(West side 103). This food factory was founded in 1886 by E.G. Verkade as Steam Bread and Rusk factory 'De Ruyter'. When bread production was discontinued in 1919, they had already switched to the production of biscuits, tea lights (1898), biscuits (1911), and confectionery (1918). Later followed chocolate, pretzels and crispbread (1960).
Aan de Zaan is the biscuit factory from 1886, a two-tier neo-Renaissance building designed by P. Kleiweg Dyserinck (expanded 1895, partly increased in 1912). The bakery, which was added in 1906, has rationalistic and Art Nouveau details and features a relief show with a trumpeting rider and a tile tableau with the text 'Verkade'. The biscuit factory built in 1903-'05 east of the biscuit factory is a rationalistic design by H.G. Jansen. On the Zaan side is a large square sprinkler tower with the text 'Rusk', 'Koekfabriek' and 'Verkade'.
On the other side of the West side is the new biscuit factory from 1927, an elongated two-layer building designed by L. and P. Molenaar in a business-expressionistic style with steel grid windows. The biscuit factory (1931) and the chocolate factory (1936-'37), designed in functionalist style by A. Eibink and J.A. Rapid fire (extended 1950-'52). The square water tower with sprinkler system at the biscuit factory has a surrounding balcony with the company name all over in large letters.
