Amersfoort, The Netherlands, 2/9/2024
This summer, Rival Foods proudly celebrated its 5th anniversary. A great moment to reflect and look forward. The company looks back on a very successful year. Rival Foods established a new production location that was operational in less than 4 months, successfully launched products in the Netherlands and Germany and invested in the growth of the team. The company is now all set for commercial-scale production.
From start-up to scale-up
Co-founder Birgit Dekkers: “Rival Foods has developed from a start-up to a fully-fledged scale-up with a strong steadily growing turnover. A new phase also brings new opportunities and challenges. Not only in tapping into new markets, expanding our range and customer base, but we also faced the question of how we want to further develop and manage our growing company, and which roles, tasks, and competencies are required for this.
This led to co-founder Ernst Breel announcing that he would make way for new talent after five wonderful and intensive years. His talents lie in innovation, invention and the development of new technology-market combinations. Ernst has made an incredibly large and valuable contribution to where Rival Foods stands today.
We are grateful that Ernst remains available from the sidelines for expert advice, but first, we want to grant him his well-deserved rest before he starts looking for his next step.”
Succession and expansion of the management team
A large part of Ernst’s responsibilities are taken over by Bart de Bont (Operations manager) and Jort Zwiers (Team lead Engineering team). Both are highly skilled and well adapted at working at Rival Foods, which ensures a solid succession. From September, Allison Woolcott will strengthen the management team in the new position of Head of Finance.
Birgit: “I am enthusiastic about Allison’s arrival. Together with Willem Spigt, our Commercial Director, we are ready as a management team for the future!”
