Top Fresh

What Top Fresh does

Top Fresh is a privately held Dutch agricultural company that grows, processes, and trades root crops — notably carrots and parsley root — for wholesale and retail customers. The company is headquartered in Kraggenburg, Netherlands, and operates a vertically integrated model spanning primary cultivation, post-harvest processing, and downstream trade distribution. Founded in 2005, Top Fresh has operated continuously for nearly two decades in a narrow product category within the European fresh produce supply chain.

The company employs between 51 and 100 people, placing it in the SME tier of European produce operators. Its business model combines upstream agricultural production with midstream processing and wholesale/retail trading, which enables capture of margin at multiple stages of the value chain. Top Fresh serves both wholesale and retail client segments, suggesting a dual-channel go-to-market rather than reliance on a single distribution route. The website (topfresh.nl) is currently a minimal loading/verification page and does not disclose pricing, certified customer logos, product specifications, certifications, or proprietary technology.

No public information is available on the company's ownership structure, investor base, management team, financial performance, certifications, export markets, or technology stack. The firmographic data available is limited to name, location, founding year, employee count, and the high-level functional description. Accordingly, assessment of Top Fresh's competitive position, financial scale, strategic direction, and AI/technology adoption must rely on the broad category context of European root-crop production and trading rather than disclosed company-specific metrics.

Name

Top Fresh

Website

https://topfresh.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Top Fresh is a privately held Dutch agricultural company that grows, processes, and trades root crops including carrots and parsley root, supplying wholesale and retail clients. Founded in 2005 and based in Kraggenburg, Netherlands, it employs 51-100 people.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fresh Produce

NAICS

Other Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon Farming (111219), Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers (424480)

SIC

Agricultural Production-Crops (100), Wholesale-Farm Product Raw Materials (5150)

akta.pro primary industry

Root & Tuber Vegetable Farming (Carrots, Beets, Radish, Turnip, Sweet Potato) (AFAGADAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Fresh Vegetable Wholesale (AFAIACAB)

Keywords

• Fresh root crops
• Vegetable processing
• Wholesale produce
• Carrot supply
• Agricultural trading

Headquarters

HQ city

Kraggenburg

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel

Core offering

Top Fresh grows, processes, and trades root crops such as carrots and parsley root. The company supplies these fresh produce items to wholesale and retail clients, operating from Kraggenburg in the Netherlands.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Root Crop Supply

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Lamb Weston / Meijer: Global frozen-potato processor with significant European operations including processing of root and tuber crops. Comparable through shared Dutch processing heritage (Meijer originated in the Netherlands) and processing-of-roots activity, though focused on frozen rather than fresh.
• HZPC: Largest Dutch seed potato company operating globally in propagation and trading of root/tuber crops. Comparable as a Dutch-rooted operator in the root-crop value chain, though focused upstream on seed/breeding rather than fresh consumption carrots and parsley root.
• McCain Foods: Global frozen-food major with large-scale processing of root vegetables (potatoes, carrots) across Europe including the Netherlands. Comparable in the processing and trading of root crops, though at vastly greater scale and oriented to frozen rather than fresh channels.
• Ardo Group: Belgian-headquartered European processor of frozen vegetables including root crops, supplying retail and foodservice. Comparable as an integrated grower-processor-trader of root vegetables in Northwest Europe serving wholesale and retail channels.

Direct peers

• Greenyard: Belgium-based, vertically integrated fresh produce giant that grows, processes, and distributes fruits and vegetables (including root crops) across Europe. Highly comparable to Top Fresh in business model, though materially larger in scale and customer footprint.
• Total Produce (Dole plc): Ireland-headquartered global fresh produce company with significant Dutch and European operations in root vegetables and salads. Comparable to Top Fresh as a multi-stage fresh-produce supplier with wholesale and retail customer mix.
• Nature's Pride: Netherlands-based grower and trader of fresh fruits and vegetables for European retailers. Comparable in geographic base, integrated grower-trader model, and focus on supplying wholesale and retail customers with fresh produce.
• The Greenery: Dutch fresh produce cooperative that supplies supermarkets, foodservice, and wholesale with vegetables including root crops. Directly comparable as a Netherlands-based grower-trader of carrots and similar vegetables serving retail and wholesale channels.
• Bakker Barendrecht: Dutch fresh produce supplier serving Albert Heijn and other retail customers with vegetables and fruit from Dutch and European growers. Directly comparable as a Netherlands-based fresh vegetable trader serving wholesale and retail channels.

Regional players

• Nedato: Dutch growers' cooperative specializing in potatoes and root vegetables for retail and foodservice. Comparable as a Netherlands-based producer cooperative in the root-crop category, though primarily focused on potatoes rather than carrots and parsley root.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/topfresh.nl
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/topfreshbv

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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