The Group
"Our relationship with Vitaal Europe has enabled us to penetrate the UK market by utilising their extensive customer base and excellent logistical services.
Through them we are able to get our products delivered fresh, every day, to any destination in the UK. They have a widespread customer base and a team keen on promoting our products.
For us, Vitaal are a perfect working solution for getting our products onto the international market."
Miranda, Henk & Daniëlle Overkleeft
Biostar
Vitaal Europe
“Vitaal” was originally established as the ‘Dutch’ arm of Nationwide Produce Plc. Since its inception the division has now grown to include an exotics team based in Evesham and a fruit department based in Spalding; it encompasses imports of fruit and produce of many types and varieties from worldwide sources.
The Dutch side of the business is now known as “Vitaal Europe”. Vitaal Europe has offices in De Lier near Rotterdam and Emmen in the north of the Netherlands. The De Lier office is situated in the Westland region, the heart of glasshouse salad production in the Netherlands. Here, in addition to our sales office, we have ware-housing, cold storage and pack house facilities that are fully BRC certified and SKAL (organic) certified. Our team specialise in the sales and procurement of all Dutch grown salad products and in the off-season works in conjunction with our Spanish office to offer year round supply. All our staff in the Netherlands and Spain are multi-lingual.
As well as providing produce in standard packaging, we are able to offer a ‘bespoke’ packing and labelling service to the customers’ specification.
The Emmen office is situated in the North East of the Netherlands in the Drenthe region. Here our team specialise in the sales and procurement of open field products. Whilst the UK is an important market for them, the majority of sales are made into mainland and Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. The office is situated very close to the German border and we have here some of the largest Cauliflower and Iceberg producers in Europe. These products, together with onions, cabbage, chinese leaves, broccoli and carrots form the basis of the business.
Thus the two Dutch offices complement each other perfectly.