Bens Retail

Four generations later, Vanden Avenne has become under the direction of Patrick Vanden Avenne and his sons Thomas and Maurits, one of the major feed companies in Belgium. Every day the impressive feed unit produces in Ooigem 2.000 tonnes of compound feed. However, the ambition of Vanden Avenne stretches far beyond that. Since 2010, Vanden Avenne has a completely new production unit in Floreffe, ten kilometres from Namur in Belgium. This is the largest production unit of animal feed in Wallonia.

In the past 25 years Vanden Avenne has tripled its turnover and has become the absolute number two of the Belgian feed production. A second feed mill has been started in Floreffe in a joint-venture with the Walloon cooperative Scam and is already running at full capacity. In the meantime Vanden Avenne had developed an important business unit for the processing of pork en poultry meat through its companies Sus Campiniae, Bens Vlees, Bens Retail and Halal Supply. The fifth generation has joined the company with Thomas Vanden Avenne who clears the way for the sixth generation.