Valora’s food service format BackWerk is entering into a franchise partnership in the Netherlands with HMSHost International. By the end of 2022, 12 HMSHost International locations at the large Dutch train stations are to be converted into BackWerk stores. This increases the number of stores in the Netherlands to around 45. The first location to be converted into a BackWerk store operated by HMSHost International as franchisee will open in July 2021 at Utrecht Central Station, the large train station in the Netherlands. Later this year, new BackWerk stores will follow at Rotterdam Central Station and Station Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA. The conversion of 9 additional stores at Dutch train stations is planned in 2022. The partnership with HMSHost International, the global market leader in the food and hospitality industry for people on the move, will see the expansion of BackWerk’s footprint in the Netherlands to around 45 stores.