All Brands Owned by Koninklijke Avebe U.A.

Is Avebe a subsidiary of another company?
No. Avebe is a cooperative owned by its approximately 2,000 member farmers in the Netherlands and Germany. It has no parent company and no external shareholders. The members are both the owners of the company and the suppliers of its raw material, starch potatoes.

Is Avebe publicly traded?
No. As a coöperatie under Dutch law, Avebe has no shares listed on any exchange. Membership belongs to the potato growers who supply the cooperative, and profits are distributed through potato pricing and member payouts rather than dividends to investors.

When was Avebe founded?
Avebe was founded on November 11, 1919, as the Coöperatief Aardappelmeel Verkoop Bureau, a joint sales office for independent farmer-owned starch factories in the Groningen region of the Netherlands. The name Avebe comes from the initials of that Dutch title. It received the Royal designation in 2019 on its centenary.

Who founded Avebe?
Avebe was founded collectively by Dutch starch potato farmers and their cooperative factories, who organized to negotiate better market prices for potato starch. It has no single individual founder. The 1978 takeover of KSH, the company descended from industrialist Willem Albert Scholten, merged the farmer cooperatives with the historic private starch business.

What is Avebe's market position?
Avebe is the largest potato starch producer in Europe and a global leader in potato starch and potato protein ingredients, competing with Penford (Ingredion), Emsland Group, Cargill, and Roquette. It reported EUR 766 million in net turnover for fiscal 2024/2025, with about half of sales in the European Union and 45 percent to the rest of the world.

What does Avebe make?
Avebe processes starch potatoes into native and modified potato starch for food, paper, adhesive, textile, and construction applications, and into potato protein products sold under names like Solanic for human nutrition. Specialty lines include PerfectaGEL, a plant-based gelatin alternative for confectionery, and PerfectaMAR for surimi.