Case Study: Hero Group achieves faster, resilient global healthy-food delivery with Equinix digital infrastructure platform

Hero Group accelerates good, natural food delivery via Equinix digital infrastructure platform to delight its customers

Hero Group, a global food supplier of brands like Hero, Schwartau and Beech‑Nut, needed to move from a traditional IT model to a more agile, reliable and cost‑effective digital‑first operation to support global expansion, faster M&A onboarding, supplier integration and sustainability goals. With offices and production across five continents, the company required greater infrastructure flexibility, automated IT services, optimized networks and high availability for its hybrid IT environment.

Hero deployed hyperconverged infrastructure in Equinix IBX data centers (Amsterdam and Frankfurt) and used Equinix Fabric, Equinix Internet Access and Smart Hands to create redundant, low‑latency interconnection, scalable bandwidth and managed remote support. The result: infrastructure and interconnection deployed in weeks instead of months, 24/7 resilient and secure operations, faster access to cloud services and partners, improved cost efficiency and a more future‑proof, sustainability‑aligned platform ready for further cloud migrations and rapid M&A integration.

Hero Group

Bas Dijkhuizen

Head of Competence Center Infrastructure