DeliBarn
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- Wommelgem, Belgium
- Industries
- Food ingredients & products, Food safety & quality, Supply chain monitoring & traceability, Sustainable packaging & plastic alternatives, Shortening supply chain
- Domains
- Animal based primary products, Cow / beef, Fish, Pig / pork, Processed food products, Confectionery & snacks, Meat & poultry products
- Technologies
- Physical modification, Processing
About DeliBarn
DeliBarn is a Benelux-based food company focused on quality charcuterie and related meat products. The company traces its roots back to 1948, when Francies Coopman founded Ter Beke as a small charcuterie business. Today, DeliBarn positions itself as a craft-driven, tradition-based partner for retailers and food customers, combining expertise, taste, and convenience in every slice.
The company serves retail and other food-industry customers with products and services built around service slicing, packaging, and category support. Its website emphasizes that it is not just a supplier, but a partner that helps customers meet consumer expectations with consistent quality, food safety, and efficient execution across Belgium and the Netherlands.
Core Values
- Craftsmanship: DeliBarn presents craftsmanship as the foundation of everything it does, from recipe preparation to slicing and packaging.
- Excellence: The company describes excellence as a mindset rather than an outcome, with employee skill and ownership central to delivery.
- Co-creation: DeliBarn stresses working closely with customers, combining its operational know-how with the customer’s market knowledge.
- Responsibility: Food safety is central, and the company extends responsibility to people, animal welfare, and the planet.
- Sustainability: Sustainability is framed as a natural way of growing and working, including packaging choices and sourcing decisions that balance impact and practicality.
Unique Aspects
- Deep Benelux heritage: The company’s story runs from Francies Coopman’s 1948 founding of Ter Beke to today’s DeliBarn brand, giving it more than 75 years of continuity in charcuterie.
- Service slicing expertise: DeliBarn highlights service slicing as a defining capability, introduced in 1996 and later scaled through acquisitions to become one of Europe’s largest service slicers.
- Retail-focused packaging innovation: The company develops packaging in-house and with customers, aiming to reduce waste, improve shelf impact, and keep food safety and efficiency in balance.
- Benelux footprint: DeliBarn operates across Belgium and the Netherlands with multiple industrial sites, giving it broad regional reach for retail supply.
- Operational scale and investment: Known news reports that the company invested more than five million euros in new high-capacity slicing machines and refocused its commercial strategy on core segments.
- Ownership and market position: Known news describes DeliBarn as an autonomous market leader in quality meat products in the Benelux, with a headquarters in Lievegem and around 1,500 employees.