Spanish family owed SME from Lleida (Catalonia) established in 1879, specialized in the manufacture of high-quality honey and handmade turron. The company is a leading brand in Catalonian supermarkets. The company has extensive experience in the honey-making process and has also developed innovation flavors that have positioned the company in the gourmet channel.
The company products portfolio includes more than 100 references:
- regular bottled honey (monoflower and gourmet)
- bottled honey with ingredients and different flavors (orange peel, lemon peel, ginger, almond, hazelnuts, cacao, cinnamon etc.)
- in bulk honey
-organic honey
-pollen
-honeycomb
-nougat (soft and hard)
-mediterranean nuts
- honey candies
- vinegar
-gift packs
The company is looking to expand its market sales force in the following markets, USA, Europe, China, Japan, South Korea. The company is looking for a reliable distributor with salesforce in supermarket chains, as the product is mostly ecological it is important that the distributor has also contact Bio supermarkets. The SME is also open to manufacturing agreements if the business partner requires packaging and marketing with its own brand, and sell as white label.
Advantages & innovations
-Awarded products: great taste awards
-European Union Biological certificate by the Catalan Council of the Organic Production (EU BIO-CCPAE)
-Large experience (from 1879)
-Attractive packaging
-Large product portfolio with more than 100 references (polyflora,rosemary,thyme,orange,lemon, eucalyptus, acacia)
Innovative honey flavors (chestnut, lavender, cacao, turmerie, hazelnuts, walnuts)
Stage of development
Already on the market
Partner sought
The company is looking for a non-exclusive distributor in USA, UE, Japan, China and South Korea with knowledge of the organic market to establish a long- term collaboration. The partner must have salesforce in biological (BIO) supermarkets, targeting gourmet products and a wide distribution network in the domestic market. The SME will provide promotional material to the distributor (catalogs, samples etc). The company has its own brand and will make efforts to market its brand abroad, so does not expect marketing efforts from the partner.
The company is also open to change the labeling of their products, and sell as a white label through a manufacturing agreement. The SME can label by their own products and offer different packaging requested by the client.
Detailed terms of the collaboration, as frequency, payments, volumes, transport are subject to the individual independent sales agreement.