1965
Beginning trade in legumes 1965
In 1965, Piet van der Waal started to peddle his wares from door to door. His merchandise mainly consisted of potatoes, vegetables and fruit. After a few years, he started looking for marketplaces for potatoes and legumes.
The wholesale sector soon came up with the question of whether he could supply legumes in consumer packaging. This turned out to be a "gap in the market", where the weighing of the legumes was still done manually in the beginning.
Afterwards, a machine was purchased to weigh these packages automatically, and soon after that a real packaging machine followed, taking care of the entire process from weighing to filling.
This company grew steadily, resulting in long days and little rest. In 1995, Piet suffered from a hernia and could not do his job anymore. He was eventually confined to bed and his work was done by his wife and children. A proper family business was created, in which his son Peter developed as a deputy. This soon became definite, with a considerable increase in packaging.
In 2015, we celebrated our 50th anniversary and Piet van der Waal thought this was a good opportunity to say goodbye, so Peter became 100% owner and director. The company soon turned out to be too big to be run by one person and Herman Bulk became co-owner in 2017.
In 1997, the old location became too small and the trucks couldn't reach it anymore and, as a result, a move to the industrial area of Strijen proved necessary.
When in 2004, this location also became too small, a second space was added, the floor area was expanded from 500m² to 1200m².