Jamael Food Group
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- Driel, Netherlands
- Industries
- Alternative proteins, Food ingredients & products, Food safety & quality, Shortening supply chain, Supply chain monitoring & traceability
- Domains
- Plant based primary products, Beans, Beet, Cabbages, Carrots, Chickpeas, Faba beans, Fungi
- Technologies
- Smart & digital, Platform technology
About Jamael Food Group
Jamael N.V. is a Netherlands-based company focused on making food systems more sustainable and fair. Its website presents the group as having two main arms: a Food Group and a Technology Group, both aimed at developing, implementing, and scaling concepts that support a healthy and sustainable global food supply network.
The company says it invests in food companies, technology companies, start-ups, and multi-stakeholder initiatives that contribute to this mission. It positions technology as an enabler of better food production and consumption, with an emphasis on reducing environmental impact while helping feed a growing population.
Jamael also highlights transparency, collaboration, and fairness across the supply chain, and it links its work to initiatives that support local communities and improve livelihoods.
Core Values
- Sustainability: Jamael consistently frames its mission around reducing environmental impact and building a more sustainable food system.
- Fairness: The company emphasizes fair trade, fairer supply chains, and better outcomes for people involved in food production.
- Transparency: Jamael highlights transparency as essential to enforcing sustainability standards and improving trust across the chain.
- Collaboration: The group stresses working with suppliers, customers, local communities, and partners to create change.
- Health: Its vision includes access to healthy food, and its initiatives and investments are tied to nutritious food and community wellbeing.
Unique Aspects
- Dual food-and-technology structure: Jamael is organized into both a Food Group and a Technology Group, reflecting a strategy that combines operating businesses with enabling technologies.
- End-to-end supply-chain focus: The company explicitly promotes transparency from land to customer, including short-chain collaboration and traceability-oriented initiatives.
- Organic and sustainability orientation: Its food activities are described as strongly focused on organic production and on helping customers make more sustainable choices.
- Welfare fund with international projects: The Jamael Welfare Fund supports livelihood-improving projects in the Netherlands, Tanzania, and Brazil, with local partnerships and community-based themes.