Friesland Foods has opened its revamped plant for the production of demineralised whey products. An expanded production capacity will enable Friesland to respond more effectively to the demand for ...

Dutch power and gas provider Liander – which serves the provinces of Gelderland and Noord-Holland and parts of Flevoland, Friesland and Zuid-Holland – has announced that new grid bottlenecks have ...

Some places reveal themselves with a big dramatic flourish, and that's especially true of Friesland. A mere sixty miles northeast of Amsterdam, the Dutch province is linked to western Holland by the ...

A medieval Viking sword fragment unearthed in Friesland is unique for the Netherlands and one of only two such fragments ever found, the Fries Museum has said. The 10th-century copper pommel cap, ...

We are Jack Sprat and his wife when it comes to holidays. David is a sun-worshipper, while I erupt in a rash in heat and am allergic to enforced inactivity. ‘Go north!’ I bellow; ‘Head south!’ he ...

The Dutch dairy products and fruit drinks group Friesland Foods has reported an 8% profit rise for 2005 to EUR104m (US$123.9m), on sales down 1% at EUR4.4bn. The company attributed the profit rise to ...

Lopik (Netherlands) (AFP) – Summer is here, which also means it’s "fierljeppen" season in the Netherlands – a unique sport that is practised from the Dutch provinces of Friesland to Utrecht.

Digging work for a new lake has turned up hundreds of ancient tree trunks and branches near Oudega in Friesland, part of a primeval forest dating back 6000 years. Locals knew about the wood but ...