CNC U.A.

Thanks to the cooperation CNC, the Dutch cultivation of mushrooms takes up the fourth position on the world list of mushroom producing countries, after China, the USA, and Poland. CNC was founded in 1953 as an initiative of 3 mushroom farmers who wanted to buy raw materials centrally and to sell mushrooms collectively. Throughout the years CNC has grown into a cooperation of which nearly all Dutch mushroom growers are a member.

The opening of a large composting company in the middle of the nineteen sixties, which lifted the cultivation of mushrooms to a higher level, was an important milestone in the history of CNC. This composting company has grown into the ultra-modern company of CNC Grondstoffen of today. Furthermore, from the mid nineteen seventies onwards, CNC has taken over a number of mushroom processing companies and – together with Lutèce – has acquired a leading position on the European preserved food market for mushrooms.

What makes CNC unique up till today in Europe is that CNC is both a purchasing cooperation for raw materials and a marketing cooperation for mushrooms. This makes CNC into a real chain player, making a positive contribution on several fronts to the enforcement of the competitive position of the Dutch mushroom growers.