The Verder company was founded in 1959, by Andre Verder, as a way to connect industrial buyers with reliable, trustworthy suppliers of the machinery and equipment that they needed. During the 1970s, the shifting geopolitical landscape enabled Verder to expand into markets outside the Netherlands, then into Eastern Europe, and eventually, into Asia, South Africa, and the United States.  Today, Verder and its subsidiaries have a footprint in over 100 countries the world over.