Compagny History

Van Meer's hasn't always been a strawberry compagny. Here you can read what has been done before... In 1968 Jan van Meer (senior) began building a pigsty. Together with his wife he ran a small pigfarm, completed with the cultivation of vegetables. This compagny grew to a successfull and bigger pigfarm. Jan junior left school in in 1996. He decided to go to work at the elderly compagny, but problems in the pig-sector forced the two Jan's to cultivate more and more vegetables. A few years ago they decided to grow some strawberries, just to gain some more income. But they went further. Good approach and mechanisation resulted in a growing strawberry-departement and specialisation became a must. Ever since 2003 the compagny "Van Meer" (taken over by Jan jr. and his wife Jorinda) has been a compagny specialised in cultivating strawberries. It grew to one of the biggest suppliers in the district near Breda; 40 Hectares are being harvested and another 9 hectares are being cultivated. The total compagny surface is 50 hectares.

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