decided to enter the meat industry. Therefore, the ZTLO additionally founded the Bestmeat Company N.V. and brought it together with Sobel into the new holding company Best Agrifund N.V.

The first takeover in the meat industry was the leading German meat company Moksel in early 2003. Following, the company took over the leading Dutch meat company Dumeco in mid-2003, and Norddeutsche Fleischzentrale (NFZ, Nordfleisch) in the end of 2003. In 2004, Hendrix Meat was bought from Nutreco Holding N.V. and in 2005 the German company Südfleisch