Fruitbedrijf

What Fruitbedrijf does

Fruitbedrijf is a Netherlands-based fruit company operating from Heide under the web domain fruitbedrijfvolen.nl, indicating the brand identity "Volen." The company employs 29 people, placing it in the small-to-medium enterprise category for the Dutch agricultural sector. The name "Fruitbedrijf" translates directly to "Fruit Company," and combined with the Limburg-region location — one of the Netherlands' principal fruit-growing areas — the firm is most plausibly engaged in fruit cultivation, harvesting, packing, and/or wholesale distribution of fresh produce such as apples, pears, berries, or stone fruit. No information is available regarding specific crop mix, acreage, growing methods (conventional versus organic), packing capacity, or downstream customer channels.

The firm's business model cannot be characterized with precision from the available data. The corporate webpage rendered only a loading/verification placeholder, and the aggregated data record contains no product catalog, no pricing model, no customer logos, no certifications (e.g., GlobalG.A.P., organic), no management team disclosures, and no financial information. As such, the revenue model — whether direct-to-retail, wholesale to packer-marketers, farm-gate sales, or a mix — is unverifiable from the input. There are also no indications of brand-building investment, distribution partnerships, or vertical integration into processing.

Operationally, the company should be viewed through the lens of a small Dutch fruit producer/grower: capex-intensive in orchard establishment, seasonal labor reliance, and exposed to commodity pricing for fresh fruit. The absence of disclosed technology, data assets, AI applications, or proprietary agronomic IP suggests a conventional farming operation rather than an agritech or vertically integrated produce business.

Name

Fruitbedrijf

Website

https://fruitbedrijfvolen.nl

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Fruitbedrijf (operating under the Volen brand via fruitbedrijfvolen.nl) is a 29-employee fruit company based in Heide, Netherlands, most likely engaged in fruit cultivation and wholesale distribution within the Dutch Limburg growing region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fresh Fruit Production

NAICS

Fruit and Tree Nut Farming (1113)

SIC

Agricultural Production-Crops (100)

akta.pro primary industry

Fresh-Cut & Value-Added Produce (Washed, Peeled, Sliced, Packaged) (AFAKAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Fresh Fruit Wholesale (AFAIACAA)

Keywords

• Fresh fruit production
• Fruit wholesale distribution
• Dutch fruit growing
• Agricultural fruit products
• Fruit farm operations

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations

Core offering

Fruitbedrijf (Dutch for "fruit company") is a 29-employee Netherlands-based business operating from Heide. The actual website content was unavailable (loading/verification page only), so the specific core offering cannot be directly evidenced; based on the company name and Dutch locale, the business is inferred to produce and/or trade fruit.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• FruitMasters (Koninklijke Fruitmasters): Dutch fruit cooperative specializing in top-fruit (apples, pears) and soft fruit, supplying retailers across Europe. Closely comparable as a Netherlands-based fruit supplier targeting the same retail customers.
• The Greenery: Dutch fresh-produce cooperative supplying fruit and vegetables to European retailers. Directly comparable as a Netherlands-based fruit operator serving similar B2B retail channels, though materially larger in scale.
• Special Fruit: Belgian specialist importer and distributor of berries, exotics, and other soft fruit. Comparable as a Benelux-based fresh-fruit supplier focused on similar product types and European retail customers.
• Nature's Pride: Dutch importer, ripener, and packer of fresh fruit (exotics, berries, top fruit) serving European retailers. Comparable in geography, product category, and B2B go-to-market, though larger and broader in assortment.
• Cool Fresh International: Dutch importer and distributor of fresh fruit and vegetables for European retail. Comparable as a Netherlands-based fruit operator serving the same supermarket and foodservice customers.

Broad incumbents

• Greenyard: Belgian-headquartered global market leader in fresh, frozen, and prepared fruit and vegetables. Comparable as a European fresh-produce supplier operating in overlapping product categories and customer channels.
• Bakker Barendrecht: Dutch fresh fruit and vegetable supplier (part of Greenyard) serving Albert Heijn and other retailers. Comparable in product, geography, and B2B retail channel, though embedded within a much larger group.
• Total Produce (now Dole plc): Irish-headquartered global fresh-produce group (merged with Dole). Comparable as a major European fruit producer-distributor operating in the same categories and channels, but at substantially greater scale.
• Driscoll's: Global market leader in berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries). Comparable only as a relevant category incumbent in one of the fruit sub-categories Dutch fresh-produce companies like Fruitbedrijf may operate in.

Regional players

• Nedato: Dutch cooperative specializing in tomatoes. Comparable only loosely as a Netherlands-based fresh-produce cooperative; primary overlap is go-to-market model and grower-cooperative structure rather than fruit category.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks3 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fruitbedrijf

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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