Trusted partner
Vion has strong, long-term relationships with its suppliers, and works intensively with livestock farmers, sector organizations and traders. This close collaboration with professional and reliable partners guarantees food safety when breeding, in stables and during transport. The cooperation has also allowed us to develop sustainable, animal-friendly programs for the production of meat, providing us with a substantial market share in organic meat.
In addition to a large number of producer and livestock trade organisations, two Vion subsidiaries (Vion Zucht- und Nutzvieh GmbH in North and East Germany, and Vion Rundvee in the Netherlands) also ensure a constant supply of beef cattle.
Vion Rundvee B.V.
The employees at Vion Rundvee supervise the purchase and sale of all animal flows in cattle farming. This concerns cattle intended for
meat production, calves, breeding and production cattle and export cattle. Vion Rundvee is responsible for the transport of slaughter cattle from all over the Netherlands to the production location of Vion Tilburg.
Vion RundveeNet gives livestock farmers online insight into the slaughter data from Vion slaughterhouses. The dashboard provides direct insight into the weight, quality and animal health records of the animals. Together with their own veterinarian, livestock farmers can take action to prevent or control possible animal health recordings in the livestock in the long term. In this way, they optimise their operational management for milk production, and produce healthier cows with a higher meat turnover.
Vion Zucht- und Nutzvieh
Vion Zucht- und Nutzvieh GmbH is a Vion Food Group company in Germany. It is the main supplier of slaughter cattle for Vion and also operates cattle trading as an additional service to the cattle farmer.
Vion Zucht- und Nutzvieh GmbH has five locations in the north/west/east of Germany from where its operational activities are managed. In total, Vion Zucht- und Nutzvieh GmbH employs more than 100 people.
Local sourcing
Vion meets the increasing demand for regional meat through a decentralized network of slaughterhouses that mainly source their animals from those regions. Our goal is to buy animals within a radius of 200 kilometres from the slaughterhouse. That is a strategic choice that minimizes animal transport times.
The Business Unit Beef has a total of 11 production locations for cattle of which two are located in the Netherlands, eight in Germany and one in Belgium.
