With more than 5,000 customers in Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, Quality Guard (www.qualityguard.com) offers a leading SaaS platform that fully digitalizes and automates the management of HACCP, food safety, and allergens. The platform supports a wide range of customers — from artisanal fresh food shops to large-scale kitchens — in complying with increasingly stringent regulations and helps to significantly reduce the administrative burden imposed by national food safety authorities.
Quality Guard, founded and led by Wim and Achile Van Gierdegom, has a unique database of validated nutritional and allergen data for raw materials. It integrates with IoT-enabled hardware and offers full-service compliance support, giving foodservice and food retail professionals confidence that regulatory requirements are handled reliably, efficiently and without distraction from their core business.
With Gimv’s support, Quality Guard is set to accelerate its growth. The team will strengthen its commercial operations to drive broader adoption of digital compliance tools, expand in key regions, enhance customer value and pursue strategic acquisitions to consolidate a fragmented market and build a strong European footprint.
The Van Gierdegom family will remain the majority shareholder in Quality Guard, while Gimv joins as a strategic minority partner. Financial details of the transaction will not be disclosed.