Mission statement & values
Taking action for future generations
Feeding the world is our business. Farmers around the world rely on Big Dutchman. Because our high-tech farming solutions for protein and plants make them successful. As a family business, we think about and take action for further generations – and promote animal-friendly and sustainable solutions as an integral part of what we offer.
Sustainability
We make Big Dutchman sustainable and even better
We at Big Dutchman are more than 3100 colleagues. We connect 45 nations on seven continents. We live diversity. We are all different. And yet we all have the same goal: to leave behind a world that is worth living in for future generations. To this end, we develop ideas and strategies on how we can make Big Dutchman even better.
Career
Big Dutchman – your employer
In more than 150 countries and across five continents, Big Dutchman is a trademark for lasting quality, reliable service and unsurpassed know-how. Thanks to the tireless dedication of 3,200 employees worldwide, we are considered the world market leader. Big Dutchman offers intriguing tasks and demanding challenges in trend-setting projects for experts, graduates, trainees and interns alike.
Management
Setting a good example
As a family business, Big Dutchman is committed to thinking about and taking action for future generations. For decades, the names Josef and Bernd Meerpohl have been standing for this claim, because entrepreneurship always meant and means more to them than simply economic growth. The experienced management team continues this positive corporate culture.
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History
How a clever idea shaped a world market leader
Jack and Dick DeWitt revolutionised poultry management when they launched the first automatic poultry feeder in 1938. Twenty years later, they hired a farmer from Calveslage named Josef Meerpohl as an agent for Northern Germany – a good decision, as it turned out over the next decades.