Space to realise your ambitions
Doing business in Flevoland
Entrepreneurs find space in Flevoland to realise their ambitions.They have a hands-on mentality, tackling is in the Flevoland people's blood.Guts to do things differently from others.Daring to experiment, to be idiosyncratic and innovative.
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Agro & Food
Agro & Food
The agricultural sector is one of Flevoland's largest economic sectors.
Discover the agricultural sector
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Maritime / fishing
Maritime / fishing
Urk grew into a world-class fish distribution centre.
More on fisheries
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Sustainable business
Sustainable business
By 2050, we must be carbon neutral, including in Flevoland.
More on sustainable business
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ICT
ICT
ICT is developing at lightning speed, also in Flevoland.
More info on ICT
Stories from Flevolanders - How do they do business?
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Bio Brass
Peace, space and variety in agriculture. That combination forms the foundation of Bio Brass. This Flevoland company grows specific crops on around 250 hectares of land in a whole of some 2,000 hectares.
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Econowind
How do you use wind energy to power large ocean-going vessels? With that question, engineer Frank Nieuwenhuis set to work in 2016. He elaborated on an idea by explorer Jacques Cousteau, resulting in the VentoFoil. An innovative aluminium wing that allows sea-going vessels to save fuel and reduce theirCO2 emissions.
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Eurobottle
Knowledge, quality and innovation. That's what Eurobottle stands for. The Dronten-based company has been around for 30 years and has been producing water bottles and water bottles from sugarcane waste for over 10 years. Completely bio-based and recyclable.
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Classic Mike
In Zeewolde, entrepreneur Mike Kastrop shows that you can run a successful business while making social impact. With his classic car restoration company Classic Mike, he gives young people who need extra guidance the chance to learn a trade, grow and develop their talents.
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999 Games
From a one-man shop on a flat to market leader in board games. The 999 Games company is turning the games world on its head and it is doing so from a new 5,000-square-metre, 16-metre-high building in Almere, a state-of-the-art city with boundless possibilities.
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Herbert
Brothers Jan and Ronald Herbert's whole life revolves around sprouts. As little boys, they helped their father in the fields. Secretly, they dreamed of fully automatic picking. That dream came true in early 2022. The world's first fully automated Brussels sprouts picking machine is running in Zeewolde, at the brothers' place.
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Weforsea Shipping
Water temperature, salinity, currents and where the fish are: Weforsea Shipping places sensors on board ships and in the nets that go overboard. A wealth of data is collected on board, which - via a satellite link - is read in real time at the office at Marsdiep 4 in Urk.
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Bagtag
'Emerged from a kind of logical evolution of all the innovations that make travelling easier,' says managing director Jasper Quak of Almere-based BAGTAG. You can pay for groceries with your watch these days, but if you fly, you stand in line for a paper suitcase label. With the digital bag label from Almere-based company BAGTAG, this is a thing of the past.
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Holland Composites
The 'bathtub' - the new white wing - of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is perhaps Holland Composites' best-known project in Lelystad. It is just one of its projects. Starting out making composite sailing ships, the company grew into 'the' composites specialist.
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VHM Machinery
Looking ahead. Being bold. Taking risks. That's in Rik van Hees's blood. His grandfather did this by settling on the new land as a farmer in the 1950s. His father took over the farm, sold the land and started a contracting business. In that workshop, Rik tinkered together his first machines.
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The Reimert Group
On the excavator, the Reimert brothers travelled from Raalte to the new land in 1978. Almere had just fallen dry, so plenty of work. Especially in earthmoving. They seized the adventure. And with success. For over 50 years, the Reimert Group has grown into Flevoland's largest construction company.
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VanMeijel Automation
In 1987, in his attic room, Frans van Meijel devised a software package for making calculations in civil engineering. Now 30 years later, his sons Theo and Peter van Meijel are continuing their father's work.
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Odd.Bot: Weed Whacker
Martijn Lukaart of Odd.Bot didn't have to think long about where to develop his innovative Weed Whacker: 'Flevoland is the hotspot for organic farming. There is still plenty of manual weeding in this sector.'
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Atelier Unravelau
Almere is very progressive in promoting the circular economy. A good example is Laura Meijering. She got the chance to open her own studio in Almere. Her goal is to design and produce clothes that are luxurious and environmentally friendly.
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FarmCoaching
The former Zuiderzee soil is full of calcium, which benefits the quality of potatoes. Grower Philip Kroes of FarmCoaching in Dronten regularly gets enthusiastic reactions from people eating his potatoes. His potatoes go all over the world as fries.
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Giant Europe BV
Children's bikes, city and touring bikes, e-bikes, mountain bikes, gravel bikes and racing bikes: they are all assembled nut by nut from the factory hall in Lelystad and then go all over Europe. A story of pioneering on the former seabed.
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Fisherman Hendrik Kramer
Rising diesel prices, falling fish prices and less catch. Fishing conditions were not improving. A change in thinking was needed. Fisherman Hendrik Kramer switched to sustainable fishing.