Kaprijke biscuit factory of Lotus Bakeries in Lembeke blooms in abundance. With a growth of six percent will be 2018 by the CEO Jan Boone is a really top year called. For the first time was in Lembeke, the threshold of 50 million cookies removed. After the summer, opens in America in a new factory, and then it will be there for the first time in history, caramelized outside Gosport.
The factory in Lembeke in 2018 for a new record made. “For the first time was in our factory in Lembeke, the threshold of 50 million kilograms of production exceeded”, says CEO Jan Boone at the presentation of the results for the year 2018. “Two years ago, it was in Lembeke, a new production hall into operation. That is already the third production hall at our thuissite. Last year, in our latest production, a second production line started up, and therefore roles, more and more speculoosjes of the band. Also the construction of new offices in Gosport is currently perfectly on schedule. The old office buildings were more than fifty years old, and were really due for replacement. In the second half of this year, will the new offices be put into use.”
America
Gosport is still the home base for almost all speculoosjes worldwide over the counter go. Each year more are sold, is good news for the more than 500 workers and employees who, every day in the moederfabriek in Lembeke. The factory in Lembeke remains the international headquarters of the group, but yet there will be, from this year elsewhere in the world speculooskoekjes be made. “In the second part of this year, a new Biscoff factory in The United States,” says Jan Boone. “Biscoff is our international name for caramelized biscuits. It is a contraction of ‘biscuit’ and ‘coffee’. The factory in North Carolina is currently built. In the second part of this year will be the U.s. factory effectively be put into use. From then on, it will be there for the first time in the history of caramelized biscuits made out of Lembeke, and even in a different continent. The USA is since 2017, our largest market has become for caramelized biscuits. Logical that there is also a private factory.”
