What Bakkers Brigade does

Bakkers Brigade BV is a Dutch artisanal bakery that produces and distributes fresh bread, pastries, and cakes to the foodservice industry across the Netherlands. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, the company operates a secondary production facility in Amsterdam (Tijnmuiden 18a) and runs an owned fijnmazige (dense) distribution network with collection hubs nationwide, enabling daily fresh delivery to customers throughout the country. Bakkers Brigade is part of the Top Bakkers Groep cooperative, a network of 45 independent artisan bakeries that together provide national coverage while preserving local artisan character.

The company produces under HACCP standards across two facilities and offers a broad assortment including a standard bread and pastry range, spelt-based products, hand-made artisan bread, cakes (via the wholly-owned subsidiary Taart Brigade, a B2B cake-ordering web shop), and frozen specialty bakery products (via the Almost Ready Frozen sub-brand). Distribution is direct-to-customer through the company's own logistics network, supported by a B2B ordering portal.

Bakkers Brigade serves five primary verticals — horeca (hospitality), catering, healthcare (zorg), wholesale (groothandel), and retail — with daily recurring B2B deliveries. Revenue is generated through quotation-based direct sales on a transaction/recurring basis; pricing is not publicly disclosed. The company employs 51-100 people and is a private family-owned business with no external funding disclosed. Its value proposition centers on combining artisanal product quality with industrial-scale production and a nationwide, owned, daily-fresh logistics capability.

Name

Bakkers Brigade

Legal name

Bakkers Brigade

Website

https://bakkersbrigade.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

1975

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Bakkers Brigade BV is a Dutch artisanal bakery that produces fresh bread, pastries, and cakes at owned facilities in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel and Amsterdam and delivers them daily nationwide to foodservice, catering, healthcare, wholesale, and retail customers via its own distribution network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Bakery / Artisanal Bread and Pastries

NAICS

Commercial Bakeries (311812), Bakeries and Tortilla Manufacturing (3118)

SIC

Bakery Products (2050)

akta.pro primary industry

Wholesale / Commercial Bakeries (B2B Supply) (THAFAFAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Bread & Rolls Manufacturing (AFAKAAAA), Pastry, Cakes & Tortes Manufacturing (AFAKAAAB), Bakery & Confectionery Wholesale (AFAIABAG)

Keywords

• Artisanal bakery products
• Foodservice bread supply
• Commercial pastries wholesale
• Fresh bakery logistics
• HACCP bakery production

Headquarters

HQ city

Ouderkerk Aan De Amstel

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Bread and Pastry B2B Sales: Direct B2B sales of artisanal bread, pastries, and cakes to foodservice customers including restaurants, catering companies, healthcare facilities, wholesalers, and retailers. Products delivered via own logistics network on recurring basis.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Bakkers Brigade BV produces and supplies daily fresh artisanal bread, pastries, and cakes to foodservice customers (horeca, catering, healthcare, wholesale, and retail) across the Netherlands. Production takes place at the company's own facilities in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel and Amsterdam under HACCP standards, and finished products are delivered via the company's own dense national distribution network with collection hubs throughout the country.

Product overview

Bakkers Brigade operates as a nationwide artisanal bakery group offering fresh bread and pastries through its own production facilities in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel and Amsterdam. The company operates three distinct product lines: its core Bakkers Brigade bread and pastry products (including spelt-based and hand-made ranges), the Almost Ready Frozen frozen specialty line for national distribution, and Taart Brigade as a dedicated cake ordering web shop for B2B customers. Products are delivered via the company's own fine-mesh logistics network throughout the Netherlands to foodservice, catering, hospitality, healthcare, and retail clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Taart Brigade: Cake ordering web shop operated by Bakkers Brigade, focused on B2B customers and individuals ordering cakes.

Products and services

• Bakkers Brigade Bread and Pastries (Brood en Banket) Daily fresh artisanal bread and pastries (brood en banket) including a broad standard assortment, spelt-based products, and an authentic hand-made bread range, supplied to foodservice, catering, healthcare, wholesale, and retail customers across the Netherlands.
• Taart Brigade Cake ordering web shop and delivery service for B2B customers, also handling large quantity cake orders, operated as a sub-brand of Bakkers Brigade within Top Bakkers Groep.
• Almost Ready Frozen Frozen specialty bakery products distributed nationally across the Netherlands, offering ready-to-finish convenience for foodservice customers.

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Top Bakkers GroepcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParent company that coordinates the network of 45 artisan bakeries (Top Bakkers). Bakkers Brigade is the own production facility within this group, producing for customers requiring standardized assortment across multiple locations (e.g., restaurant chains).
• Top Bakkers (Network of 45 Artisan Bakeries)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork of independent artisan bakeries that together with Top Bakkers Groep can serve customers nationally while maintaining local artisan quality and service.
• Taart BrigademinorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCake webshop under Top Bakkers Groep, focused on B2B cake ordering. Also operates as a separate brand for individual consumers.
• Almost Ready FrozenminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrozen specialty products business under Top Bakkers Groep, delivering frozen bakery items nationwide.
• Verspillingsvrije Brood- en BanketclusterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndustry initiative against food waste in bread and pastry sector. Bakkers Brigade participated in knowledge exchange with partners from the entire supply chain on waste reduction strategies including monitoring, improved forecasting, reuse of residual streams, supplier collaboration, and assortment optimization.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Délifrance: French B2B bakery chain (now owned by Aryzta/Groupe Bridor-adjacent ecosystem) serving hotels, restaurants, cafés and retail with viennoiserie, bread and patisserie. Operates a parallel artisan-at-scale model with branded and private-label offerings.
• Vandemoortele: Belgian food group producing bakery products (bread, pastry, pizza) and margarines for B2B foodservice across Europe. Highly comparable Benelux-headquartered B2B bakery manufacturer with foodservice as core channel.
• La Lorraine Bakery Group: Belgian family-owned B2B bakery group supplying artisan and industrial bread, pastry and cake to foodservice, retail and in-store bakeries across Europe. Closest comparable in business model: own production + multi-country B2B foodservice distribution with chain customers.

Broad incumbents

• Aryzta: Swiss-headquartered global bakery solutions group with B2B foodservice, retail and QSR customers. Highly relevant as a larger incumbent player competing for the same multi-site foodservice contracts.
• Grupo Bimbo: World's largest bakery company with broad B2B and B2C footprint. Relevant as a benchmark for industrial-scale bread and pastry production, distribution and brand-building at scale.
• Lantmännen Unibake: Leading European bakery group within Swedish agribusiness Lantmännen, producing fresh and frozen bread and pastry for retail, foodservice and QSR. Comparable as a larger, multi-country B2B bakery incumbent competing for chain tenders.

Regional players

• Harry-Brot: One of Germany's largest industrial bakeries, focused on bread and baked snacks for retail and foodservice. Comparable scale and B2B distribution model, though primarily serving Germany rather than the Netherlands.
• Menken (Hessing): Dutch producer of fresh-cut fruit, sandwiches and convenience foods for foodservice, hospitality and healthcare. Operates a directly comparable Dutch B2B fresh-foods network serving horeca and zorg.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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