Horeca Groothandel Tilburg

What Horeca Groothandel Tilburg does

Horeca Groothandel Tilburg B.V. (HGT) is a family-owned Dutch wholesale distributor founded in 1981 and headquartered in Tilburg, Netherlands. The company supplies food, beverages, and non-food products to hospitality businesses (restaurants, cafes, hotels) and food retailers, primarily across the North Brabant region, with national delivery offered for specialized customers such as asparagus farms. Its assortment spans three divisions — Food (snacks, frozen meals, dairy, meat, fish, produce, coffee/tea, sauces), Drinks (soft drinks, water, beer, wine, spirits), and Non-Food (packaging and disposables, hygiene and cleaning, tableware and glassware, kitchen equipment) — combining third-party brands (Ardo, Heinz, Spa, Topking, Remia, Verstegen, etc.) with an emerging private-label line under the HGT brand.

The company operates a personal, sales-led go-to-market model: each customer is assigned a dedicated field representative and a fixed delivery driver making weekly scheduled routes via the company's own transport fleet, with external carriers used for larger orders above a €700 threshold. A self-service B2B webshop on a Magento/Hyva platform complements the field model, though pricing is gated behind a registered-account login and new customer onboarding requires a KvK (Chamber of Commerce) number. Orders are placed per-transaction with minimum order values of €400 (own transport) or €700 (external transport) excluding BTW. WhatsApp and direct phone lines support customer service.

HGT is privately held as a B.V. (Besloten Vennootschap) with no identified institutional investors, no funding rounds, no subsidiaries, and no disclosed parent company. Headcount is reported at 11-50 employees. The company has no app, no API, no disclosed technology stack beyond its e-commerce webshop, and no AI/ML capabilities. Operating status is active, and the business has maintained continuous presence in Brabant for 44 years without any disclosed M&A, leadership change, or restructuring events.

Name

Horeca Groothandel Tilburg

Legal name

Horeca Groothandel Tilburg B.V.

Website

https://hgt-tilburg.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

1981

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Horeca Groothandel Tilburg is a family-owned Dutch wholesale distributor founded in 1981, supplying food, beverages, and non-food products to hospitality businesses and food retailers in North Brabant, Netherlands, via dedicated sales reps, an own-fleet delivery network, and a registered-customer webshop.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Foodservice Wholesale Distribution

NAICS

General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers (424410)

SIC

Wholesale-Groceries, General Line (5141), Wholesale-Groceries & Related Products (5140)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYAFAIACAI

Foodservice / HORECA Produce Wholesale

Agriculture & Food Production/Food Distribution & Wholesale/Produce (Fresh Fruit & Vegetable) Wholesale

SECONDARYAFAIAHAG

Frozen Prepared Meals & Entrées Wholesale

Agriculture & Food Production/Food Distribution & Wholesale/Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Wholesale

Keywords

• Foodservice wholesale
• Horeca distribution
• Beverage wholesale
• Non-food supplies
• Hospitality procurement

Headquarters

HQ city

Tilburg

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Wholesale food and non-food distribution: Revenue is generated through the sale of food, beverages, and non-food products to the hospitality and food retail sectors. The company operates a webshop for existing customers and accepts orders by phone, email, and through the online platform. Pricing is shown exclusively to logged-in registered customers. No subscription model is described; transactions appear to be on a per-order basis.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Horeca Groothandel Tilburg is a family-owned Dutch wholesale distributor headquartered in Tilburg that supplies food, beverages (dranken), and non-food products to hospitality businesses (horeca) and food retail outlets, primarily across the North Brabant region. The company operates three product divisions (Food, Drinks, Non-Food), supports customers through a personal sales approach with dedicated field representatives, an online webshop for registered customers, and a logistics network combining an owned delivery fleet with external transport.

Product overview

Horeca Groothandel Tilburg is a family-owned hospitality wholesale business established in 1981, serving the foodservice and food retail industry in North Brabant, Netherlands. The company offers a complete assortment organized into three main divisions: Food (including snacks, frozen foods, cheese, meat, fish, dairy, vegetables, fruit, coffee, tea, sauces, fats and oils), Drinks (soft drinks, juices, water, beers, wines, and spirits), and Non-Food (packaging and disposables, hygiene and cleaning, tableware and glassware, and equipment and kitchen/office supplies). The product portfolio includes both private-label offerings (HGT branded products like tomato soup) and third-party brands such as Ardo, Red Band, Coolhull Farm, Manna, Pablo's Choice, Heinz, Spa, Alsa, Topking, Duca, Veggie Express, Lieshout, Remia, Gelato Antonio, and Verstegen. The company operates an e-commerce webshop platform where registered customers can browse products, view pricing, and place orders.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Food (wholesale food supply division) Wholesale food product range supplied to hospitality operators and food retail businesses in North Brabant.
• Dranken (wholesale beverages division) Wholesale beverage product range supplied to hospitality operators and food retail businesses in North Brabant.
• Non-Food (wholesale non-food supplies division) Wholesale non-food product range supplied to hospitality operators and food retail businesses in North Brabant.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• FrieslandCampina Professional: Dairy producer's professional foodservice division supplying dairy products to horeca and foodservice operators across Europe. Comparable as a supplier-side counterpart to HGT's dairy category offerings.
• Albron: Large Dutch contract caterer and foodservice provider serving hospitality, healthcare, education, and corporate clients. Adjacent to HGT through shared horeca end-customers, but operates as a contract caterer rather than a distributor.
• Appèl Catering & Facilities: Dutch contract caterer providing on-site hospitality and foodservice solutions. Adjacent to HGT through shared end-customers in workplace and institutional hospitality, though operating as a caterer rather than a wholesale distributor.

Direct peers

• Bidfood Netherlands: Dutch arm of the international Bidfood foodservice distribution group, delivering food, beverages, and non-food to horeca and institutional customers. Comparable to HGT in delivery-led foodservice wholesale model and product breadth, though operating at national scale.
• Sligro Food Group: Largest Dutch foodservice wholesaler, operating cash-and-carry and delivery formats serving horeca and institutional customers nationwide. Directly comparable to HGT in core product categories (food, drinks, non-food) and horeca customer base, but at vastly greater scale and with national coverage.
• Hollinger Horeca Service: Regional Dutch horeca wholesaler operating across multiple provinces with delivery and cash-and-carry formats. Closely comparable to HGT in family-business heritage, regional footprint, and personal service model.
• Hanos: Major Dutch cash-and-carry and delivery foodservice wholesaler serving horeca across the Netherlands and Belgium. Directly competes with HGT in the same product categories and horeca customer segment, with broader assortment and scale advantages.
• Vandersterre Groep: Dutch foodservice company operating VHC (catering supplier) and IJssalon IceSensation, focused on cheese, meat, and convenience foods for horeca and food retail. Comparable to HGT in horeca customer focus and Dutch food distribution.

Broad incumbents

• Makro Nederland: Dutch cash-and-carry chain of the Metro group serving horeca and small businesses with food and non-food assortments. Overlaps with HGT on horeca customer base and broad assortment, but operates a self-service warehouse format rather than delivery-led personal service.
• Metro Nederland: Cash-and-carry and delivery wholesaler for horeca and small businesses in the Netherlands. Comparable in assortment breadth and horeca customer focus to HGT, with a multi-channel model (in-store and delivered), but at significantly larger scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/HGT_tilburg
• Facebookfacebook.com/horecagroothandeltilburg
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/horeca-groothandel-tilburg-bv

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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