At our head office in Ridderkerk and in our field service teams, nearly 700 people are employed. What is less well known is that a little further away, at Confed in Dordrecht, more than 120 people are also working with great dedication on our products. These are people who, due to a physical or mental disability, have a distance to the labour market. Under the guidance of a team leader, they carry out the pre-production for a number of components used in our taps.

“I was there recently to hand out drinking bottles as a small gift,” says Michiel van Veen, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Quooker. “And, as every time, I was once again touched by the dedication of the people there. I told them that as well. I had brought a clock and showed them the back of it. Look, I said, all those little gears, that’s you. You make sure the hands on the front of the clock show the correct time. Thanks in part to you, we can all create a product we are incredibly proud of.”