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www.tastesofeurope.eu producers CatalogueChina and Japan (april 16-22, 2016) European Union 1 China and Japan | april 16-22, 2016 Dear Participant, Thanks for your participation in the High-Level Mission of Commissioner Phil Hogan and the Tastes of Europe Campaign in China and Japan (April 16-22). In this catalogue you will find the European producers that are members of the Business Delegation (BD) that will accompany the High-Level Mission of Commissioner Phil Hogan to China (April 16- 19); and Japan (April 20-22). This document will provide you with the information of the representatives of each company and/or association, the products they are promoting, the country or countries they will attend and a brief description of each company and association. For further questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us as [email protected] Best regards, The Tastes of Europe organising team 3 China and Japan | april 16-22, 2016 index Belgium, Belgique/België P.6 Bulgaria, България P. 10 Denmark, Danmark P.11 Germany, Deutschland P.12 Greece P.14 EU P.15 Ireland, Éire P.17 Spain, España P.19 France, France P.26 Italy, Italia P.30 Netherlands, Nederland P.41 Poland, Polska P.43 Portugal, Portugal P.47 Finland, Suomi/Finland P.51 Sweden, Sverige P.52 United Kingdom P.54 5 Belgium Producer BAETEN & C° N.V. Name Matthias Baeten Title CEO Product Refined animal fats Website www.baetennv.be Email [email protected] Phone + 32 9 367 79 96 Mob + 32 496 42 03 46 Going To China Baeten & C° established since 1815 is For seven generations we have always strived to a fully independent and self-sufficient deliver high quality products. If necessary we deliver family company. We refine animal to the specifications of the customer by producing fats and oils for human consumption, with specific hardness, consistency, colour and taste mainly beef dripping (beef fat) and characteristics. We carry out a strict selection and lard (pork fat). Baeten & C° strives for checks of our raw materials both in our purchase great flexibility - both towards suppli- policy and in the field itself. ers and customers. This enables us to immediately and adequately answer the customer’s/supplier’s Refined beef dripping & refined lard for human con- questions. sumption are our main products. Our beef dripping has an applications for frying of Our company policy is to develop a close technical the famous Belgium Fries. The Belgian Fries are part and commercial rapport with both of the Belgian culinary and cultural heritage. The suppliers and customers to our longer term mutual lard has the applications for pastry baking, covering advantage. 200 years of expertise combined with meat pâtés, wok recipes, … our ongoing search for new technologies enables us to achieve a very high level of customer satisfaction. We work with 14 employees in our family company. The annual turnover is around EURO 20 million. China and Japan | april 16-22, 2016 Producer Belgian Meat Exports Producer Swaegers &Co Name Thierry Smagghe Name Charlotte Swaegers Title CEO Title Export Manager Product Pork and poultry Product Beef Website www.belgianmeatexports.be Website www.swaegers.be Thierry.Smagghe@ Email Email [email protected] belgianmeatexports.be Phone +32 473 95 07 95 Phone +32 471 044527 Going To China Going To Japan BME, Belgian Meat Exports is the fed- Swaegers & co is one of the leading eration of the high level Belgian Meat slaughterhouses in Belgium regarding Exporters to third countries, BME rep- beef with a € 60 million turnover. We resents more than 60% of the pork are a supplier of good quality Belgian and poultry exports. BME members beef with over 30 years of experience. export to more than 120 countries Our client base consist out of mid- around the world. BME gathers the sized wholesale companies, process- Belgian meat companies that comply to the highest ing companies up to large supermarket chains all standards, as quality and volume are the basics for a over Europe. We have approximately 60 employees. healthy and efficient export. We slaughter and debone quarters that are raised, fed and slaughtered in Belgium, guaranteeing Thierry Smagghe is CEO of BME. transparent and complete traceability. Production [email protected] of quality, product expertise and customer focus are our key values. We became experts by learning from Members of BME are: Noordvlees Van Gool our experience, different family generations and www.van-gool.be Kipco Damaco NV strong client relationships. Owning a slaughter- www.kipcodamaco.com Groep De Brauwer NV house and deboning facilities, we have the capacity www.groepdebrauwer.be Bens NV www.bens.be to produce both standard and tailor made prod- ucts. Our mission is to be a reliable, passionate and knowledgeable supplier who provides a beef quality product all over the world. Currently we are mainly active in European countries. Due to the pig meat crisis, we experience negative side-effects, pushing us to find new markets beyond European borders. 7 Veviba – Verbist – Lanciers; Producer AWE BBG Name Sandrine Guillaume Title Export Responsible Product Meat eviba.be; ardenbeef.com; Website awenet.be; netbbg.com Email [email protected] Phone +32 61 21 76 38 Going To China and Japan The group Veviba is a food compa- AWE is a breeder association from Belgium of more ny with a national and international than 7.000 breeders. presence located in Belgium. It is 3 ultra-modern companies selling meat BBG is the export company of AWE. The speciality produced in accordance with the very of AWE and BBG is the Belgian Blue Breed. best traditions. Tradition guarantees AWE and BBG are producing Belgian Blue frozen the taste and technology guarantees semen for artificial insemination. the freshness. Quality and traceability are the two core values of this leading Belgian company BBG, since march 2003 is the international leader The family has a strong presence in the meat indus- for the sales of Belgian Blue breed frozen semen, try since 1960. embryos and alive animals. Since the beginning, The group Veviba offers retailers an exceptionally BBG is selecting the best bulls from the Belgian Blue wide range of products: from ready-to-cut meats to breed for the crossbreeding market. The aim of this prepare products: rump steaks, kebabs, hamburgers, crossbreeding is to improve the meat profitability of carpaccio, and offals. the progeny. The revenue of 2015 of the group is : 207.000.000 € The revenue of AWE 2015 : 20.000.000€ Number of employees : 520 The revenue of BBG 2015 : 5.250.000€ Number of employees : 250 China and Japan | april 16-22, 2016 Producer BFV Belgian Fruit Valley cvba Name Marc Evrard Title Commercial Director Product Fruits Website www.bfv.be Email [email protected] Phone +32 477 231 746 Going To Japan BFV is the biggest fruit cooperative in Belgium and the biggest supplier of conference pears worldwide. BFV represents 50 % of total fruit production in Belgium (250.000 tons of fruit). Annual turnover is 125 million €. 9 Bulgaria Regional Vine and Wine Chamber Producer “Trakia” Name Plamen Angelov Title Project Manager Product PDO/PGI wines Website www.rlvktrakia.com Email [email protected] Phone +359-886-891919 Going To China and Japan The Regional Vine and Wine Cham- Other than being an eager recipient of the com- ber, “Trakia” is well known to be the bined experience of the project consortium, through leading chamber in the fields of wine the experience gained locally, lessons learned and tourism and wine industry initiatives obstacles overcome, RVWC represents a practical in the country of Bulgaria. Together model to other South-eastern European countries with the Ministry of Agriculture, the that are just now developing these types of initi- Ministry of Finance and various wine atives and will provide case studies of Bulgarian industry related organisations, RVWC Trakia has experience to all partners in the project. developed concepts for 9 Bulgarian Roads of Wine In regards to other EU Initiatives, RVWC Trakia has throughout the territory and has worked toward been awarded approximately 7 million euros for their creation over the last several years. Due to the EU projects aimed at the Promotional of European strong necessity of national/ministerial support and (Bulgarian) Wines to Europe and third countries, i.e. other understood obstacles that have stood in the Italy, Germany, England, Russia, China, Singapore, way of their deployment, RVWC has begun canvass- Thailand and Vietnam. ing EU programmes for the assistance vital for their implementation. China and Japan | april 16-22, 2016 Denmark Producer Danish Crown Producer Arla Foods Name Knud Buhl Name Kasper Thormod Nielsen Director of Global Trade Policy Director of Danish Crown Title Title and Danish Agriculture & Food and Regulatory Affairs Council Product Dairy Product Pork Website www.arla.com Website www.danishcrown.com kasper.thormod.nielsen Email @arlafoods.com [email protected]; Email [email protected] Phone +45 87 33 27 37 Phone +45 22 73 21 68 Going To China Going To China Danish Crown is an international food Arla Foods is a global dairy cooperative company focusing on production and owned by around 13.000 farmers from sales of pork, beef and processed seven EU member states (UK, Germany, meat worldwide. Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Bel- gium, Luxembourg). Danish Crown Pork is Europe’s largest pork company and produces 8.4% of We are among the 10 largest dairies in EU pork. Danish Crown Pork is the world’s largest the world and the largest organic dairy in the world. pork exporter. Our main brands are Castello, Arla and Lurpak. Annual turnover: EUR 8 BN.