Three generations of the Bos family will celebrate an important milestone in Anloo next Saturday. Their ABZ slaughterhouse has reached the milestone of sixty years. And that is certainly worth celebrating, with all the staff: thirty men and women in total. Because the craft of the self-slaughter butcher is dying out. So the fact that their catering slaughterhouse is still there is ‘quite special’, they think.
Founder grandfather Arie Bos is 80 years old. “And one month,” he adds with a grin. Arie beams with pride that his ‘butcher’s boy’ has reached the age of sixty. “No, never thought, but hoped of course. Fifty years was already nice, but now another ten years, and my grandson Sander in the profession, I think it’s wonderful.”
The foundation for the ABZ slaughterhouse was laid sixty years ago by Arie Bos, in his then hometown of Zuidlaren. Hence ABZ. “I started a small slaughterhouse on the Zuidlaarderweg, in a shed behind the house. But in 1973 I was able to buy a piece of the dairy factory in Anloo, which had then become empty. And since then it has grown from a company with ten employees to thirty. “My son Erwin has the business well organized,” says a proud Arie.
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