The Begijnhof is one of the oldest hofjes in Amsterdam, Netherlands. A group of historic buildings, mostly private dwellings, centre on it. As the name suggests, it was originally a Béguinage. Today it is also the site of two churches, the Catholic Houten Huys and the English Reformed Church. Earliest times The Begijnhof is the only inner court in Amsterdam which was founded during the Middle […]
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The Royal Palace of Amsterdam in Amsterdam is one of three palaces in the Netherlands which are at the disposal of the monarch by Act of Parliament. It is situated on the west side of Dam Square in the centre of Amsterdam, opposite the War Memorial and next to the Nieuwe Kerk. The palace was built as a city hall during the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The building […]
The Peace Palace is an international law administrative building in The Hague, the Netherlands. It houses the International Court of Justice (which is the principal judicial body of the United Nations), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), The Hague Academy of International Law and the Peace Palace Library. The Palace officially opened on 28 August 1913, and was originally built to provide a home for the PCA, a court […]
The Binnenhof is a complex of buildings in the city centre of The Hague, Netherlands, next to the Hofvijver. It houses the meeting place of both houses of the States General of the Netherlands, as well as the Ministry of General Affairs and the office of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Built primarily in the 13th century, the Gothic castle originally functioned […]
The Gevangenpoort (Prisoner’s Gate) is a former gate and medieval prison on the Buitenhof in The Hague, Netherlands. It is situated next to the 18th-century art gallery founded by William V, Prince of Orange in 1774 known as the Prince William V Gallery. History of the prison From 1420 until 1828, the prison was used for housing people who had committed serious crimes while they awaited […]
Escher in Het Paleis (Escher in The Palace) is a museum in The Hague, Netherlands, featuring the works of the Dutch graphical artist M. C. Escher. It is housed in the Lange Voorhout Palace since November 2002. In 2015 it was revealed that many of the prints on display at the museum were replicas, scanned from original prints and printed onto the same […]
Madurodam is a miniature park and tourist attraction in the Scheveningen district of The Hague in the Netherlands. It is home to a range of 1:25 scale model replicas of famous Dutch landmarks, historical cities and large developments. The park was opened in 1952 and has since been visited by tens of millions of visitors. The entirety of net proceeds from […]
The hospital consisted of only 6 beds when it was founded. The JKZ is now a children’s hospital with a large outpatient clinic and 90 beds in several nursing wards. We treat premature babies and children with (congenital) disorders or other problems in our Neonatology department. The Juliana Children’s Hospital has the largest emergency care for children in […]
HMC is one of the 26 top clinical hospitals in the Netherlands. We have an answer to the wide variety of acute and highly complex care needs of the multicultural inhabitants in our internationally oriented region and take into account that some of our patients are less proficient in the language. Our patients can rely on […]
Aramco is a world leader in integrated energy and chemicals. Our offices in Europe support a wide range of activities from facilitating the safe and reliable delivery of energy to customers around the globe, to pushing for breakthroughs in research and innovation.
Voerman has more than 30 years of experience in the moving and relocation industry. Though we still feel like a young company, we have been around the block. In 1986, Ed Voerman founded Voerman International. Ed soon discovered that globalization had a huge influence on the moving industry. Due to the continual process of worldwide […]
We verkennen de grenzen van de wetenschap om geneesmiddelen te ontwikkelen die voor patiënten het verschil maken. De geneesmiddelen die we ontwikkelen hebben een sterke focus op oncologie, cardiovasculaire-, renale- (nier-) en metabole ziekten (CVRM) en ademhalingsziekten. Onze doelen zijn méér kwaliteit van leven, ondanks een ernstige (chronische) ziekte, en een langere levensverwachting. We investeren […]
At Airborne we know that innovation in manufacturing through automation, digitalisation and advanced analytics is the catalyst for the significant increase in productivity that companies need to stay competitive. We understand the complexity and cost involved in producing composite products for demanding applications in highly regulated industries. Our legacy in advanced composites manufacturing makes us […]
About Hague and London Oil plc is an energy company with a diverse portfolio of production, development, appraisal and exploration assets primarily focused in the Southern North Sea. Our strategy The Group’s strategy is to build shareholder value through the exploration and development of its existing assets, while seeking potential new opportunities. In pursuit of these aims, the […]
Zeeman is a Dutch chain store with 1,300 establishments in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Austria and Spain. History The first store was opened by Jan Zeeman in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands in March 1967. It was a kind of supermarket for clothes, and proved to be quite a success, followed soon by the opening of more stores. The distribution centre is still located in Alphen aan den Rijn. Zeeman’s house colors are […]
Wavin B.V. is a Dutch manufacturer of plastic pipes, mainly for drainage and water supply purposes. The company was officially founded on 5 August 1955, its name deriving from water and vinyl chloride. The company provides plastic pipe systems and products for tap water, surface heating and cooling, soil and waste, rain water, distribution of drinking water and gas and telecom applications. The company is […]
Ecotone (formerly Royal Wessanen) is a multinational food company with a focus on organic, founded in the Netherlands and headquartered in France since November 2020. It has operations in Europe and North America. Worldwide it had approx 2,000 employees at the end of 2011, a year in which it reported a revenue of €706 million. The company is owned by PAI Partners (62 %) and Charles Jobson (38 %), shares for […]
Royal Imtech N.V. was a European technical services provider in the fields of electrical solutions, ICT (information and communication technology) and mechanical solutions. Its residence was in Gouda, Netherlands. Imtech shares were listed on the NYSE Euronext Stock Exchange in Amsterdam, where Imtech was included in the AEX Index. Imtech shares were also included in the Dow Jones STOXX 600 index. With 29,000 […]
Liander is a Dutch utility company which operates in the distribution of electricity and natural gas in part of the Netherlands. Liander NV is the largest utility company in the Netherlands, managing the energy network in the provinces of Gelderland and Noord-Holland entirely, and in large parts of Flevoland, Friesland and Zuid-Holland. Liander NV was formerly known as Continuon, and is now a division of the umbrella-company Alliander. Alliander includes also […]
Hunkemöller is a clothing manufacturer from the Netherlands, specialising in underclothes and lingerie. The company was founded in 1886 in Amsterdam as a special shop for corsets. Nowadays it is an omni-channel brand with more than 7,400 employees in 21 countries. Hunkemöller is one of the field leaders in ladies underwear, especially in the Low Countries. History Wilhelm Hunkemöller and his wife […]
Hotels.nl, founded in 2001, is a hotel booking site for the Netherlands and Belgium. It was founded by Kees Eldering and Henriette IJzelenberg. In April 2006, Hotels.nl launched their sheep advertising campaign. Although they were not the first to utilize sheep for advertisement, they were the first to do so in the Netherlands. The sheep were equipped with royal blue waterproof blankets with […]
Grolsch Brewery is a Dutch brewery founded in 1615 by Willem Neerfeldt in Groenlo. In 1895 the de Groen family bought the brewery. They had started their own brewery in Enschede the Netherlands in the early 19th century. It held a significant stake until November 2007. Today the main brewery is located in Enschede. It was awarded the Koninklijk (Royal) title in 1995. The […]
Royal FrieslandCampina N.V. is a Dutch multinational dairy cooperative which is based in Amersfoort, Netherlands. It is the result of a merger between Friesland Foods and Campina on 31 December 2008. It is the world’s largest dairy co-operative and one of the top 5 dairy companies in the world with annual revenue of 11 billion euros (2016). FrieslandCampina has branch offices in 33 countries and […]
FRABA is a worldwide company founded in Germany. The company manufactures products for fabrication and process automation and is specialized in sensor manufacturing, for example sensors which are used in windmills and heavy machinery. The company holds several patents of encoder innovation. Until the 1960s, FRABA’s main product was mechanical relays. In 1963 the company started selling brush rotary […]
Feadship (First Export Association of Dutch Shipbuilders) is a cooperative venture between two shipyards Royal Van Lent Shipyard and Koninklijke De Vries Scheepsbouw. Feadship designs and constructs high-end luxury yachts and is one of the leading builders of custom superyachts such as Aquarius, Symphony, Savannah and Venus. History Feadship can trace its roots back to 1849, when the Akerboom family bought a small shipyard off the coast of […]
DSM N.V. (Royal DSM, commonly known as DSM), is a Dutch multinational corporation active in the fields of health, nutrition and materials. Headquartered in Heerlen, at the end of 2017 DSM employed 21,054 people in approximately 50 countries and posted net sales of €8.632 billion. Organization DSM’s five business groups are clustered according to product and market combinations, with the business group […]
Koninklijke Philips N.V. (literally Royal Philips, commonly shortened to Philips, stylized in its logo as PHILIPS) is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven. Since 1997, it has been mostly headquartered in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarters is still in Eindhoven. Philips was formerly one of the largest electronics companies in the world, currently focused in the area of health technology, […]
Heineken N.V. is a Dutch brewing company, founded in 1864 by Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam. As of 2017, Heineken owns over 165 breweries in more than 70 countries. It produces 250 international, regional, local and speciality beers and ciders and employs approximately 73,000 people. With an annual beer production of 188,300,000 hectolitres (160,500,000 US bbl) in 2015, and global revenues of 20.511 billion euro […]
The ING Group is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam. The three letters (ING) stand for „Internationale Nederlanden Groep“. Its primary businesses are retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, wholesale banking, private banking, asset management, and insurance services. With total assets of US$1.1 trillion, it is one of the biggest banks in the […]
Louis Dreyfus Company B.V. (LDC), also called the Louis-Dreyfus Group, is a global merchant firm that is involved in agriculture, food processing, international shipping, and finance. The company owns and manages hedge funds, ocean vessels, develops and operates telecommunications infrastructures, and it is also involved in real estate development, management and ownership. It is one of the „ABCD“ quartet of companies – alongside Archer […]
Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V., commonly known as Ahold Delhaize, is a Belgian-Dutch grocery retail company. Its business format includes supermarkets, convenience stores, hypermarkets, online grocery, online non-food, drugstores, and liquor stores. Its 21 local brands employ 375,000 people at 6,500 stores in 11 countries. Ahold Delhaize’s international headquarters is in Zaandam, Netherlands.[3] Its brands are active in the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Greece, Luxembourg, Romania, […]
Airbus SE is a European multinational aerospace corporation. As of 2019, Airbus is the world’s largest airliner manufacturer and took the most airliner orders, surpassing rival Boeing. It designs, manufactures and sells civil and military aerospace products worldwide and manufactures aircraft in the European Union and various other countries. The company has three divisions: Commercial Aircraft (Airbus S.A.S.), Defence and Space, and Helicopters, the third being the […]
Exor N.V. is an Italian holding company, incorporated in the Netherlands and controlled by the Italian Agnelli family through privately held company Giovanni Agnelli B.V. In 2019 it recorded revenues of $144 billion, making it the 28th largest group in the world by revenue, according to the 2020 Fortune Global 500 List. It has a history of investments running over a century, which notably include auto and truck manufacturers Stellantis, Ferrari and CNH […]
Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known as Shell, is an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom as a public limited company. It is one of the oil and gas „supermajors“ and, measured by 2020 revenues, the fifth-largest company in the world, the largest based in Europe, and the largest not based in either the United States […]
Hotelschool The Hague is a single sector University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands. Hotelschool The Hague was founded and funded in 1929 by the hospitality industry. In 2010, Hotelschool The Hague founded its university wide Research Centre, focusing on interdisciplinary research with a strong practice-oriented focus. Programmes Bachelor of Business Administration in Hotel Management Hotelschool […]
HAS University of Applied Sciences (Dutch: HAS Hogeschool) is an independent university of applied sciences, specialising in food, agriculture, horticulture, nature and environment. It is located in ’s-Hertogenbosch, the regional capital of North Brabant and Venlo, Limburg. All bachelor programmes are accredited by the Dutch Flemish Accreditation Organisation. In 2017 there were around 3400 students enrolled at HAS University of Applied Sciences. History On 13 October 1947 MLS (middelbare landbouwschool) […]