Altena Potatoes is a Dutch potato distributor that provides potatoes to supermarkets, fresh product wholesalers, potato packaging firms, peeling companies, catering enterprises, and exporters. The firm sorts, washes, grades, packs, stores, and distributes potatoes in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and other markets. Potatoes are available cleaned or unwashed and in a variety of packing types, including net bags, plastic bags, jute bags, crates, and bulk amounts. Altena exports potatoes in bags, Big Bags, containers, or straight to ports.
Altena Potatoes is a family business of the brothers Joop and Kees Schouten and Eddy (4th generation), the son of Kees. Altena Potatoes mostly supplies potatoes to wholesalers and packers. They sell to supermarkets and market vendors. Their company has been around for almost 90 years and after many years in Wijk en Aalburg, they moved in 2017 to their new, spacious building at Veensesteeg 15 in Veen. Here they have 8 loading docks, 5 cold stores for storage, and a weighbridge (up to 70 tons). They have a sorting and packaging line, a potato washer, and storage bunkers.
Altena Potatoes, based in Veen, the Netherlands, has been a potato wholesaler for many years and is now entirely controlled by the fourth generation, Eddy Schouten, as of January 1, 2023.
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April 11, 2023
New potatoes in short supply, so Maltese potatoes most welcome
The Dutch company Altena Potatoes received its first full truckloads of Santé potatoes.
June 13, 2021
Big demand for import potatoes in the Netherlands
It's a good season for import potatoes in the Netherlands. More people are cooking at home. That's undoubtedly contributing to this, as are the 'old' potatoes deteriorating quality.
March 25, 2020
First new potatoes on Malta harvested
Kees Schouten, from Altena Potatoes: 'The question is how the market will respond to new potatoes in these turbulent times'.
October 24, 2012
Netherlands: 'Despite high price there is a lot of demand for potatoes'
The mood in the Dutch potato market still remains good, according to potato exporter Altena: "Despite the high prices, there is still a good demand,"says Kees Schouten of Potato Wholesale Altena.From the archive
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