Firm return Henk de Jong

Despite the corona crisis, the 500 richest Dutch people have collectively become a lot richer than last year. This is evident from the annual Quote 500 list of business and money magazine Quote. The 500 richest Dutch people together have a capital of 186 billion euros, which is more than 6 billion more than they had last year. Traditionally, we have put the fruit and vegetable and horticultural people together again. Handy if you are looking for a rich daughter ….

Fries: Well done, but not this year
Within the fruit and vegetable trade we see that the potato processors have done well, although the Corona pandemic did not benefit the result of the chip farmers. Quote estimated the assets of Kees Meijer (Lamb Weston Meijer) at 440 million euros, Piet de Bruijne (Farm Frites) at 190 million euros and Gerard Kroef (Peka Kroef) at 145 million euros.

Krautboys is Leading
Piet and Frans Kramer (Vezet) are approaching the top 200 and according to Quote the fifth generation Kramer is also warm. Piet’s son Nick is already participating and anyone who looks at the companies that Frans has set up for his children knows that their careers have already been mapped out. Under his’ Puurt wat zuurt ‘, for example,’ Goed Gevat ‘,’ Krautboy ‘,’ Krautgirl ‘and Krautgirl-i’ have been hanging for some time now.

Jan van den Heuvel: Strong eighties
In place 288 we see Jack Aartsen again. According to Quote, Aartsen wrote fresh results in the broken financial year 2018-19: turnover rose by 10% to just under 250 million and an amount of 8 million euros was below the line. Aartsen himself got his teeth into a juicy dividend of 8.5 million euros. On record 349 good-old Jan van den Heuvel, who describes the magazine as a strong eighties, referring to the interview on our site

Seed breeding: Piet Mazereeuw in the lead
Within the horticultural suppliers we see seed breeders in high positions every year. Piet Mazereeuw (Enza Zaden) is the absolute leader with an estimated capital of 480 million euros, but Anton van Doornmalen and Ben Taks (both 250 million) also live up to the name Rijk Zwaan, according to Quote, with net profits of around 50 million euros annually. euros or higher. Lara Timmerman and her cousin Arwin Vriend sold Pop Vriend Seeds to KWS for 400 million euros. Simon Groot (East West Seed) won the World Food Prize last year and with his capital of 150 million euros, he can celebrate quite a lot.

Floriculture: Year in parking position
Corona caused a shock in the floriculture industry in mid-March, which is why the twins Iwan and Mark van der Knaap (Anthura) are not rising too fast in the Quote rankings. Dutch Flower brothers Marco and Jaco van Zijverden also make a dip on the list from 154 to 188. According to Quote, a small part of the profit has withered and the largest customer – Tesco – took off. Finally, the life of Gerrit and Peter Barnhoorn was not always smooth, according to Quote. The sisters Annie and Margriet Beekenkamp are also parked for a year by the magazine.

Horticultural suppliers: Ronald Boers (Boal) new on the list
New in the Quote is Ronald Boers of BOAL Group, whose capital is estimated at 125 million euros. The horticultural supplier was taken over by private equity house Equistone Partners Europe two years ago, but Boers allowed the company to peak a year before the sale with a gross operating profit of 19 million euros, so that a large part of its selling shares. The assets of both Piet Bakker (Van Iperen) and John van der Klugt (Wayland) are estimated at 105 million euros, where Quote states that Van der Klugt owes most of his assets to horticulture, but that real estate is playing an increasingly important role play. Peter and Paul Koppert of Koppert Biological Systems close the horticultural row with an estimated net worth of 97 million.

Return of Henk de Jong
We group Jan van der Horst of catering wholesaler Hanos with an estimated net worth of 240 million euros under the heading of fruit and vegetable related people. At last 332 is transport operator Wolter Koops, who recorded a net profit of 10 million euros over the last financial year. He still stands in front of Henk de Jong (De Jong Packaging) who is making a solid return to the list with an estimated capital of 165 million euros. Last but not least: Frank van Gool of Otto Work Force (3,303 / 125 million euros) who keeps some 22,000 labor migrants at work, including in horticulture.

It is not without reason that the fresh produce department is called the cash cow of the supermarket, which is why we also give supermarket entrepreneurs a place on the list. With exactly 1 – well, actually 4, Karel van Eerd of Jumbo Supermarkten, whose capital is estimated at a sweet 2.5 billion euros.

Family list: De Ruiter and Beemsterboer between the supermarkets
The richest families also receive a separate mention in the Rijkenblad every year. In 18th place we see the family of supermarket entrepreneur Dirk van den Broek, who passed away this year, with an estimated capital of 690 million euros. At 21 we see the De Ruiter family who made a big hit in 2008 when they sold De Ruiter Seeds to Monsanto. In 29th place, we see the Deen supermarket family (470 million euros). The family knows you have to divide to multiply because all employees returned a 10% corona bonus over the hours worked from March through August. The Heijn family is ‘only’ in 33rd place (440 million euros) and the Slippens family of Sligro also plunges from 21st to 40th place with an estimated net worth of 350 million euros. According to Quote, the Beemsterboer family of Bejo Zaden also made a profit of only 21 million euros in the last financial year, which was double that two years earlier. A lot less dividend was paid out at 9 million euros, a decrease of 50%. But because of this economy, Bejo has a very healthy, debt-free balance, according to the magazine.