{"id":49978,"date":"2025-02-19T14:51:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T13:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sneeboer.ratiodesign.dev\/?page_id=49978"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:34:10","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sneeboer.com\/en\/history","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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History<\/h1>\n\n\n

The rich history of Sneeboer through the years. See and read how we once started and where we are now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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2016 – 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The webshop is launched, solar panels are put in place and the 4th generation takes over<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2010 – 2016<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sneeboer becomes “Royal Court Supplier” during our 100 year anniversary and the workshop is expanded again<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Royal Sneeboer since 2012<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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1997 – 2009<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Production is scaled up and Sneeboer tools are found on more and more European garden shows<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1992 – 1996<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The purchase of the Van Driel brand pushes sales and therefore a new workshop has to be built to be able to produce the tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1985 – 1991<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A new direction is chosen when Jaap Sneeboer and Wilma Peelen take over the company<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1975 – 1984<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The third generation takes over and the company gets its first big order from a foreign country<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First big order from a foreign country<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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1969 – 1975<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The global oil crisis leads to many uncertainties, but the company manages to grow anyway<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1969<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Arie Sneeboer passes away on the 15th of September 1969 when he was 83 years old<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Room for growth \u2013 six times more production space<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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1956 – 1969<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Three of Arie\u2019s sons take over the company<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1951 – 1956<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Production and sale of stainless steel garden tools<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1950<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First order of stainless steel plate and welding electrodes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1920 – 1949<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Interwar period<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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