{"id":20725,"date":"2023-01-23T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/?p=20725"},"modified":"2023-01-23T00:28:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T00:28:53","slug":"al-maya-launches-netherlands-food-week-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/01\/23\/al-maya-launches-netherlands-food-week-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Maya launches \u2018Netherlands Food Week\u2019 in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">UAE-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2022\/08\/18\/al-maya-group-acquires-majority-stake-of-e-commerce-platform-conektr\/\">Al Maya<\/a> Supermarket chain has kickstarted its \u2018Netherlands Food Week\u2019 that will run for three weeks at select stores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.almaya.ae\/supermarket.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Maya<\/a> Group&#8217;s director and partner, Kamal Vachani, said: \u201cWe are very excited to announce the Netherlands Food Week at Al Maya Supermarkets in Dubai. We hope this week will be a huge success attracting Dutch people among other nationalities.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mr Vachani said that products like capsicum, lettuce, tomato, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, parsnip, chicory, leeks, oyster and portobello mushroom shipped from Netherlands will be available in the supermarkets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ambassador of the Netherlands to the UAE Lody Embrechts, who inaugurated the \u2018Netherlands Food Week\u2019, said: \u201cOur Dutch food culture is hundreds of years old; it is in our DNA. We are innovative. We drain our land to grow food, make it available to everyone around us and run on food economies. Food has always been important to the Netherlands, not only in terms of production but also when it comes to preparation and consumption. We are delighted to be hosting a Netherlands Food Week with Al Maya Group.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Al Maya Group, founded in 1982, is a supermarket chain and FMCG conglomerate that operates more than 50 branches in the GCC countries and employs more than 5,000 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In August, it acquired a majority stake in the online grocery delivery platform\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2022\/07\/15\/conektr-and-triterras-partner-to-support-small-grocery-retailers-in-uae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Conektr<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Netherlands Food Week&#8217; has kicked off at select  Al Maya Supermarkets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":19925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1323,1],"tags":[4267,1507],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20730,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20725\/revisions\/20730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}