Business profile

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ForFarmers is a trendsetting, international company active in the agricultural feed sector. The company develops and produces innovative and sustainable feed solutions for livestock farming and is the market leader in Europe. Thanks to more than a hundred years of experience in the agricultural sector, ForFarmers knows this world quite well. Through expansion of activities in Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom in previous years, a unique combination of knowledge and experience has been created, which is deployed to support farmers during the realisation of their business objectives.

With its Total Feed approach, ForFarmers offers farmers integrated feed solutions consisting of feed products, advice and tools to support farmers in determining their business objectives and to monitor their results.

The Nutrition Innovation Centre (NIC) of ForFarmers works on improving the technical performance of feed – e.g. feed efficiency and optimal growth of the animal – and the development of innovative nutritional solutions that contribute to good animal health. In addition the NIC focuses on further sustainability of in-house products and of livestock farming in general. This takes place in close co-operation with internationally renowned research institutes and universities.



ForFarmers employs 2,370 employees (fulltime-equivalents) and has production facilities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. The head office is based in Lochem (the Netherlands). In 2015, the Total Feed volume was 9.1 million tonnes and the net annual turnover was € 2.2 billion. The gross profit was € 424.2 million.

Sustainable business

Due to population growth and increasing economic prosperity, the demand for animal protein such as meat, eggs and dairy products is expected to increase worldwide in the coming decades. The challenge is to produce this increasing amount of food sustainably and to minimise the use of raw materials and natural resources like energy, land and water. For ForFarmers, sustainability is therefore an integral and clear element of business operations. This applies to both its own operations and to the development of products for its customers. 

Considering its position in the value chain, the feed industry plays an important role in solving sustainability issues in the production process of meat, eggs and dairy products. It is the ambition of ForFarmers to be ahead of the field in sustainability, in particular in utilisation of raw materials, production, logistics and the development and offer of efficient feed solutions. In this way, the company intends to contribute to a commercially profitable and sustainable food production.

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