General Information

Rijk Zwaan is active worldwide as a vegetable breeding company that focuses on the development of high-quality vegetable varieties for professional growers in food-producing horticulture, be that in glasshouses, tunnels or outdoors. In the world’s top 10 of globally-operating vegetable breeding companies, Rijk Zwaan holds a mid-position.

Activities
Within Rijk Zwaan we are engaged in research and development, production, logistics, quality control and marketing and sales.
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Structure
Rijk Zwaan is a totally independent family business with employee participation. 86% of the shares are in the hands of three families and 14% of the capital is in the hands of employees in the form of share certificates.


Employees
Rijk Zwaan has a workforce of about 1,600; slightly less than half this number work at its Dutch locations in De Lier and Fijnaart.
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Range
Rijk Zwaan has a very broad base, with more than 850 varieties in approximately 30 different vegetable crops.
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Locations
Our head office is situated in De Lier, the Netherlands. In addition we have breeding and production facilities at our disposal all over the world.
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Sales
We sell our seed in more than 100 different countries all over the world. Rijk Zwaan works not only with locally-operating sales subsidiaries but also with exclusive distributors.
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Rijk Zwaan  |  P.O. Box 40 |  2678 ZG  De Lier  |  The Netherlands  |  T: +31 (0)174 532 300  |  F: +31 (0)174 532 163  |  E:  |  W: http://www.rijkzwaan.com