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Zendijk's
Vleeswaren en Conservenfabriek
B.V.
Zendijk's Vleeswaren en
Conservenfabriek B.V. was a Dutch company
based at Olst, between Deventer and
Zwolle, which was acquired by Homburg
before Lyons acquired Homburg in 1972.
Olst was previously one of the centers of
the Dutch meat industry and Vleeswaren
is the Dutch word for meat products while
Conservenfabriek means canning company.
The title implies therefore that it was a
meat canning company and this continued to
operate after the Lyons acquisition but
Olst's municipality archives record that
the factories were closed in 1974. Until
this time it had traded in its own right
and was listed at Companies House,
Cardiff, as a subsidiary company of Lyons.
The name Zendijk is pronounced Zan-dike
with the 'a' as in can.
The Homburg Group of
companies, based at Cuyk in the south-east
of the Netherlands, was euphemistically
known as 'the mausoleum of the Dutch meat
industry' because they had acquired an
enormous number of small and medium seized
companies in this field. The rudiments of
those acquisitions were reflected on
Homburg's payroll and included the names
of Bud and Tony Linthorst from Koninklijke
Vleeswarenfabrieken Linthorst (at Wilp),
Louis de Wijze (a survivor of Auschwitz
who wrote a book in English titled 'Only
My Life - A Survivor's Story') from De
Wijze, Harry Janssen from Janssen B.V. and
several more. Added to these were a large
number of Homburgs including Simon Homburg
and his sons Willem (Wim) and Cornelius
(Cees).
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