prinsen berning active nutrition

About us

Prinsen Berning is Europe’s leading one-stop-shop supplier of Active Nutrition Bars & Powders. We proudly produce bars and powder products at the highest quality level for market leading brands and private label, with our products travelling the globe. 

About the companies

Prinsen Berning consists of Koninklijke Prinsen B.V. & Gustav Berning GmbH & Co. KG.

Koninklijke Prinsen B.V. (NL), since 1924, has been a turnkey manufacturer of powdered nutritional products and supplies to many renowned retailers and brand owners across the globe. Our wide range of solutions are developed and produced in a newly built, modern, highly-efficient production facility in Helmond, the Netherlands.

Gustav Berning GmbH & Co. KG (D) was founded in 1915 and has become one of the leading players in Europe in the production of high-quality protein bars. We produce hundreds of millions of bars per year with state-of-the-art machines.

Journey Towards Success

prinsen berning management team

Management team

Our management team consists of experienced professionals who bring a lot of knowledge and expertise to our company.

Dirk Bernhard - COO Berning

Dirk joined Prinsen Berning beginning of 2019 and has many years of experience in various plant management functions at Kraft Foods / Mondelez and as managing director in the baby food industry.

Christiaan van Tilburg - CFO

Christiaan joined Prinsen Berning early 2024 after many years of experience in finance roles at Unilever and Heinz and as CFO of Dutch frozen snack producer Van Geloven.

Sebastiaan van den Berg - CEO

Sebastiaan joined Prinsen Berning mid 2018 and brings along an extensive management experience in FMCG companies like Danone and Friesland Campina where he last held an executive board position.

Henrico Drent – CCO

Henrico has a long history in developing and growing fast moving consumer brands. In the past he worked with L‘Oréal, but also Unilever, where he has been the Managing Director for Unilever Denmark. Henrico joined Prinsen Berning in November 2018.

Erik van Nunen – COO Prinsen

Erik has a history of over 20 years of experience within production and supply chain in different operation management positions at Verkade, Cérélia Netherlands, Peijnenburg and FrieslandCampina Ingredients and joined Prinsen Berning in January 2024.

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