Dik & Schil
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Industries
- Food ingredients & products, Waste efficiency, Direct to consumer, Ingredient sourcing, Supply chain monitoring & traceability
- Domains
- Beverages, Processed food products, Ingredients, Spent grain (brewers / distillers), Plant based primary products, Fruit pits and peels, Fruit
- Technologies
- Food-waste technology, Extraction, Circular & resource technologies, Processing
About Dik & Schil
Full Circle, formerly Dik & Schil, is a Dutch drinks company focused on turning food and beverage side streams into premium alcoholic products. It started with a simple mission: make drinks from coffee grounds and orange peels that could go back to the bar and help reduce food waste. Over time, the company expanded beyond those original ingredients and now says it works with seven products across multiple countries.
The company positions itself as a circular alternative for drinks, combining sustainability with taste and craftsmanship. Its website emphasizes that it wants to make the best product for both the customer and the world, with continuous attention to improving flavor and reducing its own impact. It also highlights hand-made production and a refreshed international brand identity under the Full Circle name.
Core Values
- Sustainability first: The company repeatedly states that sustainability is always the top priority and that its mission is to reduce food waste.
- Circularity: Its products are built around giving discarded or surplus ingredients a second life, turning side streams into drinks.
- Quality and taste: The brand stresses that the drinks are not only sustainable but also delicious, with ongoing focus on improving flavor alongside impact.
- Craftsmanship: Production is described as hand-made, with attention to traditional methods and careful preparation.
- International ambition: The rebrand to Full Circle reflects a desire to make the mission understandable beyond the Netherlands and grow impact in more countries.
Unique Aspects
- Rebrand from Dik & Schil to Full Circle: The company changed its name and visual identity to better reflect a broader product range and to work internationally, while keeping the same mission and team.
- Circular ingredient sourcing: Its drinks are built from hospitality leftovers and other side streams such as orange peels, coffee grounds, rejected fruit, shiso leaves, and cocktail by-products.
- Named supplier collaboration: The dossier explicitly mentions Koppert Cress as a source of restroom shiso leaves and other plant material used in products.
- Hand-made production: Each bottle is described as hand-made, which the company presents as part of its quality promise.
- Multi-country presence: The company says it now sells in multiple countries, indicating a broader reach than its original local bar-focused concept.