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On this page, discover what Belgian food and beverage companies are up to – including the latest innovations, investments and events. After all, companies in Belgium don’t sit still for long! For bite-sized news items, satisfy your craving with some food.be snacks. Are you more interested in exports and investments? Check out our Best of Belgium long-read stories. Not in the mood for reading? There’s a food.be video to suit your tastes. Hear the voices of our own companies speak in their own words. Enjoy!

Event

Expo 2020 Dubai

After a long wait, Expo 2020 Dubai opens up to the public! For 173 days, Belgium will showcase its best assets to the world, including of course Belgian food and drinks. 

News

Doing business at international level: out with the old, in with the new?

Contacts make for new contracts.

Best of Belgium

Beyers Koffie: sustainable coffee from bean to cup

Belgium’s largest coffee roaster, Beyers Koffie takes coffee further to reach its bold ambition to become the leading sustainable private-label coffee company.

Snacks

Poco Loco makes Roeselare the European Tex Mex capital

Did you know that Belgium also excels in making tortilla chips and wraps? Last week, the first stone was officially laid in Roeselare for Poco Loco's new, CO2-neutral production facility for tortillas. 

Snacks

2,000 classrooms in Tanzania thanks to Kim's Chocolates

Kim's Chocolates exports tasty Belgian chocolate from Tienen to, among others, Canada and the United States. Kim's Chocolate also assumes its role as a socially responsible company by improving the living conditions of farmers in Tanzania.

Best of Belgium

Bringing Belgium’s favourite pastries to the retail market

As a specialist baker of frangipane, genoise cakes and soft waffles, Lilly’s Cakes brings Belgium’s favourite pastries to your local supermarket. 

Best of Belgium

Dely’s freezer-fresh Belgian waffles are a treat for the world

A third-generation family business, Dely successfully made crafting the perfect freezer waffle its number-one mission – even in the face of big challenges!

Snacks

Brewery The Musketeers expands

The East-Flanders brewery The Musketeers is launching a new specialty beer in cans. Moreover, The Musketeers is increasing its production capacity in order to continue to meet the great demand at home and abroad.

Snacks

Ardo sees the future as green... and red

The global player in frozen vegetables, herbs and fruit uses state-of-the-art technology to innovate. Ardo recently launched beet bacon: a pre-cooked, crispy piece of red beetroot.