Ronico is the major winner of the 2026 Horticultural Entrepreneur Award. This was announced om 11 March 2026 by minister Silvio Erkens for Food Security, Fisheries and Horticulture during the award ceremony at Keukenhof. It was the 40th time this prestigious award has been presented to a horticultural entrepreneur. Broekpolder 2040 won the Theme Prize for Cooperation & Cohesion. They received the award from Meindert Stolk, Deputy for Economy and Innovation of the Province of South Holland.

Read more: Ronico wins the 40th Horticultural Entrepreneur Award

Kreling Chrysanten is the big winner of the 2025 Horticulture Entrepreneur Award. Brothers Koen (30) and Arné (25) Kreling, their brother-in-law Henry Satter (31), uncle Gijbert, and father Jan from Bruchem in Gelderland have earned the title of the Netherlands’ best horticultural entrepreneurs this year.

The Theme Award for ‘Future-Proof Technologies’ was won by CE-Line from Emmeloord. Simon Meijer’s company enables growers to perform real-time laboratory analyses of nutrient levels in irrigation and drainage water—an important innovation for horticulture with the potential for major impact beyond the sector as well.

Read more: Kreling Chrysanten wins Horticultural Entrepeneur Award 2025

On Tuesday 16 January 2024, the finalists for the Horticulture Entrepreneur Award 2024 were announced.

Read more: Nominees for the Horticulture Entrepreneur Award 2024 announced

Theelers wins the theme prize 'New crops, new applications'.

Read more: Theelers wins Theme Prize 2023

Van der Avoird Trayplant is the winner of the Horticulture Entrepreneur Prize 2023, the unique prize for innovative entrepreneurship in the horticulture sector. 

Read more: Van der Avoird Trayplant wins Horticulture Entrepreneur Prize 2023