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This Italian company is located in Puglia region and was founded in the early 1900s. At the beginning the company was just focused on finishing and purification of mussels, but today thanks to its experience the company supports the processing and trade of all fish products.
For more than 100 years the company has put its experience at the customer's service by selecting the best live bivalve molluscs and are marketed only after they have been purified and refined in clean salt water tanks. The water supply takes place from the subsoil, the extraction of salt water from the deep aquifer takes place through wells built on the land surrounding the company.
The company owns four boats that go out to sea every day with specialized crews and are equipped - according to European standards - for sustainable fishing, for the processing and storage of local fish on board. The company is well structured, it can also counts on internal Quality and Safety Control group, which follows the product from receipt, with the control of acceptance parameters, and throughout. All the preparation of the orders starts at the company headquarters, where the vehicles are loaded and the shipment is ready. Deliveries are made at a controlled temperature, in sanitized vehicles equipped to maintain the cold chain, in strict compliance with safety standards to offer customers an always excellent service.
The company is looking for partners in Europe. The type of partnership considered is the distribution service agreement (the partner should be specialized in the modern trade and food service).

Advantages & innovations

This group, made up of experts and operators, takes care of staff training by organizing specific courses for each department of the company, making the operators responsible and aware of the hygienic-sanitary requirements and good working practices. Specialized in the commerce of fresh fish fished daily from their own boats through its various typologies (trawl, palancaro, lampara, trammel net, etc.), they guarantee the quality and the freshness of the product. Environmental Certification according to UNI EN ISO 14001: 2015 certificate number: 19941 Certification for Traceability in Agri-food supply chains according to the voluntary standard UNI EN ISO 220005: 2008 / certificate number: P2082 DT 43 Product certification for live bred Bivalve Molluscs (Clams, Mussels, Oysters) / certificate number: P2083

Stage of development

ITALY

Partner sought

They are looking to expande in the international market specially in European countries. The partnership considered is the distribution service agreement: the partner should be specialized in the modern trade and food service. The partner should have existing sales channels to hypermarkets and supermarkets, hotels, restaurants and food service. The company is not interested in an exclusivity clause.