Jessica van Dam transformed her fashion store in Zevenbergen into Koffiebar Durfd after a changing retail market. With the help of finance advisor Leon Westmaas and Briqwise, she overcame setbacks such as the pandemic. This support led to sustainable growth and an expansion of its catering activities.

To be able to do business successfully in the hospitality industry, a number of ingredients are necessary. A good team, an appealing concept, an intended property, the market and solid trust. If you have all that but no funding, you won't get your business off the ground. In this article, we take you into the honest story of hospitality entrepreneur Berry ten Bergen. In 6 months, together with his wife and team, he opened the Burgundian eatery De Basiliek in Middelburg.

Six years ago I started my own skin therapy practice. We were doing well – growing fast and needing extra space. So we started looking to buy a business premises with more room and as a pension provision.