Colruyt Group
Profile
Retail Group active in the distribution of food and non-food products throughout Belgium, France and Luxembourg. Other activities include fuel distribution, digital printing solutions and green energy production. Colruyt Group has its own production facilities for meat processing, bread, cheese cutting, wine bottling and coffee roasting. The mission is creating sustainable added value together, through value-driven craftsmanship in retail.
Competences & Capabilities
The main areas of specialisation are:
- Digital shopping solutions for consumers
- Digital supply chain
- Digital personalisation
- Data quality
- Consumer behaviour change
- Food and health
- Food and environmental footprint
- Innovative food products
- Sustainable packaging
Colruyt Group, Edingensesteenweg 196, 1500 Halle, Belgium
Contact
Veerle Poppe EIT lead
veerle.poppe@colruytgroup.com
+32 477 971 673
Partner in the following EIT Food projects
Circular Food Generator Track
The proposed waste streams are bread, bananas and potatoes, which still have significant potential for use within the context of innovative food solutions
GLAD - Green Last Mile Delivery: a more sustainable way for food home delivery tailored to consumer needs
The objective of the GLAD activity (Green last mile delivery) is to develop both a strategy and a platform that helps making the last mile in food e-commerce at the same time sustainable and adapted to consumer needs while taking into account the economic reality
Mtching COVID
Covid-19 has infected millions of people all around the world
SmartFoodLogging (SFL)
SFL will develop a platform where health coaches and consumers come together to motivate user reaching their goal
Healthtricous
The more COVID-19 is studied, the more it becomes clear that there is a link between the impact of the virus and the health status of patients
inPaper: Innovative paper-based packaging technology and pack styles for food products
China is restricting plastic waste imports
Robin Food
The recent pandemic has resulted in enormous amounts of surplus leftovers such as vegetables and fresh fruits, causing difficulties for farmers
Better for the environment, better for my health
The objective of the ‘Better for the environment, better for your health’ solution is to raise the consumer’s understanding of the impact of food production and consumption on the environment and link this with their dietary patterns
EIT Food Digital Marketplace for Side Streams
The goal of this project is to enable companies worldwide to easily identify candidate side streams for valorisation to catalyse match-making between suppliers and buyers and to build a knowledge base for EIT Food making this European consortium a game changer in the global circular bioeconomy
The development of organic supply chains that drive fair, transparent and healthy options for the consumer
On a global basis the amount of fraud occurring in the organic supply system is growing rapidly and issues are appearing on a weekly basis
EATrends & food fashion week
Events will take place in Spain and Belgium during 2019, engaging members of the public in food trends and innovations, enabling them to have a leading role and become real influencers
PERFECT - Plant Extract for Reduced-sugar Foods, including Extruded Cereals, bars & biscuits, using innovative processing Technologies
Excessive sugar consumption is a contributing factor for a variety of non-communicable diseases (e
REIMS-based analysis platform for improved traceability and consumer purchase intention of high-end food products
In the last decades, a number of food crises, have threatened consumer confidence in the food industry, driving food business operators to go beyond mandatory traceability requirements and develop systems which integrate information at all stages of the supply chain
‘SEE & EAT’: Communicating the benefits of visual familiarity as a strategy for introducing healthy foods into children’s diets 2020
Children’s food preferences depend on food familiarity and liking, and research shows that visually familiarizing children with foods before they taste them (e