Pins matching place:Netherlands

Unilever's Birds Eye Wall's introduced Solero in the UK in mid-1994, ice cream inside a soft fruit-sorbet coating, which reached the rest of Europe from March 1995; Solero Exotic is 98 kcal per lolly.

A greenhouse restaurant with a daily menu built around its gardens’ harvest.

The board of Airbus parent EADS, meeting in Amsterdam, gave Airbus the go-ahead on 1 December 2006 to launch the A350 XWB family, a clean-sheet rival to the Boeing 787 with entry into service planned for 2013. Funding was to come mainly from company cash flow and the Power8 savings plan.

Dutch shipbuilder IHC Merwede delivered the Oleg Strashnov, a 183-metre DP3 crane vessel able to lift 5,000 tonnes, to Seaway Heavy Lifting on 1 April 2011. The ship went on to become one of the most powerful monohull crane vessels used in offshore construction.

Rotterdam's man-made Maasvlakte 2 extension, built to keep Europe's largest port ahead of rising container traffic, officially opened for shipping on 22 May 2013.

Contemporary Dutch cooking beside the Rijksmuseum, rooted in local ingredients.

Sidney Schutte’s tasting menus at the Waldorf Astoria on the Herengracht.

Google reports its Eemshaven data centre opened in December 2016.

Google reports its first Middenmeer data centre opened in 2020.

Aldi Nederland told about 150 office staff, warehouse workers and drivers in Best that their distribution centre, judged not future-proof, would close at the end of 2021, with its stores moving to Culemborg, Roermond and Roosendaal.

Airbus announced with its half-year results on 29 July 2021 that its board had approved development of an A350 freighter derivative, targeting entry into service in 2025 with 20% less fuel burn than twin-engine freighters.

Aldi Netherlands opened Aldi Shop & Go, a 370 m2 app-only store in central Utrecht where Trigo's ceiling cameras and shelf sensors let shoppers take goods and walk out, paying automatically - the Aldi Nord group's first checkout-free test store.

The Levvel consortium finished reinforcing the 32-kilometre Afsluitdijk sea wall with tens of thousands of custom concrete blocks so it can withstand a one-in-10,000-year storm.

Google reports the Winschoten data centre opened in 2025.

At their first summit in the Netherlands, NATO's 32 allies committed to spend 5% of GDP a year on defence and security by 2035, at least 3.5% of it on core defence, and reaffirmed their 'ironclad' Article 5 commitment.

Alo Yoga's first store in the Netherlands, a 185 m² shop on Wolvenstraat in Amsterdam's Nine Streets, ahead of a 650 m² flagship on P.C. Hooftstraat.

On 8 July 2025 the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani for the crime against humanity of persecuting women and girls on gender grounds.

Routine checks after new equipment went into a line at Nestlé's Dutch infant-formula plant found traces of the toxin cereulide, so Nestlé recalled every batch made since - 25 batches, including NAN formula, in 16 European countries.

Microsoft planted the first trees for a planned Plot B expansion on February 17, 2026. The source says landscaping began before construction; this pin represents the expansion.

Amazon signed a definitive agreement to buy DuckLabs, the bootstrapped Amsterdam team of more than 30 that builds the open-source DuckDB analytics database. DuckDB itself stays free under the MIT license and the independent DuckDB Foundation.

Magnum's UK ice cream pints are renamed Magnum Crackables, adding a pistachio flavour to Classic and Salted Caramel at £4.95 RRP for a 440 ml tub, rolling out through September 2026.

The District Court of Gelderland in Arnhem ruled that Lidl's sandals copy the copyrighted footbed design of Birkenstock's Arizona, Madrid, Gizeh, Boston and Florida and ordered Lidl to stop selling them in the Netherlands on pain of EUR 5,000 a day.

The 194.9-metre, 19,235-gross-ton research and expedition yacht built by Vard for Kjell Inge Røkke is finishing her outfitting at Damen in Vlissingen, with delivery expected in the fourth quarter of 2026.

A neighborhood restaurant serving a three-course menu inspired by family recipes and local comfort food.

A Dutch roadmap targets a non-nuclear test facility by 2027, the Thorizon Pioneer demonstrator at Petten by 2028 and the 100 MWe Thorizon One in Zeeland by 2034.