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Description:
Introduction and sustainability
The company delivers products in and around Brussels on electric cargo bikes, shortly after harvesting and straight from our farms to your plate. Fewer traffic jams, faster deliveries and lower CO2 emissions. In short: a short chain promotes a sustainable city.
Innovation
They don't choose their producers randomly, but select farmers based on the different values they apply to: Quality products that are grown locally. In addition, they prefer the farms that employ social employment or circular production processes.
Landscape
The ecological distribution platform BruFresh was created to connect farmers and urban agriculture projects with quality products to top chefs looking for the best products from the region. The company takes care of the contact between the farmer and the chef, the purchase and sale of the products, the administration and are responsible for the sustainable logistics. With their electric delivery bikes they can offer better and faster delivery. They guarantee the quality of the products and hey reduce traffic jams and the joint CO2 emissions.
Values and standards
BruFresh mainly focuses on the higher segment hotel and catering industry. Within this segment, extra attention is paid to the processing of products and their origin. They try to help them with this by offering a fresh assortment of niche products.
Scalability and resilience
BruFresh upscales the distribution of food in the city more sustainable and provides top chefs with quality local products. They are already working with severa restaurants and hotels based in Brussels with the following numbers.
- 9000 km more by bike, and therefore less by truck
- A total of 20,000 products delivered every year
- More than 2,250 deliveries every year
- More than 100 chefs convinced of our quality