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Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

Creating new business opportunities for our extruded products in various food markets, primarily focussed on extruded (protein) snacks, (protein) crispies and cereals. Please also contact me for our other products like snack coatings, TVP's, etc.Providing co-manaufacturing services for the food ingredients market, the functional food market as well as the health and sports nutrition markets. Looking for long term cooperation’s.Driessen Food Extrusion is part of the Driessen Group of companies. At Driessen United Blenders we make solutions and disperses every kind of dry and liquid raw material for the food industry. We blend powders with powders, liquids with liquids and liquids with powders (and vice versa). Thanks to our extensive knowledge and experience in blending, making solutions and dispersing, we know how to deal with complex product characteristics such as delicate, sticky, pasty, unstable and segregation-sensitive raw materials. To achieve the best results, we select the best technologies from our own range of blenders.

Leerdam, The Netherlands

Within my responsibility I have to create new business and extend business with existing accounts in Europe, UK and the USA. Hearthside Europe is a designer and producer of food bars and we focus on the bar segments weight control, sports, indulgence and functional foods.We are the biggest producer of specialty bars in Europe. We produce solely customer specific products for private label as well as for branded products, but we do not have an own brand. For us, every customer and every product is unique.With a highly flexible production facility, producing over 800 different (custom) recipes starting from batch sizes of 30.000 bars. With our specialized equipment we produce bars with many different product characteristics; Nice and soft nougat type bars, super crunchy, multi-layer, with caramel layer and sprinkled nuts, uncoated or with Belgian chocolate, you name it and we will make it. (www.hearthsidefoods.nl)

Leerdam, The Netherlands

Outsourcing (different factories EU, UK & USA)

Leerdam, The Netherlands

Leerdam, The Netherlands

Outsourcing (different factories in the EU, UK & USA)

Eindhoven Area, The Netherlands

Lead multi disciplinary projects (NPD & Value Engineering) in the snack category. In 4 different factories;-Maastricht (the Netherlands)-Tilburg (the Netherlands)-Helmond (the Netherlands)-Mol (Belgium)At co-packersRetail and out of home market in Europe.For brands like Mora, Ad van Geloven, Bourgondier, Welten snacks, Van Lieshout Snacks, Hebro and Private Label.

Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Lead European multi disciplinary projects (NPD & Value Engineering).In various categories; -Ketchup, Sauces, Condiments (Heinz foodservice & retail, Wijko)-Soups & meals (Honig Professional for foodservice)-Soups, Meals, Mealkits, Sauces and Bakery (Honig retail)In Heinz factories-Elst (the Netherlands)-Telford (UK) -Worchester (UK)-Turnhout (Belgium)-Alfaro (Spain)At European co-packers

Den Bosch, The Netherlands

Roermond, The Netherlands

Den Bosch, The Netherlands

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Australia, New-Zealand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia and Myanmar

Bachelor Of Science, Food Technology, Product Development

Meat Technology, Certificate

Quality, Food Technology