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The Sustainability Manager is the Food Innovator of the Future!

The Sustainability Manager is the Food Innovator of the Future!

by Mary van Hoek-Hendriks | Nov 7, 2025 | Article, Free Stuff, Newsletter

This week, the Impact Award of the Healthy Innovation Awards (Gezonde Innovatie Awards) van Food Personality en FoodLog was presented. The first prize was received by the Sustainability Manager of retailer Lidl.  The similarities between her work as a sustainability...
Dutch Design Week 2025 – Where to go – Mary’s favourites

Dutch Design Week 2025 – Where to go – Mary’s favourites

by Mary van Hoek-Hendriks | Oct 24, 2025 | Article, Free Stuff

With only three days to go, I’m sharing my favourites of this year. It all started back in 2013 with a small ‘must-see’ list for students from HAS green academy, — those with an extraordinary interest in the future of food, innovation, design, and sustainability, to...
Mastering Food Innovation Festively Launched Among ‘The Crazy Ones’

Mastering Food Innovation Festively Launched Among ‘The Crazy Ones’

by Mary van Hoek-Hendriks | Sep 30, 2025 | Article, News, Newsletter

Rotterdam, Wednesday 24 September 2025 Today, the book Mastering Food Innovation was celebrated with a launch at the very place where innovation is literally in motion: Floating Farm Rotterdam. A select and colourful group of food innovators, entrepreneurs,...
Bouncing Ideas, Building Legacies: Meet the Design Fools

Bouncing Ideas, Building Legacies: Meet the Design Fools

by Mary van Hoek-Hendriks | Aug 28, 2025 | Article, Free Stuff

I absolutely love this photo! Let me take you behind the scenes of how it came to be. For years, I’ve been a fan of Foodmaker. I first met Lieven Vanlommel many years ago at an event where he spoke about the journey leading up to building Starmeal and Foodmaker. He...
Food Innovation Fun Tear-Off Calendar 2026 – Open for Order

Food Innovation Fun Tear-Off Calendar 2026 – Open for Order

by Mary van Hoek-Hendriks | Jul 16, 2025 | Article

For the second year in a row: the Food Innovation Fun Tear-Off Calendar! What started last year as a “I-don’t-have-the-right-structure-for-my-book-Mastering Food...
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