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For over 50 years, the owners of Global Food Group have been specialising in producing and trading eggs and egg products. From a small-scale poultry farm including door-to-door selling of eggs and dairy, the company has grown into a completely vertically incorporated producer of fluid egg products.
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1959
Foundation
Joep and Alda Lemmers start their own laying poultry and cattle farm.
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1959
Own sale
Joep Lemmers starts selling his own eggs and dairy through door-to-door selling.
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1963
Construction rearing company
In 1963, Joep and Alda Lemmers built a rearing stable to rear their own laying hens.
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1990
Takeover by the 2nd generation
Math Lemmers and his wife Petra take over Lemmers poultry company bv.
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1996
Egg packing centre
The eggs are sorted.
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1999
Fluid egg products
Math and Petra Lemmers set up a small-scale factory for egg products, and start trading in fluid egg products.
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2005
New buildings
The poultry company’s new buildings and factory for fluid egg products.
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2009
Merger
Merger with Egg Products Ospel from the Jacobs family; both families merge their company activities under the name Global Food Group.
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2010-2015
Chain incorporation
Global Food Group works on a vertical incorporation: this leads to the takeover of 2 feed mills, collaborations with contracted laying poultry and rearing companies, and a strategic collaboration with a farm.
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2016
Shares takeover
The Lemmers family takes over the 50% equity interest of the Jacobs family, making Global Food Group 100% the property of the Lemmers family.