For 20 years, Mariëlle van der Keur has been winning tender after tender

Mariëlle van der Keur was not necessarily destined to become a pioneer in the world of tenders, or public procurement. "No, yuck! I hated all those rules and frameworks," she recalls from her time as sales manager for an IT giant. Still...

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P Oosterle school BOIDR Charity

BOIDR+ donors raise 4,000 euros for kindergartners at P. Oosterleeschool

Bij Ons In De Residentie (BOIDR) was privileged on Thursday to hand over a cheque for €4,000 to director Mariska Wubben and some preschoolers of the P. Oosterleeschool, a primary school in Moerwijk with children from all over the world and from different cultures. (text continues below...

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Bij Ons In De Residentie Launch Edition 2022 Blue Blood Hilton The Hague

Eleventh launch BOIDR: drinks and catching up

Some two hundred people attended the launch of Bij Ons In De Residentie (BOIDR) at BlueBlood The Hague restaurant of the Hilton on Thursday 24 November. A room full of people who love the good, Hague life. Because that's what the 11th edition is all about...

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Maasstede Robert and Tim Nederlof

Maasstede's Brazilian dream

Lange Voorhout 44 has always been one of the chicest addresses in The Hague: Constantijn Huygens lived there, members of the Supreme Court and noblemen, and from its beginnings from 1918-1985 the exclusive restaurant Royal welcomed its equally distinguished guests, including the royal family....

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Brückel Advertising can send you a message

Advertising in the Yellow Pages has given way to ads on Google and the drawing board to Photoshop, but the no-nonsense Hague-based agency Brückel Reclame has stood the test of time since 1969. Six years ago, striking founder Peter Brückel handed over the keys to the thriving...

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'At ordinary banks, personal attention is increasingly disappearing'

Building a personal relationship with clients. That is the beauty of the wealth management profession, thinks Marian Dessing, the managing director of InsingerGilissen on Alexanderstraat. "We listen, think along and help make financial goals come true. On a driveway lined with lush green...

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Hague broker Avenir Roos Ouderdorp

Avenir offers tenants new future in DekkersDuin

Bohemen en Meer & Bos is a green neighbourhood where time seems to have stood still. But even in this enclave between Kijkduin and Shopping Centre De Savornin Lohmanplein, the 21st century is ticking by. Behind the few neighbourhood shops of its own, there is now, in Campanula Street, a modern...

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de Wittenburg castle

De Wittenburg: get away from it all a stone's throw from the city

Kasteel de Wittenburg has long since ceased to be the inward-looking gentlemen's club of days gone by. Ralf Meppelder, director of the nineteenth-century mansion for almost a decade, literally opened the windows and doors there for hundreds of large and smaller gatherings every year. From weddings to...

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Drost Juten The Hague

Goodbye jacket-tie and ivory tower: these notaries reinvented the profession

Mourning and wedding, buying a house, starting a business: big moments in a person's life involve the notary. "Often people find it quite exciting, even when there is something to celebrate," says Germaine Olde Heuvelt-von Bannisseht, with Remko Oude Hengel

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erwin van Lambaart

Erwin van Lambaart is leaving Holland Casino

He loves colourful works of art. But that is not the only reason why the Herman Brood painting hangs in the study of Erwin van Lambaart (Rotterdam, 1963) in Hoofddorp. The five male figures on the canvas with black bow ties and jacquets stare intently at the stream of playing cards flying by. Above...

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