🎉 Celebrating 10 Years in Poland ! 🎉 What’s Cooking? is thrilled to mark its excellence in Ready Meals, continuously pioneering new varieties and investing in growth! What’s Cooking Polska started from a greenfield piece of land with a first production in 2014, building a reputation for delicious quality lasagne production in Central & Eastern Europe and selling in about 15 countries. To mark its 10th birthday, What’s Cooking Polska is announcing the intent to further accelerate and invest in growth of Ready Meals in Poland and beyond. 💚 We’re proud of our journey. Together, we celebrate our leadership in pasta-based Ready Meals and the successful launch of Come a casa® in Poland! Join us in celebrating this significant milestone! 🥳 #WhatsCooking #Anniversary #ReadyMeals #Sustainability #Milestone
About us
What’s Cooking? (previously known as Ter Beke Group) is a listed (EBR:WHATS) European Fresh Savoury Food Group headquartered in Belgium. All over Europe and beyond, we offer a wide range of high-quality and innovative savoury cold cuts and ready-meal food products as well as related services. Day by day, we make sustainable food second nature by increasing the world’s appetite for tasty, convenient meals, crafted with care both for people and planet. Our clients and consumers are always on our hungry minds while we prepare our food products, as is the well-being of the approximately 2,500 dedicated people at our headquarter, 12 industrial sites in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Poland, and the UK, and 7 sales offices. What’s Cooking? is our new name, but the company behind it has been around for 75 years. We are a listed family company on Euronext Brussels since 1986 (EBR:WHATS) and we delivered a 832-million-euro turnover in 2023. Feel free to visit our website www.whatscooking.group if you want to know What’s Cooking?
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http://www.whatscooking.group/en-GB
External link for What’s Cooking Group
- Industry
- Food and Beverage Manufacturing
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Lievegem, BE
- Type
- Public Company
- Specialties
- Chilled Lasagne, Chilled Pasta meals, Chilled Pizza, Cooked Ham, Paté, Dried sausage, Cooked sausage, Poultry, Slicing and packaging of processed meats, and Chilled Moussaka
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Beke 1
Lievegem, BE 9950, BE
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🌍 We’re incredibly proud to share that What's Cooking? has been awarded the EcoVadis Silver Medal for our sustainability achievements! 🏅 This recognition places us in the top 7% of companies worldwide, as rated by EcoVadis—a globally recognized platform that assesses sustainability across 4 key areas: ♻️ Environmental Impact 👥 Labor & Human Rights ⚖️ Ethics 🛒 Sustainable Procurement Practices This award reflects our commitment to leading the way in the food industry, where sustainable practices make a real difference. 💡 This accomplishment highlights the significant steps we have taken over the past few years and aligns perfectly with our purpose of "making sustainable food consumption second nature, day by day". 🌱 #Sustainability #EcoVadis #SilverMedal #WhatsCooking #YesWeCare #PioneeringChange #Proud
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🌱Green-GO!@What’s Cooking?🌱: Come a casa® driving sustainability in CEE "Crafting sustainability, day by day - Switching to Alu Topseal!" 🌍 As part of our Green-GO! initiative, we’re proud to share how we’re cooking up a better world. By switching all Come a casa® products sold in Central & Eastern Europe and produced in Opole, Poland, from Alu blister to Alu Topseal, we’ve taken a significant step forward. 📉 86.6% less plastic We now save 20,43 grams of plastic per 1Kg unit. 🐘 That’s the same weight as 9 African elephants saved annually in plastic foil! Day by day, we’re making sustainable food consumption second nature. Stay tuned for more Green-GO! updates as we continue crafting with care, protecting the planet, and providing good food for all. #Sustainability #Comeacasa #PlasticReduction #GreenGO #WhatsCooking
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🌍 At What’s Cooking?, we’re committed to protecting our planet, and this September, we’ve launched the “Win the War on Waste” initiative. 💪 Our dedicated ESG ambassadors have planned impactful challenges to inspire change across our teams. Last week, we kicked off with the “Rubbish Summers Are Over” litter collection challenge across our sites. Together, we rolled up our sleeves and made a real difference by cleaning up our surroundings, ensuring waste becomes a thing of the past. ♻️ Stay tuned for more exciting steps on our journey to a cleaner, greener future! #WhatsCooking #Sustainability #WinTheWarOnWaste #ProtectThePlanet
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At What’s Cooking? we are honored to have been able to create tasty inspirations for your amazing launch. Together with The Jamie Oliver Group, we’ve brought a shared vision to life: offering delicious easy-to-cook frozen ready meals ❄️that prioritize great taste 😋, choice with care for sustainability and quality. It’s been an exciting journey, and we can’t wait to see these products in the supermarket and discover the experience of customers and consumers! #WhatsCooking #food #JamieOliver #FoodInnovation #NewRangeLaunch #proud
Today the office is buzzing with excitement. After 18 months of hard work, we launched the first of our delicious new range of food products with the goal of elevating and invigorating the frozen and store cupboard aisles across supermarkets. It’s been a gargantuan team effort across all parts of the business. At the heart of it, Jamie and his food team have worked tirelessly - pouring 20 years of his cooking expertise, his sourcing standards, his infamous twists - into a range that will make taste buds tingle with delight. The beautiful eye-catching packaging has been designed by our talented in house art team; our nutritionists have made sure we stick to our 70% Nutrient Profile Model target across the entire range; our clear labelling sets a high bar and all of the products, as part of our company wide circular funding model, will directly contribute to the stellar work of our Ministry of Food Foundation. Rooted in his most popular recipes spanning Comfort Food, Naked Chef, Jamie’s Dinners, Jamie Cooks Italy and more, first off the ranks is our new frozen meal centre range. Jamie has always been a champion of the freezer and we knew we’d create meal time options that make consumers rethink their freezer expectations. Next level deliciousness from his Mighty Moussaka, Veggie Lasagne, Comforting Cottage Pie, Beef Bourguignon, Chicken Tikka Masala and more. Plus a frozen veg range filled with taste and goodness and finally, a frozen potato range that sets a new high in taste - chips cooked in beef fat, the ultimate mash, hasselback potatoes and garlic and rosemary roasted! Simple, easy and tasty. So why a frozen meal range? Isn’t Jamie a chef who wants to inspire us to cook more? Our desire to get Britain cooking hasn’t changed but we know that people are busy. It’s unrealistic to expect busy people to cook from scratch every night. These meal centres and frozen sides give high quality, high taste options from a trusted chef that’s now available for everybody. We’ve always believed in balance - you’ll see that across our restaurants and books. And with our new digital website filled with hundreds of recipes and hacks and the new Simply Jamie book crammed with simple, fast and gorgeous recipes, we are covering all the different gears for how people cook today. And there’s more to come. We’ve got 27 new storecupboard solutions across grains, pastes and meal pouches coming to major supermarkets later this year. We set out to do something really special. And I believe we have.
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🌱 Join us on our Green-GO! journey! 🌱 At What's Cooking?, sustainability is more than just a commitment—it's part of our DNA: Day by day, we make sustainable food consumption second nature by increasing the appetite for delicious, convenient food with care for both people and planet! Through our Green-GO! journey, we focus on making a positive impact across three key areas: 🌾 Ingredients – using more sustainable ingredients 📦 Packaging – innovating more eco-friendly convenient packs 🌍 Sourcing – reducing our planet footprint "Day by day, cooking up a better world" — it’s a way of living. 👉 Follow our Green-GO! journey with concrete proof points, as we turn our sustainability vision into reality. One meal at a time! #WhatsCooking #GreenGO #Sustainability #GoodFoodForAll
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🙏 Thank you, The Jamie Oliver Group ! At What’s Cooking? we are honored to have been able to create tasty inspirations for your amazing launch. Together, we’ve brought a shared vision to life: offering delicious easy-to-cook frozen ready meals ❄️that prioritize great taste 😋, choice with care for sustainability and quality. It’s been an exciting journey, and we can’t wait to see these products in the supermarket and discover the experience of customers and consumers! #WhatsCooking #food #JamieOliver #FoodInnovation #NewRangeLaunch #proud
Big news this week at The Jamie Oliver Group HQ 🎉 Two years, several rounds of research, heaps of recipe refinement and tastings, and a small but mighty team, all guided by a single vision — to bring joy to the Frozen aisle, celebrating all the inherent benefits of frozen food and building from Jamie’s love of the freezer over the last 20 years. And now the time has come! We are so proud to officially be launching our Jamie Oliver frozen food range: ❄️ inspired by Jamie’s decades of delicious recipes and cookbooks, but with ease and simplicity at its core ❄️ created to do what frozen does best — minimise food waste, provide clean labels, be affordable and accessible ❄️ made to address a whole spectrum of everyday cooking needs, from mighty meal centres and stunning sides to ridiculously tasty ready meals ❄️ all part of our belief that good food should give back, with every purchase contributing to our #MinistryofFoodFoundation mission of teaching 1 million people to cook. Thank you The Grocer for the great article 😍. We appreciate your support and loved hosting you. And a big shout out to our partner What’s Cooking Group. We couldn’t have done this without you and your shared vision and passion. #foodculture #foodforgood #brandpurpose #justaddjamie
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👉 Exciting times ahead 👈 🆕 What’s Cooking Deeside UK is excited to partner with 👨🍳 The Jamie Oliver Group to launch a brand-new meal concept in the UK ! The new Jamie Oliver Range features a variety of tasty and nutritious meals, all with Jamie’s signature twist. From comforting classics like Loaded Lasagne and Mighty Moussaka to bold flavors like Fragrant Chicken Tikka Masala and Slow & Low Beef Ragu. There’s something for everyone.😋 We are so excited to share these magnificent meals with you - they truly champion the power of frozen food ❄️and make for the perfect home-cooked solution without the faff 🙌. 🙏 Thank you to the Jamie Oliver team for having us and a special shout out to Bobby Oliver for cooking us up gorgeous big bowls of beef and lentil bolognese from his new cookbook! #WhatsCooking #food #JamieOliver #FoodInnovation #NewRangeLaunch #proud
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👷♀️ Back to work, back to safety! 👷♂️ At What’s Cooking?, our internal Safety Week was a great reminder that safety starts with each of us. Because at the end of the day, we have one goal: “All going home safely to our loved ones". 👨👩👧👦 More than ever, we’re doubling down on our commitment to a safer workplace for all. Safety isn’t just a priority - it’s part of our culture. Whether it’s preventing slips, handling equipment, or managing chemicals, we all play a part in looking out for each other. Across all our factories 🏭 , offices 🏢 , and teams, engaged employees came together to talk about safety. ✅ At What’s Cooking?, we take care! SEE, SAY, STOP! is our motto. Together 💪, we ensure our workplace is a SAFE place, day by day. #SafetyWeek #WhatsCooking #WorkplaceSafety #Teamwork #CultureOfCare
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Together with all our employees and stakeholders a lot of proud 🙌 at What's Cooking? Our half-year results confirm progress 💚 in both strategic business units 👌 Savoury and Ready Meals despite continued cost inflation: 🍃 An increase in half-year sales from EUR 413 million to EUR 429 million 🍃 Volumes up again in Ready Meals and down slightly in Savoury - combined volumes up 4% compared to the first half of 2023 🍃 Strategic actions continue to pay off: focus on sustainability, targeted capex investments, operational focus programs 🍃 EBITDA increases from EUR 20 million in the first half of 2023 to EUR 31 million in the first half of 2024 🍃 net income is EUR 10 million in the first half of 2024 compared to EUR 2 million in the first half of last year 🍃 Net debt further decreases to EUR 33 million (down from EUR 61 million at the end of 2023) Day by day we make sustainable food second nature! AND YES WE CARE 🌍 by further improving our sustainability footprint, operational performance and more tasty innovative products 😋 to come. https://lnkd.in/eiMVenyu #WhatsCooking #strategy #food #sustainability #proud #YesWeCare
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