Krispy Kreme signed an agreement with Jafa Holding BV to bring Krispy Kreme to the Netherlands. The country’s first shop is expected to open in late 2026.
While most bakers fall under the Netherlands’ proposed Energy Cost Allowance (TEK), it arrives too late for artisan bakeries, which have taken the brunt of the abrupt energy cost increase and were forced to go out of business.
When Jan van Maanen opened his baker’s shop in the Dutch village of Katwijk aan den Rijn in 1907, little did he know that over a century later, his name would be attached to 52 stores with over 100,000 weekly customers.
Hard to clean, inaccurate and sensors that constantly failed to operate – a major bakery in the Netherlands struggled with these problems when transporting a dough bowl. The solution was to install a new bowl transport system.