How Is the Spanish Mango Supply Network Formed?

Growers

Many large-scale growers take on an exporting role, possessing their own harvesting, packaging even logistics facilities to maintain the quality standards required for export within the EU.

Other smaller-scale growers market their products through cooperatives and associations.

Small growers without membership to any cooperatives depend almost entirely on wholesale markets (domestic and within the EU)

Central Purchasing centers

Apart from the traditional value chain, Spain is one of the countries in the EU where purchasing centers of major retail chains are located, such as French Carrefour (Socomo), and German companies are also present, including the Metro group with their Valencia Trading Office, Rewe with the Eurogroup España and Edeka with their Fruchtkontor España.

These purchase centers support supply programs of European retail chains.

Supermarkets in Spain do not always work with supply programs. There are many suppliers they can choose from, and they sometimes prefer to work with quotations.

German established purchasing centers in Spain is one of the reasons why exports in Germany is competing with France as one of the biggest, but a channel that we cannot utilize.