Rijk Zwaan Rossija Ltd.

Rijk Zwaan is active worldwide as a vegetable breeding company that focuses on the development of high-quality vegetable varieties for professional growers in food-producing horticulture, be that in glasshouses, tunnels or outdoors.

Activities
Within Rijk Zwaan we are engaged in research and development, production, logistics, quality control and marketing and sales.

Structure
Rijk Zwaan is a totally independent family business with employee participation. 86% of the shares are in the hands of three families and 14% of the capital is in the hands of employees in the form of share certificates.

Employees
Rijk Zwaan has a workforce of about 1,800; slightly less than half this number work at its Dutch locations in De Lier and Fijnaart.

Range
Rijk Zwaan has a very broad base, with more than 850 varieties in approximately 30 different vegetable crops.

Locations
Our head office is situated in De Lier, the Netherlands. In addition we have breeding and production facilities at our disposal all over the world. The subsidiary in Russia is named OOO Rijk Zwaan Rossija.

Sales
We sell our seed in more than 100 different countries all over the world. Rijk Zwaan works not only with locally-operating sales subsidiaries but also with exclusive distributors.