My aim is to bring the Italian chestnuts b2b trade to a new stage, where quality, volumes and programmes are managed at a higher level of skill and guarantee

Italian Chestnuts

2012: a tough season for Italian chestnuts

• The Italian chestnut industry faced two major challenges during the 2012 season: the summer drought and the gall wasp.

• Many traditional packers had to drastically reduce their volumes, others had to close down their operation due to a lack of volumes.

A new wave

• We can offer consistent supply from major Italian chestnuts specialists, bringing a new wave of professionalism into the business. The current customer base includes all main Italian and UK supermarkets.

• Volumes of fresh chesnuts and marrons have steadily increased in the last years to 14,000 tons in 2012.

Keys to growth The growth is based on simple milestones:• a constructive approach to develop customer loyalty based on

shared strategies about quality, availability and prices;• own chestnuts and marrons farms;• a national network of growers centered around storage and

collection facilities in all main Italian growing areas;• one-site centralized packaging operations in the North of Italy;• long term storage to cover the spring business (January to March);• only water treatment on conventional chestnuts, no chemicals used;• NOP certified organic crops;• an integrated production flow which includes semi-finished products

(deep frozen peeled chestnuts and marrons) and finished products (prepacked fresh and dry chestnuts, glaze marrons);

• partnerships with growers and packers in the main European growing areas.

We are open to new trading partners

We are open to new trading partners for fresh chestnuts who:

• can develop a relationship based on long-term mutual development;

• need a strong supply partner to back up their quality and volume commitments for supermarket programmes;

• require a guaranteed flow of produce from the beginning of October onward;

• are looking to a modern and professional partner for Italian chestnuts.

Contacts

Thomas Drahorad (Business development)

English, italiano, español, francais, DeutschLinkedin profile thomas@ncx.itTel. +39-059-7863815 skype thodra

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