ORFC 2026 8 – 9 Jan
The Food Hub is a Belgian cooperative wholesaler that works with small-scale, organic producers from Southern Europe. They are a multi-stakeholder coop, so both suppliers (farmers) and customers (shops) are shareholders. In a traditional model, those two have conflicting interests, but The Food Hub have facilitated a model to divide profits by working with a ristorno policy: this shares profits based on the associate’s transactions with the cooperative. But how do you create a fair division between the different shareholders? This promises to be an interesting discussion!