The Group Ceuster

About The Group Ceuster

Group De Ceuster is a family-owned Belgian group active in plant care, animal care, and biosciences. Its businesses serve professionals in horticulture, landscaping, agriculture, the feed industry, and related technical markets, with activities spanning product development, production, distribution, and project implementation.

The group positions itself around long-term customer relationships, teamwork, and service. It presents itself as an international company with a strong ecological foundation, combining practical market knowledge with in-house research and a focus on solutions that are adapted to local conditions and customer needs.

Core Values

• Customer focus: The group emphasizes close, loyal customer relationships and uses customer input to inspire new products, new ideas, and market development.
• Teamwork: Its culture is built around working “for, with, and around” one another, with collaboration and collegiality presented as essential to success.
• Service orientation: Employees are expected to bring enthusiasm, reliability, and a strong commitment to helping customers and colleagues.
• Sustainability: Environmental responsibility is embedded across sourcing, production, and logistics, including reuse of residual materials, low-CO2 processes, and recyclability.
• Continuous improvement: The company promotes a mindset of going for great, staying open-minded, and continuously improving products, processes, and service.

Unique Aspects

• Three-business-unit structure: GroupDC combines plant care, animal care, and biosciences under one family-owned group, allowing it to cover both commercial products and research-driven innovation.
• International footprint: Its plant-care activities are supported by subsidiaries in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Austria, alongside distributor partnerships in many other countries.
• Local adaptation in animal care: Animal nutrition solutions are tailored to local raw materials, climate conditions, financial resources, and infrastructure, with a stated strong focus on developing countries.
• In-house bioscience capability: The group operates its own research center, Scientia Terrae, and works with academic partners to turn fundamental science into practical applications.
• Family-business culture: The company explicitly anchors its identity in a long-standing family ethos and a set of five core qualities that spell GROUP.