Colruyt

Belguim
80 million eggs per year
296,000 hens benefited per year

Colruyt is one of Belgium’s largest retailers with over 190 stores and supermarkets including 3 organic supermarkets. Colruyt aims to enable clients to shop at the lowest prices. They are pioneering discount shopping with clear social and ecological ethics. Colruyt is one of several major Belgium retailers who are raising their standards for animal welfare. Colruyt is joined by several other major retailers in taking all caged eggs off Belgian supermarket shelves.

Visit the Colruyt website at www.colruyt.be.

"It is a deliberate choice of Colruyt to stop the sale of cage eggs. It has to do with quality. Quality from producer to consumer is very important. Quality means sustainable enterprise, with attention for the environment, for humans and for animals.

"We are glad to have undertaken this step. It gives a good feeling to our customers and ourselves as we can see that our sales are going well too."

Jan Prinsen, Director of Fresh Produce