Fruit trade
Fruit trade in the functional sense refers to the economic activity of procurement and / or sales of the fresh fruit and vegetables group of goods , whereby these goods are left in their natural state or are only slightly processed (sorting, packing, etc.).
Explanation
The fresh fruit and vegetables product group also includes potatoes , mushrooms , fresh herbs , aromatic plants and nuts . In contrast, canned fruit and vegetables, frozen fruit and vegetables and dried fruit are not part of the fruit trade.
Fruit trade in the institutional sense comprises those economic units whose economic activity is exclusively or predominantly attributable to the fruit trade in the functional sense. This includes z. B. Wholesale market halls or feeders from fruit and vegetable wholesalers , weekly markets or stall operators at weekly markets, fruit and vegetable shops and farmers' markets for retail .
Self-marketing fruit producer companies and groups, companies that also, but not exclusively, trade in the product group fresh fruit and vegetables (food trade), as well as companies with fresh fruit and vegetable- related services (ripeners, forwarding agents , special packaging companies , etc.) are also used in practice counted to the fruit trade.
Others
The international fruit trade meets once a year at the Fruit Logistica trade fair in Berlin .
The 20 largest fruit trading companies in Germany
Company, country: sales in million euros (2006)
- Groupe Pomona , France: 2412
- Univeg Group, Belgium: 2200
- Fyffes , UK: 1984.8
- Coforta (sales organization: The Greenery ), Netherlands: 1448.4
- Edeka Fruchtkontor , Germany: 1400
- GF Group , Italy: 1200
- Univeg Deutschland , Germany: 1200 (former company name Atlanta Scipio , sold by Chiquita to Univeg in 2008 )
- Groupement Creno , France: 845.5
- Fresca , UK: 484.8
- Bakker Beheer Barendrecht, Netherlands: 475 (taken over from Univeg in 2005)
- Agrial , France: 462
- Groupement Hexagro , France: 458
- Anecoop Sociedad Cooperativa , Spain: 422
- Bonduelle , France: 362
- OGL, Germany: 359
- Cobana Fruchtring , Germany: 352
- Redbridge Holdings , UK: 348
- Capespan International , UK: 346
- Paul Kempowski , Germany: 332 (100% subsidiary of Dole Food Company )
(Source: Oxfam )
See also
literature
- Carsten Gogoll: Possibilities and limits of central procurement in the fruit trade: exemplary presentation and analysis . Wolf, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3924221138 .
- Frank G. Henrich: Top Fruit. A knowledge-based system for the analysis and design of marketing strategies in the fruit trade . DLG-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3769046242 .