Professional catering at your service Bulgaria-based Liberty Food Services offers a diversified portfolio of products and services that satisfy demanding customers not just in its native country but in several European countries. Mr Vincent Rombaut, company owner and Managing Director who founded the business in 1999, talks about its ambitious plans for future growth.
“WE
started with one contract for a major manufacturer but soon became aware that to secure a growing business we needed to develop the Sofia market and open a small kitchen in the capital. At that time we started to participate in tenders for government contracts; soon we won several tenders for the hospital sector, which was the breaking point and the business really took off,” Mr Rombaut begins. “As the Sofia market grew, we realised that we needed bigger premises. In 2010, we embarked on a major investment that resulted in opening the most technologically advanced production unit in the entire Balkans. The kitchen facility does not only provide meal services throughout 118 Industry Europe
Bulgaria but has the capacity to produce food products under private labels for export. As such, Liberty Food Services has become an international player selling products from Bulgarian soil.”
Investing in growth
Mr Rombaut explains that the new production facility opened up more opportunities, as well as initiating requests from supermarkets, and the company started to diversify into ready-meal production. Today, the company operates several production units. “Our main facility is in Sofia, with over €2 million invested in the unit. In Varna we have another production facility about half the size worth over
