Klium’s special customers
Our customers make the most wonderful things. Today we take a look at Bijenhotelkopen.nl, a sheltered workplace with a green vision and a very special product: professional bee hotels.
Professional? Are there any amateur bee hotels? Apparently. But in addition to quality, “professional” also refers to the clientele, which is mainly B2B, such as municipalities, companies, and nature organizations. The sale is done via Bijenhotelkopen.nl. On this website, you will also find extensive information about the company and the bee hotels.
Bianca Pouw, owner of Bijenhotelkopen.nl: “Bijenhotelkopen.nl arose from the desire to do more social, sustainable, and local business. Why get containers with stuff from China, while you can also make these products in the Netherlands or Belgium? Furthermore, we want to offer special employees who cannot (yet) make it through the labor market without a helping hand the opportunity to gain work experience through work-learning and work-language programs, so that we can get them out of benefits and guide them to a paid job. We do not receive any subsidy but finance the sheltered workshop with the sale of our professional bee hotels.”
Bijenhotelkopen.nl also uses its unique expertise for projects. Such as the long-term cooperation with BND / Greenyard Bree, a cooperative canning factory in which growers from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany are united. Bijenhotelkopen.nl placed more than 50 bee hotels and educational information boards at the growers to install a BND bee ribbon throughout the border region.
