaging, storage and transshipment of fruit and vegetables.

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Greenports Nederland

Greenports Nederland is the platform where the six Ducth regional Greenports, the business community, governments and education & knowledge institutions work together to achieve breakthroughs and acceleration on horticultural themes that require a national approach and that are not picked up by other parties. For example: theme's like labor market, energy, healthy plants and people, innovation, internationalization, spatial planning and fresh logistics.

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Nederland Distributieland

NDL is the association of and for the logistics sector with the main task of promoting the Netherlands as a European logistics hub abroad with the aim of attracting logistics investments and cargo flows for its members. Membership is open to all organizations that in one way or another benefit from strengthening the logistics sector in the Netherlands.

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RVO

The Netherlands Enterprise Agency supports entrepreneurs, NGOs, knowledge institutions and organisations. RVO aims to facilitate entrepreneurship, improve collaborations, strengthen positions and help realise national and international ambitions with funding, networking, know-how and compliance with laws and regulations.

RVO is a government agency which operates under the auspices of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. Its activities are commissioned by the various Dutch ministries and the European Union.

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Promoting interests at home and abroad, solving problems, answering queries, arranging debt collections, providing terms and conditions of sale and offering a wide range of services. That is the core business of Anthos, the Royal Trade Association for Nursery Stock and Flower Bulbs.

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Topsector Horticulture & Starting Materials

A topsector is a sector in which Dutch business and research centers excel worldwide. The Netherlands has nine, including Topsector Horticulture & Starting Materials.

Topsector Horticulture & Starting Materials comprises all vegetable chains in the horticultural complex and, for the starting materials, the total vegetable horticulture and agri-complex. The topsector therefore consists of the starting materials, production (greenhouses and open ground) sectors and the processing, supply, trade and distribution companies. It is a broad sector with subsectors ranging from vegetables, fruit and trees to flowers and bulbs. The starting material sector is about starting material such as seed, seedlings and seeds.

Within each Topsector, the parties have bundled themselves into Topconsortia for Knowledge and Innovation (TKI). The TKIs have drawn up research agendas and objectives for the coming years. Every topsector has its own possibilities that companies can use. You can think of financing your R&D projects (research & development), hire researchers for your innovation project or find collaboration partners.

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Transport en Logistiek Nederland

The logistics sector is one of the top sectors in which the Netherlands excels, also worldwide. Transport en Logistiek Nederland (TLN) works on a favorable business climate in the Netherlands and Europe. TLN supports and connect entrepreneurs in the transport and logistics sector. TLN represents the interests of its members: local, regional, national and European.

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VGB

The Association of Wholesalers in Flower Nursery Products (VGB) has the primary task of looking after the interests of its members: Dutch wholesalers in flowers and plants. On behalf of the trade, the VGB acts as spokesperson for the entire sector. fot themes like work, sustainability, market access, market information, standardization and ICT. The VGB is active in a large (inter) national network. The dealers affiliated with the VGB represent around 80% of the total trade in flowers, house plants and garden plants that goes from the Netherlands to a total of 116 countries.

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