Today the company is a large holding with well-developed infrastructure including 4 warehouses situated in St. Petersburg of the total area of 5,700 m² as well as successfully operating branches in Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Rostov. Friend Fruits actively develops partnership relations with the large regional distributors in such regional centres as Moscow, Murmansk, Petrozavodsk, Barnaul, Krasnoyarsk, Chelyabinsk. Flexible pricing system gives customers the possibility to compete with confidence on the regional markets.
Since 2000, as the structure of the retail market has changed, the company started daily supplies of fresh fruit and vegetable products to the largest supermarkets of St. Petersburg. Friend Fruits is a business partner of such famous retail chains as "Magnit", "Lenta", "Diksi", "O'Key".
According to Tantani Hichame, Friend Fruits' chief import manager, the main vegetables imported by the company are potatoes, onions and tomatoes. The potatoes and onions are mainly sourced from the Netherlands and the UK, although the company was importing big volumes this time last year due to the shortage on the domestic market, Mr Tantani does not expect imports to start until March this year. Tomatoes are sourced mainly in Morocco, Belgium, the Netherlands and Poland.
Friend Fruits import large volumes of mandarins and oranges from Morocco, last year the volume was above 350 containers. Peaches and nectarines are also imported from various European counties such as Greece, Italy and Poland.
Friend Fruits will be at Fruit Logistica 2012 in Berlin, Hall 23 Stand F-07
For more information:
Tantani Hichame
Friend Fruits
Phone: +7 (812) 708-76-82
Fax: +7 (812) 324-56-73
E-mail: [email protected]
www.friendfruits.com
Phone: +7 (812) 708-76-82
Fax: +7 (812) 324-56-73
E-mail: [email protected]
www.friendfruits.com