Past ventures

1989

CoZet Info Systems

An early technology venture and one of the first steps towards founding ZEP Holding. It laid foundations for later activity in IT and technology.

1993

Green Peas

A trade venture focused on importing green beans from China. An early chapter in the broader ZEP story.

1994

Delft Professional Imaging (DPI)

A professional imaging business from the mid-1990s. According to the archive, it was sold to Eric, Hank and Sander in 2001.

1996

Xpert Adressenbeer

A mid-1990s venture later sold. The archive records a sale in 1999 to Ger Duifhuizen.

1997

V3 Redirect Services

An internet services venture from the late 1990s. Sold in 1999 to FortuneCity (archive spelling: Fotunecity).

1998

Dutch Development → OGH

Dutch Development, later recorded as having evolved into OGH. Part of the late-1990s development of the group’s activities.

1998

Faxtor Securities

A securities-related venture from 1998. The archive notes a sale to IMC in 2001.

1998

PowerDNS

Innovative DNS software developed with Bert Hubert. Later sold to Bert, who sold it on to OX.

1999

Trilab Technology

A technology venture that, according to the archive, merged with IEX Group NV.

2000

Free Media Group

Media holdings including IEX, FHM, DePers.nl and Esquire. The archive records that the group evolved into IEX Group NV.

2009

easyHotel Benelux

Hospitality activity in the Benelux under the easyHotel name. The archive records a sale to eH in 2022.

2012

Sabon

A venture that, in the archive’s own words, ended badly — bankrupt as of 2017. Kept here as a factual record.