Since 2010 two of his children, Jeannette and Johan Matze, run the company. The trade expertise and knowledge of preserved food products, confectionary, beverages, household goods and toiletries has been carried on to the fourth generation.
Since 1899 the Matze family was involved in the “door-to-door” trade in its home village Hazerswoude, close to the city of Leiden. Back then a trolley was used to sell groceries from door to door to the villagers. In 1906 Adam Arie Matze started a grocery shop.
His son, Han Matze, took over the business and moved to Leiden where he opened a second grocery store and – after the second world war – a factory which produced peanut butter and semolina pudding. Later he started a wholesale import business in tea, dried fruit products and colonial food stuff.§
In turn his son, Arie Matze, continued the wholesale business in 1969, and later moved to Waddinxveen, where we were located until the end of 2022. Arie was the first generation which started exporting to the neighbouring countries Belgium, Luxemburg, France and Germany. After more than 40 years he became a well-known personality in the food industry with extended trade skills and a large business network.
