Enjoyment on the shopfloor and in society

We consider being a good employer important. We accomplish this by creating a meaningful, safe and open work culture in which our 2,500 colleagues work with satisfaction. We consider it important that our products, ‘from farm to fork’, are produced and experienced with passion and satisfaction. 

 Happy People

We attach a great deal of importance to the cooperation with our customers and aim to be a valuable partner for them. It is our aim to have consumers sit at the table with joy and to have them enjoy our potato specialties.


Our foods and nutritional ingredients mainly fit into a sustainable, plant-based nutritional pattern. We have an innovative mentality, so when we see an opportunity, we immediately seize it. This way we are working on an increasingly plant-based world together with our customers and consumers. 

We connect people, cultures and tastes throughout the world by bringing joy to tables.

Our goals

Meaningful and safe work

feel engaged

a working environment in which employees feel engaged: baseline measurement for employee engagement

Meaningful and safe work

≥ 30%

zero harm, no injuries: ≥ 30% annual reduction in lost-time accidents 

Happy people at the table

3 bn

Globally connect people at 3 billion tables (2025)

Happy people at the table

Plant-based alternatives

in every product category (2025)

Happy people at the table

≥7

customer feedback ≥ 7 (2025)

Happy people at the table

Gold

Ecovadis ≥ gold score (annually)

“Every colleague deserves a great and safe working environment in which we can rely on each other, grow together and experience joyful moments. This forms the basis of everything we do.” 


Wendy Haitsma - Chief Human Resources Officer Aviko

Governance

With the support of our HR and Safety colleagues we are jointly responsible for an inspiring, meaningful and safe working environment in which we can trust each other, grow and enjoy our work. Together with our innovation experts and commercial colleagues we develop plant-based alternatives for all of our products and ensure we connect with our customers. 

Meaningful and safe work

Our products would never reach the table of our consumers without our 2,500 colleagues. We aim to strengthen this growing community by facilitating an inspiring, meaningful, safe working environment and by continuously further developing our people, organisation and culture. We aim to keep our people productive and healthy throughout their entire career by stimulating and developing them. We are proud of the fact that our people on average have been employed at Aviko for 13 years. We use various means to create an environment in which everyone feels at home and can continue to grow, such as a culture programme, a policy related to vitality and sustainable employment, a focus on diversity and inclusiveness and by devoting constant attention to safeguarding human rights and a safe working environment. In the near future we will carry out a company-wide baseline measurement to determine the level of employee engagement. Based on this we can set a specific target for 2025 and better determine how we can further improve employee engagement over the coming years.


We use various means to create an environment in which everyone feels at home and can continue to grow, such as a culture programme, a policy related to vitality and sustainable employment, a focus on diversity and inclusiveness and by devoting constant attention to safeguarding human rights and a safe working environment. 

Stories

Granules & Flakes

Chilled & Frozen

Safe place to work

Aviko aims for everyone to have a safe and healthy workplace. For us this begins with mental safety. An open culture in which you are allowed to, dare and can say what you want. This includes reporting unsafe situations that we then resolve together. This occurs in various forums, such as the safety platforms (integrated safety teams) at our locations with participants from the entire organisation. We record unsafe situations, near misses and accidents in order to learn from them and improve situations with a clear focus...

Granules & Flakes

Strengthening our culture

Aviko Rixona’s culture programme is a good example of our HR strategy ‘Strengthening our growing family by stimulating a great working environment and continuously developing our people, organisation and culture’. This is a long-term programme that consists of various initiatives relating to cooperation, leadership and company values. All Rixona colleagues are involved in this programme. The goal is to increase employee satisfaction and to further develop our people. There were various...

Chilled & Frozen

Sustainable employment and vitality 

At Aviko, we consider sustainable employment and the vitality of our colleagues important, which is why we are investing in this. On average, our people have been working at Aviko for 13 years and we are proud of this. For employees with physically heavy work, for example, it is a challenge to keep this up until they retire. On the basis of preventive medical research, we assessed the vitality of our colleagues and how we can improve on this. They participate in workshops...

Promoting diversity and inclusiveness

Aviko considers diversity and inclusiveness important. For example, this way we connect customers, neighbourhood residents, consumers, chain partners and growers, and also stimulate diversity and inclusiveness on the shopfloor. We do not differentiate in terms of gender, cultural or religious background, competences, age and physical capacities. At Aviko we consider it important for everyone to be able to start working with a solid base of...

Safeguarding human rights

We care about people at Aviko. We believe that all people should be treated equally and with respect. Not only at our own production and other locations, but also in our supply chains and in the communities in which we operate. The term human rights expresses this: these are the fundamental freedoms and the protection all people are entitled to, simply because they are human beings. We further formalised our policy concerning human rights last year therefore, and this policy will be further implemented in 2022. 

Joy to tables

We aim to bring joy to tables with our products. We do this by bringing excellent ingredients and products on the market together with our customers. We focus on launching innovative plant-based products and bringing together and connecting people, cultures and tastes. After all, things taste better when people eat together.