Rabobank in business

Sustained autonomous growth is a leading factor in the strategic course that Rabobank Group aims to steer in the coming years. This strategy centres around our core competence: Food & Agribusiness.

In the course of nearly 110 years, Rabobank has grown from a collection of small, cooperative rural banks into the largest all-finance concern in the Netherlands, the world's leading food & agri bank and a globally respected AAA player.

Our strategic framework for 2005-2010 is founded on the following indisputable principles:

Rabobank is and remains:

• Dutch, with its dominant market position based in agribusiness, among private individuals and in small and medium-sized enterprises
• a cooperative, exceptions may only be made for Group subsidiaries
• AAA worthy
• independent.  A complete sale is not an option. In any merger agreement with any other party, Rabobank will accept a majority interest only.         

Three growth areas
The new strategic framework profiles Rabobank as 'the global food & agri bank with its roots in the Netherlands' and in doing so distinguishes three growth areas;

• growth in the Dutch all-finance market, in particular through further collaboration with Eureko/Achmea and through further strengthening of Rabobank's position in the top end of the private and corporate markets
• continued expansion abroad as a leading international food & agri bank
• further growth of and synergy between the Group subsidiaries.