Koppert Cress is always on the lookout for natural, innovative ingredients which chefs can use to intensify the flavour, aroma, or presentation of their dishes; products that meet the increasingly stringent requirements of restaurants worldwide. Cresses are freshly-sprouted seedlings from 100% natural aromatic plants. They offer a freshness and intensity of taste and aroma that is only found in young seedlings.
Success
The success of Koppert Cress is entirely dependent on its recognition and acceptance by the professional user. Flavour is the top priority in this regard, but there's more to it than just taste. Rob Baan realized at an early stage that healthy eating will play an increasingly important role and that we will be involved in this more and more. The company has opted for the vision ‘Good nutrition is crucial for a healthy life’.
Sustainability
Sustainability in the broadest sense is absolutely essential for this family business. Koppert Cress has been set up to operate in an energy-efficient manner, making use of LED lighting, energy management by means of underground heat storage, solar collectors, and geothermal energy. The company also treats its staff in a ‘sustainable’ way. The company takes numerous initiatives to make improvements and make working conditions more pleasant. A fine example of this is the company restaurant Rob & Bob. Here, employees are offered a healthy lunch every day, incorporating at least half of the recommended 250g of vegetables for the day.
Dutch Cuisine
Koppert Cress fully supports the principles of Dutch Cuisine: Culture, Health, Nature, Quality, and Value; ‘80-20’, with 80% vegetables and 20% meat, but also 80% local seasonal produce and 20% from further afield. Dutch Cuisine uses what nature offers, without artificial additives, and from head to tail, in the knowledge that what we have is a gift from the previous generation and on loan from the next.
NEWS: Koppert Cress wins battle over working expense scheme healthy employee lunches at Supreme Court!
Euphoric with this statement. Common sense proves decisive: a healthy lunch. Groundbreaking for employers and employees in the Netherlands.
Koppert Cress has triumphantly won the battle in a long-running case with the tax authorities. The issue revolved around the work expense scheme in relation to healthy employee lunches. Driven by the mission to have all their employees reach retirement healthy, Koppert Cress has integrated healthy food into their Health & Safety policy. In the company restaurant Rob & Bob, a collaboration between Rob Baan (Koppert Cress) and Bob Hutten (Hutten Catering), no unhealthy options are offered, but rather healthy meals. As part of the Health & Safety policy, employee lunches were offered free of charge to ease the transition from soft drinks to fruit water and from fries to vegetable-rich meals.
Rob Baan, CEO Koppert Cress gives more information
