AVEBE
| Avebe
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| legal form | Coöperatie met uitgesloten aansprakelijkheid (UA) |
| Seat |
 Netherlands , Veendam
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| management | Bert Jansen |
| Number of employees | 1,314 (2014/15) |
| sales | 560 million euros (2014/15) |
| Branch | Food industry, animal feed |
| Website | www.avebe.com |
Avebe is a Dutch group based in Veendam , whose main business area is the production of starch and starch refined products from potatoes . The group has branches in Europe. These include production sites in the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden.
Avebe employs around 1400 people, around 200 of them in Germany.
history
The company was founded in 1919 as a sales office for the products of Dutch starch factories. Avebe is an abbreviation of Aardappelmeel Verkoop Bureau ("office for potato starch sales "). With the acquisition of the DWM plant in Veendam and further investments in “Ter Apelkanaal”, activities in the 1960s were expanded to include the production and processing of potato starch . In the 1970s, more of the Dutch starch factories were incorporated into the company until the last starch producer in the Netherlands, Royal Scholten Honey , was taken over in 1978 .
Avebe became more and more an international group. Today Avebe has locations in 20 countries. These include factories in Vlagtwedde (Ter Apelkanaal) , Foxhol and Aa en Hunze (Gasselternijveen) in the Netherlands , Lüchow and Karstädt (Prignitz) / Dallmin in Germany and Malmö in Sweden .
Products
The Avebe Group's products include native and processed potato starches for the food industry , for textile, paper and adhesive production, for the building materials industry, and as a base and additive for animal feed. In addition, products made from potato fiber and potato protein are primarily used as animal feed.
criticism
Avebe is testing genetically modified potato varieties in various countries and is sometimes criticized publicly for this. For example, anti-genetic engineering demonstrations took place in Germany and the Netherlands and individual test fields were destroyed. In the mid-1990s, Avebe decided to consistently only use classic, traditional refinement methods - since then, genetic modification has no longer been used.
swell
- D. Strijker, Globalization of a potato starch co-operative: the case of AVEBE (PDF; 5.9 MB). In: PH Pellenbarg and E. Wever (eds)., International business geography. Routledge, London and New York, 2008, p. 169-185.
- Dorien Knaap, "Voor geld is altijd wel een plaats te vinden" : de firma WA Scholten (1841–1892), de eerste Nederlandse industriële multinational, Uitgeverij Van Gorcum, 2004, ISBN 90-232-4053-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b ANNUAL REPORT 2014/2015
- ↑ Avebe 2014-2015: hoger resultaat bij lagere omzet , November 19, 2015
- ↑ About Us