At the start of 2023, Vergeer Holland launched its business cycling scheme through Lease a Bike. The fact that, less than a year later, the family business already counts at least a hundred satisfied lease cyclists indicates just how popular the company bike is. After all, the specialist in ripening, cutting, and packaging cheese employs 520 workers. Nearly 1 in 5 already regularly gets on a lease bike. Vergeer Holland didn't expect the company bike to be such a success. Furthermore, it earned them a nomination for the Best Cycling Employer Award 2023.
At the start of 2023, Vergeer Holland launched its business cycling scheme through Lease a Bike. The fact that, less than a year later, the family business already counts at least a hundred satisfied lease cyclists indicates just how popular the company bike is. After all, the specialist in ripening, cutting, and packaging cheese employs 520 workers. Nearly 1 in 5 already regularly gets on a lease bike. Vergeer Holland didn't expect the company bike to be such a success. Furthermore, it earned them a nomination for the Best Cycling Employer Award 2023.
Increased Employee Satisfaction
In Reeuwijk, South Holland, they are doing everything possible to make cycling as appealing as possible. Vergeer Holland encourages the switch to a lease bike by offering an employer contribution. Add the tax benefit that a company bike always offers, and you have an ideal way to increase employee satisfaction. New employees also view a company bike as an important secondary employment benefit. This is not insignificant at a time when good employees are hard to come by.
40 Nationalities
With locations in Reeuwijk, Woerden, and Bodegraven, Vergeer Holland is one of the largest cheese packaging companies in Europe. As many as 40 different nationalities work at the cheese giant. Its staff is so enormously multicultural because the company highly values diversity. All these employees already connect well within the company, but the company bike provides just a little more connection. Employees proudly show off their new bikes to each other and are more likely to cycle to and from work together.
More Exercise
Quite a few employees live within cycling distance, but that is not a requirement to participate in the cycling scheme. Employees can also choose to use the bike only for private rides. Besides the popular e-bikes, people often opt for a convenient cargo bike or a fast sport bike. Vergeer Holland has noticed that more employees have started cycling, are cycling more often, and are covering longer distances. This keeps them fit and healthy. Meanwhile, they are leaving the car at home more often, making Vergeer Holland even more sustainable.
Choosing Convenience
Vergeer Holland finds it important that applying for a company bike is easily accessible. Through the online platform from Lease a Bike, it offers its employees a great deal of convenience. They immediately see which bikes they can choose from and what effect the choice will have on their payslip. In turn, the employer uses the platform to maintain a clear overview of who has a lease bike. In this way, the cycling scheme only offers advantages to the cheese processor. Vergeer Holland took one more step to encourage cycling employees to come to work by bike more often: it invested in a good number of extra charging points for e-bike owners.
