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Founded in Macedonia in 1992, the Macedonian company produces and sells wheat flour and baked goods made from hand-stretched thin dough layers. These pies were traditionally made in households and local bakeries centuries ago, and are distinctive for the uniqueness of the production process, texture, flavor, and the region’s cultural heritage. The company’s diversified product portfolio consists of wheat flour as well as the traditionally handmade baked goods named as “Burek pie" in Macedonian language, and has the following structure:

• Filo pies: a traditional handmade pie named as “Burek” that is stuffed with cheese/spinach and cheese/leeks and cheese/meat, set in the following packages in grams:
- 420 gr. retail package
- 1150 gr. retail package
- 1150 gr. food service package

• Filo twist pies: a traditional handmade twisted pie named as “Burek” available stuffed with cheese/spinach and cheese/leeks and cheese/meat, set in the following packages in grams:
- 440 gr. retail package
- 900 gr. retail package
- 900 gr. food service package

• Mini twirled filo pies: a traditional handmade pie names as "Burek" in mini version, available stuffed with cheese/spinach and cheese/leeks and cheese/meat, set in the following packages in grams:
- 660 gr retail package (6 pcs x 110 gr)
- 5760 gr food service package (36 pcs of 160 gr)

• Filo bites: handmade filo bites available in sour version (stuffed with cheese/spinach and cheese/leeks and cheese) as well as sweet version (vanilla cream/apple and cinnamon/sour cherry/chocolate cream filling), set in the following packages in grams:
- 300 gr retail package (10 pcs x 30 gr)
- 600 gr retail package (20 pcs x 30 gr) - sour version only
- 4200 gr food service package (140 pcs x 300 gr)

• Mantija: handmade pastry balls available stuffed with fresh cheese or meat, set in the following packages in grams:
- 650 gr retail package
- 1350 gr retail package

• Wheat flour type 400, regular and extra white (1kg, 2kg, 5kg, 25kg)
• Wheat flour type 500, special purpose for croissants (25kg)
• Wheat flour, regular and high-gluten, special purpose for Burek, Pizza and other pastries (25kg)
• Wheat flour, whole wheat (1kg, 5kg, 25kg)

Being present on the domestic and foreign market for almost thirty years, the company has established itself as a successful fusion of tradition and contemporary quality standards serving a diversified market of numerous nationalities and cultures. Inspired by the region’s gastronomic roots and driven by the vision of reaching the foreign lands of not only the customers that have already encountered the products but also the ones yet to be familiarized, the company aims to expand its presence on the global market, promoting its brand as a symbol of proficient production and sanitary practice. For this purpose they are in search of international partners to establish distribution services agreement in order to:
- connect with other production or sales companies that would be interested in the company’s different types of wheat flour; and
- facilitate further brand expansion to wider existent and new market segments.

Advantages & innovations

• The company uses one of the most up-to-date laboratories on the Balkans, a Brabender technology, in order to ensure the quality of the products and carry out analysis of the physical, chemical and rheological characteristics of the different types of wheat and wheat flours, creating complete solutions for the mill-baking industry. • A handcrafted production of a variety of an authentic, common and well-known traditional filo pies named in Macedonian language as “burek”, creating an offer of a unique product that is famous for its cultural background, yet is not mass-produce in automated high-capacity factories. • Private labels for Belgium and Canada prove the company’s ambition and readiness for global expansion, individual and customized approach to different foreign markets, as well as flexibility to specific segments demand.

Stage of development

Already on the market

Partner sought

The potential partner should be a company of any size that would contribute to the increase of sales of the wheat flour by bringing it closer to food producing and high-demand hospitality companies, as well as companies that would support the brand promotion via sales and events conducted through supermarkets, store chains, specialized shops, hotels, restaurants, cafes, catering services companies, public or private organizations from the educational or health sector, etc.