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Dutch-MacedonianChamber of Commerce
c/o Netherlands Embassy Aminta III 69-71 1000 Skopje Republic of Macedonia
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NL Chamber was established in January 2012 as official Dutch-Macedonian Chamber of Commerce by 50 Macedonian companies, according to the Macedo nian Law on Chambers of Commerce.
One third of these companies is partly or fully Dutch owned.
Objective of NL Chamber is to promote and support successful business relations between Dutch and Macedonian companies.
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eventsMacedonia pavilion at World of Private Label AmsterdamBack to Business Breakfast on 10 SeptemberThird Dies Natalis at Tikves WineryDAF Roadshow with a new truck for Mega TransBusiness delegation from Hoogeveen visiting MacedoniaGeneral Assembly on 16 July in SkopjenetworkRegular meetings with Customs and Tax Authoritiesmembers150 year old Van Puijenbroek Textiel now RoyalInterWorks on Dutch TVAnthurium and orchid giant opened laboratory in KocaniLaško to join the Heineken familyDutch fiscal law students visit BDO and VPTexDIK Fagus supplying horeca showroom Studio SensesJoint promotion by BiMilk and VitaliaThird exhibition for Tehnokoop at Dutch showroomNew member: Greneth horticulture trade and consultancyFeydom and Bato & Divajn both opened Dutch companyservicePLMA 2016: Macedonia pavilion by NL Chambershort Short News / Calendar of Trade Fairs
Sponsors ofFoundation NL Chamber:
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Macedonia pavilion at World of Private Label AmsterdamMembers Konimex and Vitalia, together with 5 other Macedonian companies participa-ted in the country pavilion at the private label trade fair in Amsterdam.
On 19 and 20 May 2015 the Amsterdam RAI Exhibi-tion Grounds were pounding with private label manufactu-rers and representatives from major retail chains from all over the world. No less than nine Mace donian companies exhi bited at PLMA’s World of Private Label, of which seven at the Mace donia pavilion. Four of these companies had already exhibited at this trade fair in the past, but all indivi-dually.
financed by Netherlands Enterprise Agency
NL Chamber had been knocking on many doors to get support for such a pavilion, convinced of the enormous value of this fair. In February the Nether-lands Enterprise Agency (RvO) announced to be willing to fi-nance the pavilion after which the Netherlands Embassy took over the co-ordination with Dutch contractor NEC. “The Embassy put a tremendous effort into this project, resul-ting into an excellent participa-tion of NL Chamber members Konimex and Vitalia and five
other Macedonian exhibitors,” said NL Chamber’s Executive Director Bob Smit.
no-nonsense
All Macedonian exhibitors were satisfied with the number of visitors at their stands and very impressed by the value of all these potential custom-ers. “The exhibition is a highly concentrated, purely business-to-business no-nonsense mar-ketplace for the global retail scene in just two very inten-sive days. The organizer, the Amsterdam-based Interna-tional Council of the US Private Label Manufacturers Associa-
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Vitalia’s managing director Iskra Vetadzokoska Mucunska introducing thelatest product developments to Ambassador Igor Popov.
CEO Viktor Kolovski of Konimex presenting their wide range of organic teas, vinegars, herbal drops and spices to a potential customer.
tion (PLMA), retains very strict entrance policies to ensure the highest quality,” explains Smit.
returning in 2016
Excited about the results, all exhibitors confirmed their am-bitions to exhibit again at next year’s PLMA to Igor Popov, Ambassador of Macedonia to the Netherlands. The ambas-sador, accompanied by Eco-nomic Promotor Vedat Rushid, took several hours to get acquain ted with each of them and expressed his gratitude to Mrs Brigitta Groenland, pro-ject officer at RvO and to the Netherlands Embassy and NL Chamber for making this par-ticipation possible.Meanwhile, NL Chamber al-ready started preparations for another Macedonia pavilion, aiming to have the best Mace-donian manufacturers joining forces at an excellent pavilion at next PLMA, taking place on 24-25 May 2016. See the arti-cle on PLMA 2016 here.
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Back to Business Breakfast on 10 SeptemberThe new Dutch ambassador and NL Chamber sponsor Boekestijn will join the table at this year’s Dutch breakfast.
The concept of closing the summer holiday season with a “Back to Business” breakfast table, filled with typical Dutch products was highly apprecia-ted last year, which is the rea-son to repeat this event on 10 September 2015.
Ambassador Plomp
Arriving mid August, the new ambassador of the Nether-lands to Macedonia, Mr Wouter Plomp, will use the opportu-
nity to join the table and get to know the members of NL Chamber.
sponsor Boekestijn
The owner and director of NL Chamber sponsor Boekestijn Transport Services, Mr Arno Boekestijn, has also announced his presence. Boekestijn Transport Services is the only Dutch transport company with regular transports to and from Macedonia.
hosted by Bato & Divajn
Like last year the breakfast will be hosted again by prin-ting house Bato & Divajn on the green slopes behind their premises near Dracevo, Skopje. In a pleasant atmos-phere we catch up after a long summer and mee t new people, while enjo ying choco-late springles, peanut butter, cheese and various other typi-cal Dutch breakfast delicacies.
Boekestijn Transport Services was established in 1994 in Mill near Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Since 2000 Boekestijn operates a subsidiary in Poland.Boekestijn became active in Mace donia with local partner Mega Trans from Gostivar after the takeover of R&W Fashion Transport in 2007.
The total fleet consists of 202 trucks. The Macedonian partner is Mega Trans from Gostivar with 10 trucks.
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Eerste Industrieweg 28 PO Box 75 5450 AB Mill The Netherlands
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Arno Boekestijn, owner/director Boekestijn Transport Service
Ambassador Wouter Plomp
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Third Dies Natalis at Tikves WineryTraditionally the year started with the annual birthday celebration of NL Chamber, this time in Kavadarci at the fine restaurant in the cellars of Tikves Winery.
Three years had past since the establishment of the Dutch-Macedonian Chamber of Commerce, NL Chamber on Wednesday 18 January 2012 at the headquarters of Pivara Skopje.Meanwhile, it has become a tradition to honour this date with an intimate celebration, hosted by one of our members.
Dies Natalis
In the Dutch academic world Dies Natalis - Latin for birthday - is a common expression for the anniversary of universities and other organizations, so that is why also NL Chamber honours its Dies Natalis.Our host for this year’s celebration was Tikves Winery in Kavadarci, the oldest and lar-gest wine producer of Macedo-nia.
extraordinary dinner
CEO Igor Ilievski and ex-port manager Katerina Kos-
tovska welcomed some thirty NL Chamber members for a tour through the winery, after which the group sat down at the cosy cellar-restaurant for an extraordinary dinner ac-companied by a selection of Tikves wines.
Chargé d’Affaires a.i.
Guest of honour was Mr Joop Scheffers, who just arrived in Macedonia the week before. Following the early farewell of Ambassador Marriët Schuur-man who got appointed as Special Envoj at NATO in Brus-sels per October last year, Mr Scheffers was appointed as Chargé d’Affaires a.i. to Mace-
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donia untill summer 2015.
keeping track of national holidays and trade fairs
NL Chamber’s Executive Direc-tor Bob Smit presented the table-calendar 2015, allo-wing both Dutch and Macedo-nian business partners to keep track of eachothers national holidays as well as the major trade fairs.
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DAF Roadshow with a new truck for Mega TransNL Chamber member D-M Trans hosted a roadshow with Dutch truck manufacturer DAF Trucks, celebrating also the hand over of a new truck to member Mega Trans.
Thursday 23 April the Mace-donian road transport sector gathered in Ilinden to admire five of the latest models of Dutch truck manufacturer DAF Trucks NV from Eindhoven. The roadshow took place at the premises of D-M Trans, dealer and service station for DAF in Macedonia. Director Dragan Drago manov welcomed Dutch ambassador Joop Scheffers who officially handed over the keys of the Boekestijn- branded DAF XF440 to Ramazan Ibishi of Mega Trans from Gosti-var, local partner of Dutch
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youtube.com/../daftrucksnv Ramazan Ibishi of Mega Trans receives the keys of the brand-new DAF XF440 from Ambassador Joop Scheffers.
Boekestijn Transport Services. Area manager sales operations Twan Verhoeven presented the technological, economical and environmental advantages of the new EURO6 line of trucks.
Twan Verhoeven of DAF shows the novelties of the XF510 to Ambassador Joop Scheffers.
pictures and videos:
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nl.mk/DAF-XFnl.mk/DAF-03
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Member Natuurgevelsteen again brought a business delegation to Macedonia, this time a group of experienced entrepreneurs.
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The team behind the Dutch im-porter of Macedonian natural stone Natuurgevelsteen again brought a group of business people to Macedonia, this time experienced entrepreneurs from the region of Hooge veen.
Ambassador for breakfast
After a long day of visits to stone processors and quar-ries, travel ling from Dojran via Rado vish to Kriva Palanka, the delegation arrived in Skopje. On Saturday morning the group met for breakfast with Ambassador Joop Scheffers and NL Chamber director Bob Smit who introduced them to the current affairs in the Mace-donian economy.
Good match
At the lastest Dies Natalis cele bration of NL Chamber at Tikves Winery, Jan Zwiers of Natuurgevelsteen was intro-duced to printing house Bato & Divajn. Now, part of the dele gation met with Zoran Rosomanov, owner of Bato & Divajn. “They expressed so many common interests, that a return visit was very obvious!” Smit describes the pleasant atmosphere. “A few days later
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Rosomanov adjus ted his tra vel plans to meet the Dutch again and visit their printing house.”
Slaughterhouse
While visiting the Velmej quar-ry on Sunday, NL Chamber ar-ranged a slaughterhouse visit for two other delegation mem-bers for Monday. Prior to the last dinner with wine tasting, Thijs Zomer introduced a mi-crofinance fund: see blue box.
Ambassador Joop Scheffers introducing the delegation to Macedonia.
Microdonia BV
The ambitions of the driving forces behind Natuurgevelsteen, Thijs Zomer and Jan Zwiers are very clear: creating employment and prosperity in Macedonia, by supporting their suppliers with export and building up healthy, sustainable businesses.Reason for organizing a business mission to Macedonia, was to broaden the focus with a small investment fund for microfinan-cing of projects in Macedonia.Meanwhile, all 20 bonds have been sold and the microfinance fund Microdonia BV will soon be established!
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NL Chamber is participating in regular meetings of the Customs and Tax Authorities with the business community.
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Regular meetings with Customs and Tax Authorities
Last automn NL Chamber joined the so-called Advisory Body of the Customs Admini-stration, that meets once eve-ry three months. Objective is to discuss concrete issues and suggestions from the business community. The Advisory Body was established in accordance with the International Conven-tion on the Simplification and Harmonization of the Customs Procedures of the World Cus-toms Organization. Amongst the other participants are the three Macedonian chambers of commerce, AmCham, the Tex-tile Trade Association and the transport and logistics associa-tion.In a meeting with the then Min-ister of Finance Zoran Stavres-ki in December AmCham and NL Chamber proposed to ex-
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The fourth General Assembly of NL Chamber will take place on 16 July at the Nether-lands Embassy in Skopje.
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General Assembly on 16 July in Skopje
Whereas plans for an earlier moment for the General As-sembly by the end of Febru-ary got cancelled, the annual gathe ring where members de-cide about performance and plans of NL Chamber will now take place on 16 July 2015 from 15h30.
The invitation with the agen-da has already been sent to all members by email. Loca-tion for the General Assembly is the conference room on the third floor of the Netherlands Embassy, Aminta III 69-71 in Skopje.
tend the example of the Cus-toms to the Tax Authorities. In April this year NL Chamber was invited to join this consul-tative group of which the first meeting took place on 30 June at the Tax Authority headquar-ters in Skopje.See also the publication on the Customs’ website.
NL Chamber and Embassy visit municipalities
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Meeting the Mayor of Jegunovce
Companies may benefit from a visit of the Netherlands Embassy and NL Chamber to the Mayor of their municipality.
Recently Deputy Head of Mis-sion Peter Verheyen met with Mayor Toni Koceski of Jegu-novce for European Plants.
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Sponsors of NL Chamber
www.boekestijntransport.com
www.pivaraskopje.com.mk
www.nlembassy.org.mk
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During the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Van Puijen broek Textiel in Goirle, the King’s Commissioner of Noord Brabant, Mr Wim van de Donk on behalf of King Willem Alexander handed over the designation “Royal” to Mrs Anna van Puijenbroek.The company is producer of workwear and protective wear under the brands HaVeP and Bucofa.Van Puijen broek has been producing in Macedonia since 1968 and opened its own pro-duction facility in Ilinden, near Skopje in October 2013 under the name VPTex Macedonia.The new flag with a crown in the logo now also flutters in Ilinden.
King Willem Alexander awarded the designation “Royal” to Van Puijenbroek Textiel from Goirle. Royal Van Puijenbroek Textiel celebrated 150 years of existence in June.
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From 16-20 March IT system integration specialist Inter-Works participated in CeBIT. This participation was suppor-ted by CBI, part of the Neth-erlands Enterprise Agency, which also arranged for a TV
Supported by Dutch CBI, InterWorks exhibited at ICT trade fair CeBIT in Hannover and got interviewed for Business Channel, a programme broadcasted on RTL7.
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InterWorks on Dutch TV
InterWorks DOOEL
Karpos b.b. (dir. Granit) 7000 Bitola Republic of Macedonia
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crew. General manager Alek-sandar Pop Ristov introduced InterWorks to Business Chan-nel as a promising nearshoring IT developing house. The pro-gramme was broadcasted on 22 March on RTL7, while Ce-BIT was still going on. Watch the video with Pop Ristov on:
vimeo.com/122731380
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It was a very warm and sunny day, that Wednesday 6 May when Anthura celebrated the official opening of its plant tis-sue laboratory, Anthura MK in Kocani. The new player on the local labour market already got to 140 employees who gathe-red with the Dutch owners, their families and relations for the Grand Opening.
Dutch Anthura opened an in-vitro laboratory for breeding and propagating anthurium and phalaenopsis in Kocani.
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Anthurium and orchid giant opened laboratory in Kocani
Netherlands is with 12 ha. 10 times as big as the laboratory in Kocani. Anthura was esta-blished in 1972 as a company for Anthurium breed ing by Nic van der Knaap. Now, Anthura is a global leader in breeding and propagation of Anthurium and Phalaenopsis, both for pot plants as for cut flowers. An-thura production facilities are located in China, Germany, the Netherlands and Macedonia.
Watch Anthura on: youtube
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Part of Anthura’s 12 ha. ultra-modern greenhouse in Bleiswijk, Netherlands.
The facility measures 1.2 ha. with laboratories under strictly controlled climate conditions for the propagation of phalae-nopsis cutlings - an orchid genus. The main greenhouse complex of Anthura in the
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On 13 April Heineken an-nounced that it had signed a binding agreement with con-sortium of shareholders to acquire 51% of the shares of Pivovarna Laško from Slove-nia. Upon approval accord-ing to the competition regula-tions, Heineken will offer for the entire takeover. Pivovarna
Dutch beer brewer Heineken agreed to acquire 51% of Slovenian Pivovarna Laško. Upon approval by the authorities, Heineken is obliged to extend a takeover offer for all shares.
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Laško to join the Heineken family
Laško, originating from 1825, operates two breweries: Laško Brewery in the village of Laško and Union Brewery in Ljublja-na. Both brands have a strong domestic position and Laško is sold in Macedonia as well.
Press Release:theheinekencompany.com
Heineken participation Macedonia:pivaraskopje.com.mk
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Since the direct flights between Eindhoven and Skopje, Dutch students regularly choose Macedonia for a study trip, as did a group of fiscal law students from Tilburg.
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Dutch fiscal law students visit BDO and VPTex
Early April no less than 27 stu-dents of fiscal law from Tilburg University visited Skopje and Thessaloniki for a study trip. Dragan Dimitrov, director of BDO Macedonia organized a meeting at the Tax Authority and also hosted a presenta-tion by Macedonian Tax Guide author Dushan Dimitrov at BDO’s premises. Additionally, the group visi ted workwear factory of VPTex in Ilinden.
Dutch horeca wholesaler Hanos and their partners launched a new concept of horeca showrooms Studio Senses. DIK Fagus is main supplier of the chairs.
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DIK Fagus supplying horeca showroom Studio Senses
Last autumn chair factory DIK Fagus from Pehcevo was pre-sent at the opening celebration of the first horeca showroom Studio Senses. The concept is an initiative of Dutch horeca wholesaler Hanos and DIK Fa-gus is the supplier for uphol-stered wooden chairs.
Impression of a Studio Senses show-room; DIK Fagus chairs in the back.
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In 2014 health food producer Vitalia introduced take away meals of oat and muesli to which water, milk or yoghurt should be added. Recently Vita lia and Macedonia’s largest dairy products manufacturer BiMilk found eachother in a joint promotional action. Vita-lia’s take away meal with Bi-Milk’s half a liter package long-life milk retails at 0.96 EUR.
Two NL Chamber members recognize the added value of joining forces and conquer the domestic market with a “Combo Promotion”.
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Joint promotion by BiMilk and Vitalia
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Furniture showroom centre De Woonindustrie prepares for its September exhibition.
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Third exhibition for Tehnokoop at Dutch showroom
Upon acknowledgement in Kocani, Dutch Greneth immediately joined NL Chamber.
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New member: Greneth horticulture trade and consultancy
GreNeth EOOD, a Dutch com-pany in Bulgaria joined NL Chamber in April. GreNeth serves clients in Greece, Bul-garia, Turkey and Macedonia with greenhouse projects, hor-ticultural equipment and sup-
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On 14 September, the first day of the autumn trade fair at fur-niture showroom centre De Woonindustrie in Nieuwe gein, Tehnokoop will present its la-test collection at showroom 2B068b under the brand TK-meubels. Next to sales of sofas, Tehnokoop will also focus on offering custom-made design and production of kitchens.
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nl.mk/TK-meubels
plies, as well as cultivation consultancy. GreNeth repre-sents various Dutch suppliers, like Priva, Berg Hortimotive and Steenks Service. Owner Jaap-Jan Vermeulen is fluent in Greek and Macedonian!
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PLMA 2016: Macedonia pavilion by NL Chamber
All nine Macedonian exhibitors at this year’s edition of PLMA’s World of Private Label exhibi-tion in Amsterdam were unani-mous in there judgement: next year again!
country pavilion
Unlike this year, the Dutch gov-ernment will not subsidize the Macedonian participation, but that does not keep companiers from applying. As soon as ap-
Download the brochure on Macedonian participation at PLMA at: nl.mk/PLMA-brochure
plication is opened, NL Cham-ber will book the space for the pavilion. In a later stage NL Chamber will co-ordinate design and construction of the pavilion, as well as logis-tics and other organizational details. Also the Netherlands Embassy has offered again to support in the organization of a successful exhibition.
www.plmainternational.com
Two NL Chamber members, 100% Macedonian companies, both recently opened a com-pany in the Netherlands!
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Feydom and Bato & Divajn both opened Dutch company
Furniture designer Feydom was the first fully Macedo-nian member of NL Chamber to regis ter a company in the Nether lands in December last year. Since the city of Utrecht was the most appealing to the taste of Feydom, NL Chamber found a seat there and esta-blished contacts with provincial invest ment support organi-zation Invest Utrecht.
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Fern BV in Utrecht is the result of the ambitions of Zoran and Filimena Radonjanin to esta-blish a Feydom Euro pean Re-tail Network for the co-ordi-
nation of EU-wide promotion, logistics and sales.
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Zoran Rosomanov also regards the Netherlands as a good foothold within the EU: “For a company focussed on export to the EU it is a logical step to organize direct pre sence on
These companies confirmed to exhibit at PLMA 2016:
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the Dutch market”.Rosomanov is founder and owner of Divajn and Bato & Divajn and was triggered by the visit of the delegation of Natuur gevelsteen (See the ar-ticle on page 6). The Dutch sis-ter company, Bato & Divajn BV in Hoogeveen, was established just a few weeks ago.
Zoran Rosomanov of Bato & Divajn with Thijs Zomer of Natuurgevelsteen
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Growing outletsBatavia Stad Fashion Outlet near Lelystad announced ex-tension with 45 new shops and more space for existing ten-ants to a total of 31,000 sqm shop surface per end of 2016. Reason is a 12% turnover growth that tenants report. Total number of visitors is 2.3 million per year.
Rosada Fashion Outlet in Roosendaal has reached 1 mil-lion visitors and grew to 100 shops. Designer Outlet Roer-mond is champion with 5 mil-lion visitors per year and plan-ning 50,000 sqm in 2017. The rent in these centres is not based on floor surface, but de-pends on the realized turnover.
Toilets & moreStarted in 2011 to make clean restrooms at busy places feasi-ble, now Dutch 2theloo opera-tes 180 rest rooms in 14 coun-tries at gas stations, shopping malls and public transport sta-tions, but also banks. Watch the promo video:
youtu.be/C9AaAD981kI
Google data centre in EemshavenOn 50 ha. of land at the coast in the far northeast of the Netherlands Google is building a 600 mln EUR data centre, to be fully operational in 2017. At the nearby internet exchange hub, 11 out of 15 cables for transatlantic data traffic be-tween the US and Europe come ashore. Ener gy provider Eneco has sold the entire 62 MW capa city of a 19-turbine wind farm under construction to Google.
Apple watchband made in NLA group of 40 employees was secretly working on a project, without knowing the client.When the project moved into
mass production it was all over the news: the tannery of Ecco Leather in Dongen near Til-burg was producing Dutch cow leather watchbands for the Ap-ple Watch!
PhonebloksGoogle’s Project Ara (above) would bring a mo dular phone to the market in 2015. In 2013 student Dave Hakkens at the Design Academy Eindhoven developed Phonebloks (below)See:youtu.be/oDAw7vW7H0c
Google datacentre under construction in Eemshaven
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Selection of trade fairs in the Netherlands.NB: All blue text is clickable!
The Netherlands
Major trade fairs take place at:
Jaarbeurs, Utrecht99,000 sqm, 13 hallswww.jaarbeurs.nlRAI, Amsterdam87,000 sqm, 11 hallswww.rai.nlAhoy, Rotterdam30,000 sqm, 6 hallswww.ahoy.nl
Regional locations for trade fairs:
Brabanthallen, ‘s-Hertogenb.29,500 sqm, 6 hallsIJsselhallen, Zwolle17,000 sqm, 4 hallsMECC, Maastricht29,500 sqm, 4 halls
Most fairs in the Netherlands have entrance fees and offer discounts for early registration online.
Please do not hesitate to contact NL Chamber when you plan to visit a fair in the Nether lands.
The Netherlands
12-13.07.2015 Modefabriek, RAI - Amsterdam sales exhibition of the major fashion brands10.09.2015 Relatie Z, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht 80 exhibitors; relational gifts and christmas packages29.09.2015- Elektrotechniek, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht02.10.2015 250 exhibitors in electrical engineering29.09.2015- VT Wonen & Design Beurs, RAI - Amsterdam04.10.2015 250 exhibitors; consumer fair home interior & design30.09.2015- Pumps & Valves, Ahoy - Rotterdam01.10.2015 pumping equipment and industrial components06-08.10.2015 Energie, Brabanthallen - ‘s-Hertogenbosch 200 exhibitors; energy saving, sustainable energy13-14.10.2015 Offshore Energy Exhibition, RAI - Amsterdam 650 exhibitors; offshore industry suppliers/contractors03-06.11.2015 Aquatech, RAI - Amsterdam 680 exhibitors; process/drinking/wastewater solutions03-06.11.2015 Europort, Ahoy - Rotterdam 1,100 exhibitors, 40 countries; maritime technology10-13.11.2015 Logistica, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht 250 exhibitors in logistics and material handling23-24.11.2015 World Bulk Wine Exhibition, RAI - Amsterdam 220 wineries from 19 countries11-14.01.2016 Horecava and Wine Professional, RAI - Amsterdam 400 food service exhibitors; 100 wine exhibitors11-14.01.2016 Ethnic Foods Europe, RAI - Amsterdam12-17.01.2016 Dutch Tourism Expo, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht 850 exhibitors; first day for professional visitors only13-15.01.2016 Vakbeurs Facilitair, Brabanthallen - ‘s- Hertogenbosch 400 exhibitors; products/services facility management i.e. maintenance, cleaning, catering, ict, reception etc.20-21.01.2016 BioBeurs, IJsselhallen - Zwolle 350 exhibitors in the sustainable organic food chain24-25.01.2016 Modefabriek, RAI - Amsterdam sales exhibition of the major fashion brands27-29.01.2016 Gevel and Material Xperience, Ahoy - Rotterdam products and technology for facade construction materials expo for architects, creative professionals09-12.02.2016 Integrated Systems Europe, RAI - Amsterdam integrated electronic systems: audio, video, lighting15-18.03.2016 ESEF, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht engineering and subcontracting 12-14.04.2016 Empack and Label&Print Jaarbeurs - Utrecht packaging materials, machines, coding, labelling etc.24-25.05.2016 World Private Label / PLMA, RAI - Amsterdam european private label producers in food and non-food 3,800 exhibitors, 68 countries, 42 regional pavilions brochure MK pavilion, see: nl.mk/PLMA-brochure14-16.06.2016 GreenTech, RAI - Amsterdam 300 exhibitors in horticulture and floriculture industry23-24.11.2016 Packaging Innovations, Taets Park - Amsterdam high-level event for brand managers, marketeers and packaging specialists
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