Case Study: The Food Assembly achieves agile European expansion and 4x faster month-end closing with Spendesk

How The Food Assembly remained agile while expanding across Europe

The Food Assembly is a European online platform that connects shoppers with local agricultural producers through 700 weekly "hives" across nine countries. As the company scaled, expense management became chaotic—employees shared eight company cards, up to half of receipts were missing, and regional and HQ spending lacked traceability—so The Food Assembly evaluated payment solutions and chose Spendesk for its payment and expense validation features, notably single‑use virtual cards and physical Spendesk cards.

Spendesk rolled out virtual single‑use cards, subscription cards and plastic cards with real‑time visibility and rapid support, enabling regional independence and tighter controls. The implementation now supports around 480 monthly payments, more than 50 regular virtual‑card users and 30 plastic‑card users, with 95% of invoices retrieved, end‑of‑month closing reported 4x faster and full visibility—receipts are recovered automatically, expense reports have been eliminated, and finance teams reclaimed time for higher‑value work thanks to Spendesk.

The Food Assembly

Gaëlle Laudet

Financial Controller