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Velopa, part of the CROWD group, has once again won the tender from ProRail for 2-tier bicycle parking solutions. For the third time in a row, Velopa is allowed to provide bicycle parking solutions for ProRail. Velopa has registered with a completely redeveloped product and based on product quality, inventiveness as well as on topics […]

Since its inception, Creators of the Outside World (CROWD), has strived to make a conscious contribution to the outside public living environment. Thourgh it’s mission, to encourage people to go outside, and its vision, to be the leading group in street furniture, public sheltering, and bicycle parking infrastructure with a key focus on Circularity and […]

Over a million users have already used the innovative size.me scanners available in CCC and eobuwie.pl stores and in the eobuwie application to scan their feet! Thanks to the esize.me service, which has been operating for 1.5 years, the CCC Group now has the largest database of this type in #Poland and the world. Women […]

For a couple of months, the SafeSize team has been working on a pilot project with Xebio, one of the largest sports retailers in Japan. End of November 15 SC7s scanners were shipped and mid-December a delegation of the SafeSize team travelled to Japan to kick-off the pilot phase with Xebio Sports. The main objective […]

Renewi plc (LSE: RWI) is pleased to announce that it has reached a binding agreement to sell its Canadian operations (“Renewi Canada”) to Convent Capital (“Convent”), an independent, sustainability-focused, Dutch investment firm based in Amsterdam, for an enterprise value of up to CAD 107.5m (approximately €72m) (the “Transaction”). Upon completion, Renewi will receive initial cash […]

The Dutch Manufacturing Company (Dumaco) takes over a metal company for the fourth time in a short time. This time it concerns Blokland Metaalbewerking in Hardinxveld-Giessendam, a company with just under a hundred employees. Dumaco claims to be the largest specialist in sheet metal working in the Benelux. With the latest purchase, it hopes to […]

Amsterdam-based ‘footwear recommendation technology’ (I too had to do a double take) startup SafeSize has raised €10 million in a Series B round of funding. The fresh cash comes from prior backers 3TS Capital Partners and Convent Capital, as well as additional but unnamed ‘strategic investors’. What SafeSize does is essentially help online and offline […]

Cirex, a company from Twente that supplies steel components to car manufacturers such as BMW and Mercedes, has been taken over by a foreign strategic party. The American Form Technologies bought all shares in the Dutch manufacturing company on Friday. Cirex was once part of Philips Physics Laboratory. It is one of the largest steel […]